Katharine May Edwards

Katharine May Edwards
A middle-aged white woman with grey hair, wearing an academic gown with a corsage pinned to the front
Katharine May Edwards, from the 1915 yearbook of Wellesley College
BornMay 10, 1862
Cortland, New York
DiedMay 21, 1952
Woodbury, Connecticut
Occupation(s)College professor, classicist

Katharine May Edwards (May 10, 1862 – May 21, 1952) was an American college professor and classicist.

Early life

Edwards was born in Cortland, New York,[1] the daughter of Timothy Edwards and Hulda Ann Uptegrove Edwards.[2] She earned a bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1888. She had a fellowship in Greek at Bryn Mawr College from 1888 to 1889, and completed doctoral studies at Cornell in 1895.[3][4] Later in life she was president of the Cornell Women's Club of Boston.[5]

Career

Edwards taught Greek and comparative philology at Wellesley College from 1889 until her retirement in 1928.[4][6] She was president of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter in Massachusetts,[7] and an active member of the American Philological Association.[8][9] She was vice-president of the Wellesley Golf Club.[10][11]

Edwards was a member of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for thirty years, from 1922 to 1952, and a member of the executive committee from 1922 to 1927. After she retired from Wellesley, she catalogued over 10,000 coins found in the excavations at Corinth.[1] Her efforts resulted in Coins, 1896-1929, a 1933 report.[12] She wrote an updated report on the coins found at Corinth for Hesperia in 1937.[13]

Personal life

Edwards died in 1952, aged 90 years, in Woodbury, Connecticut.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c McCarthy, Barbara P. (1953). "In Memoriam: Katharine May Edwards" (PDF). American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 72nd Annual Report: 14.
  2. ^ Twitchell, Mary Adelaide Edwards (1947). The Edwards family in the Chenango country, by Mary Edwards Twitchell and Richard Henry Edwards. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Lisle, N.Y., 1947. p. 80.
  3. ^ "Alumni Notes". Cornell Alumni News. 23: 499. August 1921.
  4. ^ a b Palmieri, Patricia Ann (1997-02-27). In Adamless Eden: The Community of Women Faculty at Wellesley. Yale University Press. pp. 79, 83. ISBN 978-0-300-06388-2.
  5. ^ "Cornell Women's Clubs". The Cornell Women's Review. 1: 156. January 1916.
  6. ^ Palmieri, Patricia A. (1983). "Here Was Fellowship: A Social Portrait of Academic Women at Wellesley College, 1895-1920". History of Education Quarterly. 23 (2): 195–214. doi:10.2307/368159. ISSN 0018-2680. JSTOR 368159.
  7. ^ Wellesley College, Legenda (1910 yearbook): 182.
  8. ^ "Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association Held at Haverford, Pa., December, 1914 Also of the May and November Meetings of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Held Respectively at Seattle, Washington, and San Francisco, California 1914". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 45: i–ci. 1914. doi:10.2307/282695. ISSN 0065-9711. JSTOR 282695.
  9. ^ "Meeting of Linguists". The Boston Globe. 1894-12-26. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-09-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "'The Rivals' Presented". The Boston Globe. 1901-12-08. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-09-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Brief sports item". Boston Evening Transcript. 1905-10-24. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-09-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Edwards, Katharine M.; Chase, George H.; Fowler, Harold N.; Robinson, David. M. (1933). "Coins, 1896-1929". Corinth. 6: iii–172. doi:10.2307/4390659. ISSN 1558-7185. JSTOR 4390659.
  13. ^ Edwards, Katharine M. (1937). "Report on the Coins Found in the Excavations at Corinth during the Years 1930-1935". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 6 (2): 241–256. doi:10.2307/146520. ISSN 0018-098X. JSTOR 146520.