Background
Elwell, Barbara Lois Dow was born on February 15, 1933 in Purcell, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Henry Kenneth and Leah Maude (Caldwell) Dow.
Elwell, Barbara Lois Dow was born on February 15, 1933 in Purcell, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Henry Kenneth and Leah Maude (Caldwell) Dow.
Student, Endicott College, 1950-1951; student, Jackson Von Ladau School Design, 1952-1954.
Secretary to advisory foreign students Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954—1960. Founder and director Alternative House, Inc., Lowell, 1976-1984. Member staff Encode Technology, Inc., Nashua, New Hampshire, 1984-1987.
Staff assistant Harvard Smithsonian Center Astrophysical, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987-1999. Private assistant Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1999—2006.
Founder Alternative House, Lowell, 1978. Founding member Mass Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Boston, 1976, steering committee, 1976-1984, advisory board 1978-1980.
Married Robert G. Elwell, April 7, 1956 (divorced July 1977). Children: David Robert, Kenneth Dow.