Mary Haskell (educator)
Mary Elizabeth Haskell, later Minis (December 11, 1873 – October 9, 1964), was an American educator, best known for having been the benefactress of Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran.
Mary Haskell | |
|---|---|
 Kahlil Gibran, Portrait of Mary Haskell, 1910 (Telfair Museums) | |
| Born | Mary Elizabeth Haskell December 11, 1873 |
| Died | October 9, 1964 (aged 90) |
| Resting place | Laurel Grove Cemetery (North), Savannah, Georgia |
| Spouse | Jacob Florance Minis
(m. 1926; died 1936) |
Life
Haskell was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Alexander Cheves Haskell and his second wife Alice Van Yeveren (Alexander, sister of Edward Porter Alexander).[1] She was educated at the Presbyterian College for women, Columbia, South Carolina, and Wellesley College, Massachusetts, A.B., 1897.[1]
In 1904, she met Kahlil Gibran at an exhibition of his work at Fred Holland Day's studio.[2] She was then the principal[3] of a private school for girls in Boston, known as Miss Haskell's School for Girls.[4] She taught here, along with her elder sister Louise Porter Haskell. In 1918, this school merged with The Cambridge School of Weston.
On May 7, 1926, she married Jacob Florance Minis (1852–1936), whose first wife had died in 1921.
References
- Historical and Genealogical Collections Relating to the Descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse, p. 200.
- Art, Telfair Museum of (January 2005). Telfair Museum of Art: Collection Highlights. p. 184. ISBN 9780933075047.
- https://bostonlookingbackward.wordpress.com/tag/mary-haskell/
- https://www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/gusn/196406/
Sources
- Hillhouse, Margaret Prouty (1924). Historical and Genealogical Collections Relating to the Descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse.
Further reading
- Hilu, Virginia, ed. (1972). Beloved Prophet: the Love Letters of Khalil Gibran and Mary Haskell.
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