Dorothy Atkinson

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