Lebourveau, Jennie L. (Jennie Lord), 1895-1960

Jennie Lord Winslow was born on May 23, 1895 in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Her father was David F. Winslow, a mechanic. She attended North Brookfield High School and graduated in 1912. In September 1912 she entered Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in history and graduated with a B.A. in 1916. She taught English and history in Rutland, Vermont (1916-1917), English and physical training in an Amesbury, Massachusetts high school (1917), and physical culture, English, and sewing at a Fairhaven, Massachusetts high school (1918). She also took a physical training summer course at Harvard in the summer of 1918. In 1922 she married Ulric Jordan Lebourveau, a hardware dealer. They lived briefly in Houma, Louisiana and returned to North Brookfield by 1923 where their first son was born. They then moved to Somerville, New Jersey and had two more children. For several years she was a foster mother who worked for the Children's Aid Society of Newark. She died at the age of sixty-four on March 23, 1960 in Somerville, New Jersey.

From the guide to the Lebourveau papers MS 0814., 1910-1960, 1912-1916, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)