Mary W.M. Hargreaves, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mary W.M. Hargreaves

U.S. agricultural history scholar

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1914

Place of Birth: Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 29-Aug-2008

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Mary W.M. Hargreaves

  • Mary Wilma Massey Hargreaves (March 1, 1914 – August 29, 2008), a scholar of U.S.
  • agricultural history, was the first woman at the University of Kentucky to reach the rank of full professor in the Department of History.
  • Her areas of research included the agricultural history of the Northern Great Plains, dry land agriculture and land utilization.
  • She was a Brookings Institution scholar, editor of the Henry Clay Papers and served in leadership roles in the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association; in 1975 was elected president of the Agricultural History Society.
  • She also served as a local and state officer in the American Association of University Women.

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