McCollester, Elizabeth Parker, 1865-1928

Civic leader; President, Twentieth Century Club; President, Boston Smith Club; Intellectual.

Born Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Southgate Parker in Claremont, New Hampshire, 1865. Received A.B. Smith College, 1888; married Lee McCollester, Universalist minister, and they moved to Detroit where she founded the Twentieth Century Club; helped organize the Michigan Smith College Club; and was a charter member of the Fine Arts Society of Detroit. In 1912 Lee McCollester became Dean of the Crane Theology School at Tufts College and they moved to Medford, Massachusetts. She was active in the Boston Smith College Club and the Medford Shakespeare Club. Lizzie Parker McCollester died in Medford, Mass., 1928.