Haynes, Frances E., 1870-1958

Frances E. Haynes was born on September 15, 1870 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to Stillman Haynes and Harriet M. Kimball Haynes. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1895. After graduating she taught at Ayer (Massachusetts) High School until November of 1896. From 1896-1897 Haynes attended the New York State Library School in Albany, New York. She was Head Librarian at the Levi Heywood Memorial Library in Gardner, Massachusetts from 1897-1901 and from 1901-1936 she served as Assistant Librarian at Mount Holyoke College. During that time she took several leaves of absence to travel in Europe in 1906, the Southern United States in 1923-1924, and California in 1932. Haynes was responsible for soliciting faculty and alumnae donations for the completion of the additions to Mount Holyoke College's library in 1935 and for naming the main entrance hall to the library after College Librarian Bertha Blakely. At her retirement in 1936 she was granted the title Assistant Librarian Emeritus. Throughout her life she was an active member of the Class of 1895, attending reunions and holding class office. She was also a member of the Springfield, Massachusetts Alumnae Club and of the American Library Association. In 1937 she moved to Nashua, New Hampshire where she died at the age of eighty-eight on May 3, 1958.