Ruth A. McIntyre

Ruth Allan McIntyre (April 26, 1915 – May 11, 1986) was an American historian. A 1949 Guggenheim Fellow, she was author of Debts Hopeful and Desperate and a professor at Wells College and Holyoke Community College.

Biography McIntyre was born on April 26, 1915, in Springfield, Massachusetts, daughter of Catherine ( Allan) and Raymond K. McIntyre. She became a history lecturer at Wells College in 1947, before being promoted to assistant professor in 1948. In 1963, she published Debts Hopeful and Desperate, a book on the "business side" of the Plymouth Colony. Her academic work also included research on the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum's Pynchon Papers.

McIntyre died on May 11, 1986, in Baystate Medical Center, in Springfield, Massachusetts; she was 71. Having moved from South Hadley, McIntyre lived in West Springfield at the time of her death.