Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924

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Martha Foote Crow, educator and writer, was born in 1854 in Sackets Harbor, New York, the daughter of the Reverend John B. and Mary Pendexter (Stilphen) Foote. She received a Ph.D. in 1885 from Syracuse University. In 1884 she married archaeologist John M. Crow, who died in 1891.

Mrs. Crow served on the faculty of Ives Seminary, Waynesburg College, and Wellesley College, becoming principal of Grinnell College in 1884. In 1891 she became assistant professor of English literature at the University of Chicago, and in 1900 was appointed dean of women at Northwestern University.

In addition to lecturing before many scholarly societies, Crow was an active member of the Browning Society, the League of American Pen Women, the Poetry Society of America, and the General Foundation of Women's Clubs. Among her published works are Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles (1896), The World Above (1905), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1907), Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Biography (1913), The American Country Girl (1915), Lafayette (1916), and Christ in the Poetry of Today (1917).

Mrs. Crow's home was in Chicago, Illinois, where she died on January 1, 1924.

From the guide to the Martha Foote Crow Papers, 1885-1921., (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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referencedIn Sara Teasdale Collection, 1888-1934 University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
referencedIn Correspondence of Martha Foote Crow, 1917 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933. Papers, 1847-1933 Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
creatorOf Martha Foote Crow Papers, 1885-1921. Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
referencedIn Angela Morgan Papers, 1893-1957 Bentley Historical Library
creatorOf Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933. Papers of Sara Teasdale [manuscript], 1888-1934 (bulk 1905-1933). University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1912 April 29, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
creatorOf Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley, 1845-1924. Autographs collected and letters received by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, 1705, 1785, 1848, 1861-1922 (bulk 1861-1922). University of Virginia. Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1900-1910,Wilton, Conn. [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1919, April 19,New York City. [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1900-1910 Mar. 1, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
referencedIn Brainerd, Mary Bowen. Papers, 1895-1915. University of Chicago Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1900-1910, New York City [to] Mr. Edwin Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter,1900-1910,April 27, New York City [to] Mrs. Anna Catherine Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
creatorOf Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924. Letter, 1919, April 19, New York City. [to] Mr. Virgil Markham, Staten Island, N.Y. / Martha Foote Crow. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
creatorOf General Federation of Women's Clubs. Department of Literature. Correspondence of Martha Foote Crow, 1917. New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Brainerd, Mary Bowen. Papers, 1895-1915 Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,
referencedIn Kramer, Julia Wood. Julia Wood Kramer thesis, 1996. New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)
referencedIn Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. [Letter] 1917, July 2, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / Van S. Lindsley. Wagner College, Horrmann Library
referencedIn Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk). Houghton Library
referencedIn Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930 Houghton Library
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Death 1924

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