Ivy May Bolton was born in London on May 18, 1879. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when her family came to the United States, settling in New York. She graduated in 1898 from St. Gabriel's School, Peekskill, and in 1901 entered the training class of the New York Public Library and worked at the Bruce Branch until 1908. Miss Bolton taught at the Brearley School in New York in 1909 and 1910, leaving there to become librarian at St. Mary’s School, Peekskill, New York. In 1911 she entered the Community of St. Mary (Episcopal). She took the name Sister Mercedes and made her life vows on August 18, 1914. She taught at St. Mary’s, Peekskill; St. Katharine's, Davenport, Iowa; Kemper Hall, Kenosha, Wisconsin; and Mount St. Mary's, Sewanee, Tennessee. She also worked at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside, New York. She died at the Motherhouse in Peekskill on May 9, 1961. Daughter of https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... Sister of https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...