Ruth A. McIntyre
Ruth A. McIntyre | |
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| Born | April 26, 1915 |
| Died | May 11, 1986 (aged 71) Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1949) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The role of the English merchant in the promotion of discovery and colonial enterprise, 1496–1616 (1947) |
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Ruth Allan McIntyre (April 26, 1915 – May 11, 1986) was an American historian. A 1949 Guggenheim Fellow, she was author of Debts Hopeful and Desperate (1963) and a professor at Wells College and Holyoke Community College.
Biography
McIntyre was born on April 26, 1915, in Springfield, Massachusetts, daughter of Catherine (née Allan) and Raymond K. McIntyre.[1] After spending a year in Springfield Junior College (1932–1933), she obtained her BA and MA from Mount Holyoke College in 1936 and 1937, respectively.[2] She worked at the University of Minnesota as a teaching assistant (1937–1940) before going on a 1940–1941 Wellesley College fellowship.[2]
After working as an assistant at G & C Merriam Co. (1941–1942) and Columbia Law School (1942–1944), McIntyre worked as a history instructor at Hunter College (1943–1944) and Mount Holyoke College (1944–1946). She later returned to UMinn, where she was an instructor (1946–1947) and obtained a PhD in 1947;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled The role of the English merchant in the promotion of discovery and colonial enterprise, 1496–1616.[3] She became a history lecturer at Wells College in 1947, before being promoted to assistant professor in 1948.[2] She was part of the Holyoke Community College (HCC) faculty from 1962 until her retirement in 1977, working as a professor.[1]
In 1949, McIntyre received a Guggenheim Fellowship for "studies of the role of the English merchant class and of certain individual merchants as promoters of early 17th century discovery and of colonial enterprise".[2] In 1963, she published Debts Hopeful and Desperate, a book on the "business side" of the Plymouth Colony.[a] Her academic work also included research on the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum's Pynchon Papers.[1]
A senior college transfer scholarship was dedicated to McIntyre, and in February 1978, so was HCC's library reference section.[1] She attended All Saint's Episcopal Church in her native South Hadley.[4]
McIntyre died on May 11, 1986, in Baystate Medical Center, in Springfield, Massachusetts; she was 71.[1] Having moved from South Hadley, McIntyre lived in West Springfield at the time of her death.[1]
Bibliography
- Debts Hopeful and Desperate (1963)[a]
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Ruth A. McIntyre, 71; retired HCC professor". Transcript-Telegram. May 12, 1986. p. 4. Archived from the original on September 17, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1949. p. 47.
- ^ McIntyre, Ruth Allan (1947). The role of the English merchant in the promotion of discovery and colonial enterprise, 1496-1616 (PhD thesis). University of Minnesota. OCLC 762184287.
- ^ "Ruth A. McIntyre, Retired Professor, Succumbs at 71". The Republican. May 12, 1986. p. 7. Archived from the original on September 17, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Barbour, Philip L.; James, Sydney V. (1964). "Review of Debts Hopeful and Desperate: Financing the Plymouth Colony; Three Visitors to Early Plymouth: Letters about the Pilgrim Settlement in New England during its First Seven Years, Sydney V. James, Jr". The William and Mary Quarterly. 21 (3): 481–482. doi:10.2307/1918472. ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 1918472.
- ^ Powell, Sumner C. (1964). "Review of Debts Hopeful and Desperate: Financing the Plymouth Colony". The New England Quarterly. 37 (2): 277–279. doi:10.2307/364025. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 364025.