DE KR0YFT, Sarah Helen, author, born near Rochester, New York, 29 October 1818. Her maiden name was Aldrich. She obtained a good education by teaching in winter and attending school in summer for seven years. Her attainments included French, Italian, and the higher mathematics. She was graduated at Lima, New York, seminary, and in 1845 married Dr. William De Kroyft, of Rochester, who died on his wedding day of injuries received in falling from a carriage. Within the month following she awoke one morning to find her sight entirely gone. She spent a year or two at the New York institution for the blind, with the intention of becoming an organist, and while there began to write for newspapers and periodicals. In 1850 she published a collection of letters under the title "A Place in My Memory," nearly 200,000 copies of which have been sold. She has traveled extensively in the United States. About 1865 she added Latin to the list of her acquisitions, and a few years later entered the lecturefield with a discourse on "Darwin and Moses," which has been repeatedly delivered in the principal cities, and many of the larger villages, of New York. Her most successful sketch is "Little Jakey," a true story of a blind boy (New York, 1871). She has never recovered her sight.