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Margaret Dora Thomson (b. 1900)

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• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  Wonderful image of a serious young women early in the century. I love the walrus (or part of him) on the wall in the background. Do you think this was in the SI or at Berkeley? www.worldcat.org/title/experimental-amoebiasis-in-the-rab...

• Brenda Anderson said:

  Here's some information I found about her. Margaret Dora Thomson was born in January 1900, presumably in Fresno, California where she was enumerated in the 1900 census with her father Thomas Thomson (b. June 1866 in Scotland) and her mother Janet (Beaton) Thomson (b. June 1868 in Scotland) Her father was a foreman in a vineyard. Source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Township 4, Fresno, California; Roll: 86; Page: 24A; Enumeration District: 11; FHL microfilm: 1240086. In the 1910 and 1920 censuses, the family is found in Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, where her father was a farm manager. Source: Year: 1910; Census Place: Gilroy, Santa Clara, California; Roll: T624_105; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0072; Image: 675; FHL microfilm: 1374118. Year: 1920; Census Place: Gilroy, Santa Clara, California; Roll: T625_146; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 129; Image: 855. In 1921, she was awarded a baccalaureate degree from Mills College, as announced in the Oakland Tribune on May 10, 1921 In 1926, she was included in a list of students awarded a Masters of Art from Cal Berkeley, as announced in the Oakland Tribune on May 12, 1926 Source: Ancestry.com. Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Oakland Tribune. Oakland, CA, USA. Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper. Around 1927, she married Harold Kirby (b. 1900 Nova Scotia) who was a zoology professor and, at the time of his death in 1952, was the Chairman of Department of Zoology at Berkeley. They had 2 children: daughter Janet and son Roger. Source: Story in the Calisphere (Academic-Senate Berkeley) found online here: texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0w10035d&chunk.id=div000... A Margaret T Kirby, born 14 Jan 1901 in California, died in Alameda, Cal on 15 Mar 1979. This is most likely her. Source: Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

• Smithsonian Institution said:

  Brenda Anderson Wow, Brenda... so detailed. Thank you! These are fantastic references. Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives