Claim: Sophia joined her father in Baltimore (the most populous city in the U.S.), contributing to the Southern Review and beginning a school for girls and she became a frequent contributor of articles, writing as Mrs S. B. Herrick, and was for a time assistant editor to Richard Watson Gilder at Century.
Evidence: state]] of Maryland, as well as the 30th most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 593,490 in 2019.