Jane Du Pree Begos

Background

Begos, Jane Du Pree was born on December 14, 1930 in Athens, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Crawford and Edna Imogene (Neil) Du Pree.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Georgia, 1951. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1965.

Career

Programs director, John Jay Homestead State History Site, Katonah, New York, 1976-1986; consultant editor, READEX Micropublication Corporation, American Women's Diaries Series, New Canaan, Connecticut records clerk collections management unit, Bureau History Sites, Waterford, New York, 1988-1990; curator, Dutchess County History Society, 1990-1992; director, Northumberland County History Society, since 1992. Consultant Pennsylvania Humanities Council project Raising Our Sites: Women's Historyin Pennsylvania.

Achievements

• Jane Du Pree Begos has been listed as a noteworthy Museum professional, independent scholar by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1952-1957. Member Southern Association of Women's Historians, Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians, National Women's Studies Association, Communal Societies Association, Costume Society of America, Columbia University Graduate Faculties Association, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

Interests

• Travel, needlecrafts, reading, country auctions.

Connections

Married Kevin Paul Begos, September 7, 1957 (divorced March 1995). Children: Kevin Paul Junior, Cassandra Jane. Married William N. Richardson, June 30, 1995.

Father:

Crawford Pree

Mother:

Edna Imogene (Neil) Du Pree

Spouse:

Kevin Paul Begos

Spouse:

William N. Richardson

child:

Kevin Paul Junior Begos

child:

Cassandra Jane Begos