About Mary Lockwood Matthews
Lived 1882 – 1968 (aged 85–86). Mary Lockwood Matthews was an American writer and home economist.
Mary Lockwood Matthews was a home economist and the first Dean of Purdue University's School of Home Economics.
Early life and education Matthews was born on October 13, 1882, in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. After the death of both her parents before the age of seven, she and her brother Meredith were adopted by Virginia Claypool Meredith, a friend of their mother and leader in agricultural education.
In 1900 she graduated from the St. Anthony School of Agriculture, after which she enrolled at the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a BS in Home Economics in 1904, the first woman to do so at that school.
Death Matthews died in 1968.
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