Georgia Harkness

HARKNESS, Georgia Elma. b. Harkness, New York (the town was named after her grandfather), 21 April 1891; d. Claremont, California, 30 August 1974. Harkness attended Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (BA 1912), taught German, French, Greek and Latin in a high school in northern New York State; studied at Boston University (MA 1920, PhD 1923), as well as Harvard University, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary, New York City. She taught religion and philosophy at Elmira College, Elmira, New York (1922-37); Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (1937-39); Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois (1939-50), where she was the first woman in the USA to be...