Sarah P. Burnham (c.1823-1896) was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. She devoted her life to charitable work in Boston and for over thirty years was a missionary in the City of Boston's Public Institutions Department. She worked with former female inmates of the Deer Island House of Industry, later named Deer Island Prison, advising them and securing employment for them. She was also the half-sister of Julia M. Burnham, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's.

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