Agnes Newhall Stillwell

Newhall was born Agnes Ellen Milan in Southwest Harbor, Maine.^[1] Agnes was partly raised by an aunt, educator Laura L. Newhall, in Boston.^[2] Agnes was described as a niece of Millie Milan and her older sister Hattie Hamblen, when both women died on the same day, in Maine in 1932.^[3]

Newhall graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1927, and pursued graduate studies on a fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,^[4] where she was based until 1935.^[5]

Stillwell moved to Princeton, New Jersey, because her husband was a professor there.^[6] She continued working alongside her husband in Greece,^[7] and writing scholarly articles.^[8] Her inventories from excavating at Corinth continued to inform other scholars' work.^[9][10]

• "Eighth Century B.C. Inscriptions from Corinth" (1933)^[11]
• The Potter’s Quarter (1948, with Jack Leonard Benson)^[12]
• The Potter’s Quarter: The Terracottas (1952)^[13]

Agnes Newhall married Richard Stillwell, head of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in London in 1932.^[5] They had two children, Richard and Theodora. Richard became a chemist, and Theodora followed her parents in doing archaeological work at Corinth.^[7][14] Agnes Newhall Stillwell died in 1957, at the age of 51, in Princeton.^[15] Her granddaughter Camilla MacKay is also an archaeologist by training.^[8][16]