Eleanor Larrabee Lattimore

Eleanor Larrabee Lattimore (March 28, 1874 – October 17, 1966) was an American sociologist and college professor. She taught sociology at the University of Buffalo and the University of Missouri.

Early life and education Lattimore was born in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Samuel Allan Lattimore and Ellen Larrabee Lattimore. Her father was a chemistry professor. Her younger sister was social worker Florence Larrabee Lattimore. Their cousins included writers Owen Lattimore, Eleanor Frances Lattimore, and Richmond Lattimore. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1900, and from the University of Rochester in 1904. She completed a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Career Lattimore taught high school biology in Rochester after college. She was director of the YWCA's national research bureau, and director of education at the YWCA in Chicago. She was director of the Chicago chapter of the AAUW. and was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the American Eugenics Association, the National Sociological Society, and the National Association of Social Workers. She also published her eugenic studies of "degenerate and defective people". She spoke to community groups about mental health issues.

Publications "Charts Showing the Family Histories of Certain Degenerate and Defective People in a Rural Section of Virginia" (1911) Some Illustrative Clinic Cases (1916) "The Superficial Idiot–A Type" (1917, The Psychological Clinic) Legal Recognition Of Industrial Women (1919, with Ray S. Trent) "Immigrant Workers in Steel" (1921, Foreign-Born)

Personal life Lattimore had a stroke in 1961, and was in a coma for five years until she died in 1966, at the age of 92, at a hospital in Clifton Springs, New York.