Benns mss. 1914-1996

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Benns mss. 1914-1996

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The Benns mss., 1914-1996, consists of the correspondence and papers of the F. Lee Benns family, and particularly of Kate Lee (Benns) Robinson Sturgeon, 1916-1997.

ca. 700 items

eng,

Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6624942

Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Sturgeon, Kate, 1916-1997.

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Frank Lee Benns was professor of history at Indiana University from 1920-1945; his papers are in the Indiana University Archives. Kate Lee was the only child of the Benns's. She was schooled in Bloomington, graduated from Indiana University in the late 1930s, and married Keith Bates Robinson, a newspaper publisher in Rensselaer, Indiana. They had one child, Schuyler Lee Robinson, b. 1941, who died of complications from Hodgkin's disease in 1973. Following her husband's death in 1989, Kate return...