Mary elizabeth haskell biography
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Mary elizabeth haskell biography
Mary Haskell (educator)
American 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.
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]
She was the principal[2] of a private school for girls in Boston, known as Miss Haskell's School for Girls.[3] 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.
Relationship with Kahlil Gibran
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