ALMY FAMILY

For a history of the Almy family, see the inventory for MC 235. The fifth of six children of Charles Almy and Helen Jackson (Cabot) Almy, Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall was born on August 28, 1892, in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. In 1915 she married Stanley Cobb, a neuropsychiatrist who in 1934 founded the psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital. During the 1930s EACH became interested in child psychiatry and from 1943 until 1955 worked as a psychotherapist at the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Following SC's death in 1967, she married Francis Cooley Hall, a specialist in arthritis and related diseases; he died in 1973. EACH died in March 1984.

From the guide to the Additional papers, 1832-1984, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)