Background
Grissom, Irene Welch was born on December 3, 1873 in Greeley, Colorado, United States. Daughter of William Pringle and Theresa (Crittenden) Welch.
Grissom, Irene Welch was born on December 3, 1873 in Greeley, Colorado, United States. Daughter of William Pringle and Theresa (Crittenden) Welch.
Pd.B., Colorado State Teachers’ College, Greeley, 1894, post-graduate work, 1927, also summer school student at University of Montana, 1934, University of Colorado, 1937.
Member Northwest Poetry Society Author: The Superintendent, 1910. A Daughter of the Northwest, 1918. The Passing of the Desert (verse), 1924.
Verse of the New West, 1931.
Under Desert Skies, 1936. Appointed poet laureate of Idaho by Governor Creative Commons Moore, 1923.
Contributor to magazines
Member Northwest Poetry Society.
Married Charles Meigs Grissom, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, September 2, 1903 (died March 1, 1935).