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Barbara Gilson was born in Lexington, Massachusetts on February 8, 1925 to Royal Gilson, a bank examiner, and Ruth Caddell Gilson. She attended Lexington High School and entered Mount Holyoke College in 1942. She received her B.A. in 1945 with a major in history. She was one of the members of the Class of 1946 who accelerated her course of study to graduate a year early. She attended Radcliffe Secretarial School in 1953. She worked for the Boston Public Library from 1942-1953, as a secretary at Standish, Ayer & Myer, Inc. in Boston from 1953-1954 and at Vectron, Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1954-1955, and as an administrative assistant for The Terrell Corporation in Wilmington, Massachusetts from 1955-1965. She then worked as administrative secretary for Symmes Hospital in Arlington, Massachusetts. In 1969 she was working as executive secretary at Waltham Hospital (Waltham, Massachusetts).

From the guide to the Barbara Gilson papers MS 0805., 1912, 1942-1947, 1942-1945, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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