Ida Sedgwick Proper 1873-1957 biographical file.
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Ida Sedgwick Proper was born around 1874 on a farm near Bonaparte, Iowa, the third child in the family of a Baptist minister. She attended Bethany College, an Episcopal school for girls in Kansas. She studied art and taught art at schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. From 1919 to 1922 she was on the faculty of the University of Puerto Rico. She worked in libraries in Seattle and New York City. In 1925 or 1926 she first came to Monhegan Island in Maine on a vacation and bought a house which be...