Mary Sumner Benson
Mary Sumner Benson | |
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Mary Sumner Benson, from the 1947 yearbook of Milwaukee-Downer College | |
| Born | April 6, 1903 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 8, 1988 (age 85) South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, college professor |
| Relatives | George 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.