Edith Stratton Kitt

Edith Olive Stratton Kitt (December 15, 1878 – January 18, 1968) was an American clubwoman and historian, who expanded the collections and membership of the Arizona Historical Society as secretary of the society from 1925 to 1947. She was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 1983.

Early life and education A Few of the Eminent Women of Arizona from a 1928 publication: C. Louise Boehringer, Mattie L. Williams, Maie Bartlett Heard, Margaret Wheeler Ross, Edith O. Kitt Stratton was born in an adobe house with a dirt floor in Florence, Arizona, and raised on a cattle ranch, the daughter of Emerson Oliver Stratton and Caroline Crocker Ames Stratton. She graduated from high school in Los Angeles in 1900. She completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Arizona at age 41, in 1920. Career Stratton taught school in Arizona and Colorado as a young woman. She was on the editorial staff of the Arizona Historical Review.

In 1963, Kitt was named "First Lady of Arizona's Territorial Centennial". Publications "Reminiscences of Juan A. Tellez" (1936) "Arizona Place Name Records" (1952, with T. M. Pearce) Pioneering in Arizona: the Reminiscences of Emerson Oliver Stratton and Edith Stratton Kitt (1964)

Personal life In 1903, Stratton married George Farwell Kitt. They had two children, also named Edith and George. In 1983, she was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.