Background
Coolidge, Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts was born on October 28, 1860 in Kingsbury, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Professor Isaac Phillips and Margaret Jane (Marr) Roberts.
Coolidge, Mary Elizabeth Burroughs Roberts was born on October 28, 1860 in Kingsbury, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Professor Isaac Phillips and Margaret Jane (Marr) Roberts.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Cornell, 1880, Master of Science, 1882. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1896. Doctor of Letters, Mills College, 1927.
On staff of the Rural New Yorker, 1880-1881. Teacher of history, Washington (District of Columbia) High School, 1882-1884. Principal and teacher history Mission Nourse and Mission Roberts’ private school, Cincinnati, O., 1884-1886.
Instructor of history and economics, 1886-1890, secretary board examiners, 1888-1890, Wellesley College.
Assistant and associate professor of sociology, Stanford University, 1896-1903. Research assistant to Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1904-1908.
Head worker South Park Settlement, San Francisco, 1905-1906. Research work, San Francisco Relief Survey, 1909.
Professor sociology, Mills College, 1918-1927.
Member California State Board of Education, term 1928-1932. Member San Francisco branch of America Indian Defense Associations Member American Association University professors, National League of Women Voters, American Association of University Women.
Clubs: California Writers (president 1932-1935), College Women'son
Married Albert West. Smith, August 28, 1890. Married second, Dane Coolidge, July 30, 1906.