Ruth A. McIntyre
Ruth Allan McIntyre (April 26, 1915 – May 11, 1986) was an American historian. A 1949 Guggenheim Fellow, she was author of Debts Hopeful and Desperate (1963) and a professor at Wells College and Holyoke Community College. BiographyMcIntyre was born on April 26, 1915, in Springfield, Massachusetts, daughter of Catherine (née Allan) and Raymond K. McIntyre.[1] After spending a year in Springfield Junior College (1932–1933), she obtained her BA and MA from Mount Holyoke College in 1936 and 1937, respectively.[2] She worked at the University of Minnesota as a teaching assistant (1937–1940) before going on a 1940–1941 Wellesley College fellowship.[2] After working as an assistant at G & C Merriam Co. (1941–1942) and Columbia Law School (1942–1944), McIntyre worked as a history instructor at Hunter College (1943–1944) and Mount Holyoke College (1944–1946). She later returned to UMinn, where she was an instructor (1946–1947) and obtained a PhD in 1947;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled The role of the English merchant in the promotion of discovery and colonial enterprise, 1496–1616.[3] She became a history lecturer at Wells College in 1947, before being promoted to assistant professor in 1948.[2] She was part of the Holyoke Community College (HCC) faculty from 1962 until her retirement in 1977, working as a professor.[1] In 1949, McIntyre received a Guggenheim Fellowship for "studies of the role of the English merchant class and of certain individual merchants as promoters of early 17th century discovery and of colonial enterprise".[2] In 1963, she published Debts Hopeful and Desperate, a book on the "business side" of the Plymouth Colony.[a] Her academic work also included research on the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum's Pynchon Papers.[1] A senior college transfer scholarship was dedicated to McIntyre, and in February 1978, so was HCC's library reference section.[1] She attended All Saint's Episcopal Church in her native South Hadley.[4] McIntyre died on May 11, 1986, in Baystate Medical Center, in Springfield, Massachusetts; she was 71.[1] Having moved from South Hadley, McIntyre lived in West Springfield at the time of her death.[1] BibliographyNotesReferences
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