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Prename: | Dorothy |
Surname: | Atkinson |
Profession: | Philanthropist |
Birthday: | 06/22/1890 |
Place of birth: | St. Paul, MN |
Date of death: | 04/13/1965 |
Place of death: | Tobago, Britisch West Indies |
Married since: | 1911 |
Married to: | Frederick G. Atkinson |
Profession husband: | Entrepreneur |
Children: | 3 (Mary, 1903; Frederick, 1914; William 1917) |
Memberships: | : American Association of University Women (AAUW); 1927 initiates the AAUW Million Dollar Fellowship Fund; 1949–55 member, 1955–62 president of the board, Minneapolis Public Library; 1954–65 Board of Trustees of Hamline University, St. Paul, MN; active in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Minnesota Historical Society |
Biographical literature: | Barbara Stuhler and Gretchen V. Kreuter (eds.), *Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical* Essays (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998), 369 |