Currier, Margaret, 1910-1998

Librarian. Born in Cambridge, Mass. July 8, 1910, daughter of Thomas Franklin and Florence (Wyman) Currier. Graduated from Mount Holyoke College 1931 with a B.A. in German. Received a B.A.L.S. from the University of Michigan in 1935. Worked as a cataloguer at Yale University Library, 1931-1939; Curator of the Catalog at the Harvard College Library, 1939-1945; and as a librarian at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University, 1945-1974. Died March 11, 1998 in Concord, Mass.

From the description of Papers 1909, 1928-1998 1928-1938. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 42830342

Margaret Currier was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 8, 1910, to Thomas Franklin Currier and Florence Wyman Currier. Her father was the Associate Librarian of Harvard University. She attended Belmont High School in Belmont, Massachusetts, from 1923-1927. She entered Mount Holyoke College in 1927 and graduated with her B.A. degree in German in 1931. She received her B.A.L.S. (Library Science) from the University of Michigan in 1935. She also took graduate courses at Yale University from 1934 to 1936, and at Harvard University in 1944. From 1931-1934, Currier worked as an Assistant Cataloguer at Yale University library. From 1936-1939, she worked as the Cataloguer in Yale University library. She worked as the Curator of the Catalog at the Harvard College Library from 1939-1945. From 1945 until her retirement in 1974, Currier was a librarian in the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She died on March 11, 1998, in Concord, Massachusetts at the age of eighty-seven.

From the guide to the Currier papers MS 0713., 1909, 1928-1998, 1928-1938, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)