Background
Leitch, Mary Sinton was born on September 8, 1876 in New York City. Daughter of Charlton Thomas and Nancy Dunlap (McKeen) Lewis.
Leitch, Mary Sinton was born on September 8, 1876 in New York City. Daughter of Charlton Thomas and Nancy Dunlap (McKeen) Lewis.
Preparatory education, Miss Dana’s School (Morristown, New Jersey) and Ossining (New York) School. Student Smith College, 1894, 95, also in France and Germany. Special courses, Columbia, 1898, 99.
Formerly inspector women’s prisons, New York State. Assistant editor Historians, History of the World, 1904. Traveled to different parts of world in sailing ships and tramp steamers, to study languages and customs of various nationalities.
Contributor to Harper’s Monthly, New York Herald, New York Evening Post, etc. Chairman of Commission for securing Juvenile Court, Norfolk, Virginia, 1914-1915.
Member Poetry Society American, Poetry Society of Virginia (president 1933.
Married John David Leitch, steamship broker, October 17, 1907. Children: Charlton Lewis, Barbara McKeen, John David.