Lithgow, Marion Irene, 1901-1992

Marion Irene Lithgow was born on February 20, 1901 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Her father was John A. Lithgow, a storekeeper. She entered Mount Holyoke College in September 1918 after graduating from Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire. Upon graduating from Mount Holyoke in June 1922 with a degree in chemistry, she taught math at Sanborn Academy in East Kingston, New Hampshire. In the summer of the following year she attended Harvard University Summer School. She then taught high school math and English in Stonington, Connecticut. From 1924-1925, she attended Boston University and received her M.A. and from 1925-1936 she taught math, science, and history at the Girls' Latin High School in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1967 she began dividing her time between a summer home in Ocean Bluff, Massachusetts and a winter home in Venice, Florida. She died in Venice, Florida at the age of ninety-one on June 16, 1992.

From the guide to the Lithgow papers MS 0683., 1920-1992, 1920-1922, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)