Margaret Storrs Grierson papers at Smith College
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Margaret Storrs Grierson papers at Smith College
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Posted: 17 Nov 2008 3:43PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Storrs, Cooper, Rankin, and Barnes
I have no connection to the Storrs family, but I ran across these papers when I was researching at Smith.
Anyone researching the Storrs family--there is a treasure trove of family information in the Margaret Storrs Grierson papers at Smith College. Born in 1900, Margaret was an archivist at Smith from about 1930-1965. She also had a PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr, so she was quite an educated person.
After her retirement, she turned her attention to family papers that had come to her through her father. She spent 20 years or more writing an extensive history of the Storrs family and its ancestors including the Cooper, Rankin and Barnes families.
From the biographical blurb: "Mrs. Grierson said she was not interested in genealogy but in the documented historical facts of these families, their movements and lives in the United States." Ha--sounds like genealogy to me!
Anyone researching the Storrs family--there is a treasure trove of family information in the Margaret Storrs Grierson papers at Smith College. Born in 1900, Margaret was an archivist at Smith from about 1930-1965. She also had a PhD in philosophy from Bryn Mawr, so she was quite an educated person.
After her retirement, she turned her attention to family papers that had come to her through her father. She spent 20 years or more writing an extensive history of the Storrs family and its ancestors including the Cooper, Rankin and Barnes families.
From the biographical blurb: "Mrs. Grierson said she was not interested in genealogy but in the documented historical facts of these families, their movements and lives in the United States." Ha--sounds like genealogy to me!