Anne Kendrick Benedict

Anne Kendrick Benedict was born to Asahel Clark and Anne Elizabeth (Hopkins) Kendrick in Rochester, New York.[3] Anne Kendrick has one known sister, Florence. At the age of 15, Anne Kendrick attended Elmira Female College in Elmira, New York, obtaining a B.A in 1870. At her graduation, Anne Kendrick gave a commencement speech entitled Demosthenes and St. Paul.[1]

Benedict married Wayland Benedict[4] in 1873 and then moved to Cincinnati between July 1875 and December 1878. The Benedicts had six children: Mary, Wayland Clark, Howard, Florence, Stanley Rossiter Benedict, and Agnes.[5] Their son Stanley became a noted chemist and discovered the Benedict's reagent. She attended what is now the Morning Star Baptist Church while living in Cincinnati.

She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1922.[6]

Anne Kendrick Benedict was a writer of children's science and religious literature. Her most famous story, My Wonder-Story,[7] was published by the Lothrop Company in 1888 and is about a mother who explores the anatomy and physiology of the human body with her children Jack and Florence.[8] Another of her more popular publications includes The Hathaways' Sister, "a girl's [baptist] book about girls who are not unnaturally good nor bad."[9] Some of her other works include Centa, The Child Violinist,[10] The Island Story,[11] The Fisherman's Daughter,[11] The Enchanted Deer,[12] The Home Circle (published April 18, 1883),[13] and How We Are Made (published April 11, 1883).[14]