Jackson, Elisabeth Averill, 1909-1991

Elisabeth Rose Averill was born on April 6, 1909, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She attended Kemper Hall in Wisconsin, and graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1931. She received an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1934. On December 26, 1934 she married Wesley Elmore Jackson, a political scientist at Yale. Together they had two daughters, Karen and Gail, and Karen Jackson Williams graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1961. Elisabeth Averill Jackson died on October 19, 1991 in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

From the guide to the Jackson papers MS 0558., [ca. 1928]-1991., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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