Achsa White Sprague — a remark

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“I have no desire to live merely for the sake of living, but I do desire to live to do good, to be useful to my fellow beings.”

Expressing a deep sense of purpose and commitment to serving others · Autobiographical notes / diary

About Achsa White Sprague

Achsa White Sprague

17 November 1827–6 July 1862

Achsa White Sprague was born on 17 November 1827 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, a small mountain community whose austere beauty and close social fabric helped form her imagination. She died there on 6 July 1862, only thirty-four years old by the modern method of counting age, though many nineteenth-century notices…

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