The author of the nursery rhyme ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' is Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. She published her book in 1830.
The inventor of the phonograph was Thomas Edison. He recited the stanza of the poem ''Mary Had a Little Lamb'' to test his invention in 1877.
Mary Sawyer lived in Sterling, Massachusetts. She kept a pet lamb and one day she went to school and her little lamb followed her.