Doolittle, Phyllis Johnson, 1913-1998

Phyllis E. Johnson was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 3, 1913, the daughter of Swedish immigrants Justus Johnson and Walborg Falk. She had two siblings: Estelle and Justus. The family later moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Johnson attended Connecticut College, and later earned a degree from Barnard College. She married Dr. Howard D. Doolittle (1910-1995), a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, around 1933, and they lived in Stamford, Connecticut. Phyllis Johnson Doolittle died on November 29, 1998.

From the guide to the Phyllis Johnson diary, Johnson, Phyllis diary, 1925-1929, 1925, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)