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Short Name: Katharine H. Annin
Full Name: Annin, Katharine H.
Birth Year: 1893
Death Year (est.): 1993

Birth: Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. June 10, 1893.

Education: graduated from Miss Fine's School, Princeton, N.J. 1910, and from Bryn Mawr College in the class of 1914. Studied music with Angela Diller and Elizabeth Quaile in New York City, & at the Thomas Whitney Surette summer Music School in Concord, Mass.

Marriage and family: married William Stuart Annin, class of 1917, Princeton, on Oct. 15, 1920. Three children.

Interests: Moved in 1924 to the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, where Mr. Annin raised Guernsey purebred cattle. He later joined the editorial staff of the Berkshire Eagle, a daily newspaper in Pittsfield, Mass. I taught elementary grades in private schools, and was librarian for the Richmond Public Library for 11 years, and director of the Richmond Congregational Church choir for many years. Have always been interested in gardening, bird-watching and all aspects of conservation, and am active in church and town activities.

Publications:
1. In 1920, in collaboration with Elizabeth Robinson (now deceased), was compiler of the "Concord Hymnal for Day School, Sunday School and Home." Still available from E.C. Schirmer Music Co., Boston, Mass., who published it as No. 10 in the Concord Series.

2. From 1957 to the present, have been weekly (recently bi-weekly) columnists for the Berkshire Eagle under its heading "Our Berkshires."

3. Author of "Richmond, Massachusetts. The Story of a Berkshire Town and its People 1765-1965." Sponsored by the Richmond Civic Association. Winner of a Certificate of Commendation from the American Society for State and Local History.

--Letter from Katharine H. Annin to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 June 1980. DNAH Archives


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