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{{Short description|Calhoun School headmistress}}
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| birth_date = 1873December 8, 1873
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| death_date = November 1110, 1963 (age 90)
| death_place = [[Westport, Connecticut|Westport]], CT
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'''Mary Edwards Calhoun''' (December 8, 1873 – November 10, 1963) was the [[Calhoun School|Calhoun School]] headmistress from 1916 to 1942.
 
==Biography==
 
Calhoun was born in 1873 to Alfred R. Calhoun also known as Major A.R. Calhoun, a Kentucky-born Civil War hero, journalist, and author,<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 2, 1912|title=Obituary|page=3|work=The Standard Union|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/543820255/|access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> and Agnes Edwards Calhoun, born a Philadelphia Quaker, although she later joined the Congregationalist [[Plymouth Church (Brooklyn)|Plymouth Church]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=November 11, 1901|title=Mrs. Alfred R. Calhoun|page=3|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50359122/|access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> Calhoun lived most of her adult life with her sister Alice, a social worker.
Miss Calhoun was born to a Philadelphia Quaker family in 1873.
 
SheIn 1893, she graduated from [[Packer Collegiate Institute]] in Brooklyn and in 1905 from Teachers College of [[Columbia University]]. She taught at [[Wilson College (Pennsylvania)|Wilson College]] in 1913, [[Horace Mann School]], [[Barnard College]] and Packer.<ref>
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</ref> She also was the Women's page editor at the ''[[New York Herald Tribune|Herald Tribune]]''. During October 1915, Calhoun campaigned as a state organizer in support of the Pennsylvania Suffrage Referendum.<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 4, 1915|title=Montrose|page=9|work=The Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/49340579/|access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref>
</ref> She also was the Women's page editor at the Herald Tribune.
 
In 1916, she succeeded Laura Jacobi as [[Head teacher|headmistress]] at the Jacobi School.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Trager|first=James|url=https://archive.org/details/westoffifthrisef0000trag/page/166/mode/2up?q=mary+edwards+calhoun|title=West of Fifth : The Rise and Fall and Rise of Manhattan's West Side|publisher=Atheneum|year=1987|isbn=0-689-11775-2|location=New York|pages=167|oclc=14068186|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Around 1924, the school name was changed to [[Calhoun School|The Calhoun School]] at the request of parents. Retiring in 1942, Miss Calhoun became Chairmanchairman of the Boardboard, pursued her interests in the [[World Federation of United Nations Associations|World Federation]], supported the work of the [[Quakers|Society of Friends]], and left bequests to [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and the [[NAACP]] as well as to her sister and the educational institutions with which she had been associated. <ref>"[https://www.calhoun.org/about/calhoun-glance/school-history School History]". ''Calhoun School''.</ref>
 
She wrote ''Readings from American Literature, a Textbook for Schools and Colleges'' (1915) which was given mixed reviews by ''[[American Journal of Education|The School Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Howard Mumford|date=1915-05-01|title=Readings from American Literature. Mary Edwards Calhoun , Emma Leonora MacLarney|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/436481|journal=The School Review|volume=23|issue=5|pages=354–355|doi=10.1086/436481|issn=0036-6773}}</ref>
She wrote ''Readings from American Literature, a Textbook for Schools and Colleges''.<ref>
 
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Calhoun died on November 10, 1963, in her Westport home.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1963-11-12|title=Mary Calhoun, 90, Educator, Succumbs|pages=29|work=The Bridgeport Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54484157/the-bridgeport-post/|access-date=2020-06-30|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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[[Category:1873 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century American women educators]]
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