Irene E. Newhouse was born 15 April 1951, in New York City. She has six degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, all of them in chemistry. She works in computational bio-medical research. When her father's cousin died in 1989, she left her family several hundred photos, nearly all of which are unlabeled. That was when she started the research on her family. She decided to document everything she could, before more information was irretrievably lost. She started with her mother's family, where there was more information.
From the guide to the Irene E. Newhouse Collection, 1932-2005, bulk 1980-2002, (Leo Baeck Institute)