Mary Sumner Benson

Mary Sumner Benson
Mary Sumner Benson, from the 1947 yearbook of Milwaukee-Downer College
BornApril 6, 1903
New York, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 8, 1988 (age 85)
South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Historian, college professor
RelativesGeorge C. S. Benson (brother)
Charles Burt Sumner (grandfather)

Mary Sumner Benson (April 6, 1903 – September 8, 1988) was an American historian and college professor, author of Women in Eighteenth-Century America (1935). She taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1952 to 1968.