Jerome, Jennie Gilbert, 1888-1979

Jennie Gilbert Jerome was born May 15, 1888 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the eldest of two children of Yuan Phou Lee of Canton, China, a Yale University graduate and professional lecturer, and Elizabeth Maude Jerome of New Haven. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she and her brother, Gilbert Nelson Jerome, were raised by her mother and grandmother, Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, in New Haven. She attended private grammar schools and New Haven High School, then went to Mount Holyoke College in 1907 where she majored in art and English literature and received a B.A. degree in 1911. She continued her study of art at Yale School of Fine Arts from 1911-1914. In 1917 she began working in the Dixwell Branch Library in New Haven. In 1922 she transferred to the Main Branch Library in New Haven and became the Art and Music Librarian. She retired in 1952. From 1911-1973 she was Class Scribe for the Mount Holyoke Class of 1911. She was a supporter of the College in many other ways, donating funds, furnishings, and paintings to the school. She died on August 22, 1979 at the age of ninety-one at her home in New Haven.

From the guide to the Jerome papers MS 0615., 1907-1979, 1907-1911, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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