Subjects: Alumni, People

Description:

Katharine E. Cook was the daughter of professor A. J. Cook. She graduated from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1893 with a degree in agriculture. She married Lyman James Briggs (M.A.C. class of 1893) and eventually lived in Washington, D.C. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy. Katharine and her daughter, Isabel, developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test. Katharine Cook Briggs died on July 10, 1968 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Her collection at the MSU Archives contains correspondence, manuscripts, and scrapbooks. A small portion of the collection has been digitized.

The finding aid for the collection is available online: https://findingaids.lib.msu.edu/repositories/2/resources/777.

Format: Text/pdf

Collection Number: UA 10.3.68

Language: English

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Contributing Institution: Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections

Relation: Katharine E. Cook Briggs papers

Contributor: MSU Archives and Historical Collections