Thompson, Anna Boynton, 1848-1923.

Anna Boynton Thompson was born in 1848 in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Harriot Boynton (Sawyer) and William A. Thompson. She attended Radcliffe College between 1884 and 1902, receiving her A.B. in 1898 and her A.M. in 1899. Anna Boynton Thompson was a teacher of Greek and history at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts, until her retirement in 1920. Her book, Unity in Fichte's System, was published in 1895 in the Radcliffe College Monograph Series. She, her sister Mary Frances Thompson, and her mother Harriot Boynton Thompson, left their estates to Radcliffe College. In 1958, the funds were used to construct a wing of the Cronkhite Graduate Center, named for Harriot Boynton Thompson.

From the description of Papers, 1834-1895 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009000

Educator and student of philosophy, Thompson taught at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Mass., for 44 years, many of them as chairman of the history department. During this time, she also continued her education at Radcliffe (B.A., 1898, M.A., 1899) and received an honorary D. Lit degree from Tufts University (1900). In 1895 Thompson published The Unity of Fichte's Doctrine of Knowledge. She was the daughter of William A. and Harriot Boynton Thompson, who lived in Iowa in the 1840s and 1850s; her mother later worked at the Boston Children's Friend Society and ran a boarding house for schoolteachers.

From the description of Papers, 1842-1960 (inclusive), 1862-1935 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122576299