Background
Alvord, Idress Head was born in 1873 in Roanoke, Missouri, United States. Daughter of John Calhoun and Susan (Wallace) Head.
Alvord, Idress Head was born in 1873 in Roanoke, Missouri, United States. Daughter of John Calhoun and Susan (Wallace) Head.
Graduate as Mistress of English Literature, Howard Payne College, Fayette, Missouri, 1897. Central College, Fayette, 1899.
Teacher public schools, Fayette, 1901-1902. History research secretary to Louis Houck while he was writing his History of Missouri, 1903-1907. Librarian and curator Missouri History Society, 1907-1913.
Assistant in woolens section War Industries Board, 1918.
Member of advisory board Living Age. Secretary Farm Department Adjustment in Missouri Resettlement Administration, 1934.
Assistant state director of historical records survey in New Mexico since 1937.
Member Mississippi Valley Historical Association (executive committee, 1912-1913), Missouri Historical Society (associate), Pi Beta Phi Sorority, State History Society of Missouri, Daughters of American Revolution (honorary), United Daughters of the Confederacy (recording secretary Saint Louis Chapter, 1909-1910. Member institute Historique et Heraldique de France, 1933.
Married Clarence West. Alvord, of Urbana, Illinois, April.