Ruth Hornblower Churchill
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April 18, 1887
Ruth Hornblower Churchill | |
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 Churchill, from a 1929 publication | |
| Born | Ruth Hornblower April 18, 1887 Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 9, 1970 (aged 83) Arlington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Other names | Ruth Hornblower Atkins, Ruth Hornblower Greenough |
| Occupations | Educator, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Robert W. Atkins Chester Noyes Greenough Lawrence Whitfield Churchill |
| Father | Henry Hornblower |
| Relatives | Ralph Hornblower (brother) |
Ruth Hornblower Atkins Greenough Churchill (April 18, 1887 – July 9, 1970) was an American educator, clubwoman, and writer. She published a children's editiion of the King James Bible with illustrations by William Blake and Rudolph Ruzicka.
Hornblower was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, the daughter of banker Henry Hornblower and Harriet Frances Wood Hornblower.[1][2] She graduated from Vassar College in 1908.[3]
Career
Churchill was a member of the Boston Community Nursing Association from 1911 to 1916, and taught kindergarten in Cuba during the winters of those years, because her first husband operated sugar mills there.[4] During World War I she managed Belmont's community kitchen program.[5][6]
Churchill was a teacher, overseer, and treasurer at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1920s.[3][6] In 1936, she co-founded the Harvard Arlington Guidance Study with her second husband, Harvard professor Chester Noyes Greenough.[3] She was a trustee of Vassar College,[5][7] Sarah Lawrence College,[8][9] and Simmons College.[3]