Needham family

Photograph

Greene Connections

Needham family

Name/Title

Needham family

Entry/Object ID

2019.26.1

Description

Needham family, pictured [Left-Right]: BACK - Charles Fitch Needham and wife, Hawley Varnum Needham and wife; FRONT - Caroline Olivia "Carrie" Needham, Risa Loretta (Titus) Needham, *Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still. One brother, George William Needham, is not present. A family story says that he absolutely refused to go with the others to have his picture taken that day. Risa tied a previous photograph of him to her bonnet straps (over her left shoulder), so that his "likeness" would be included. *Margaret Leonice Needham, Laura Weethee, and Lydia Weethee were the first three women to receive male-equivalent bachelor's degrees from Waynesburg College, graduating 23 September 1857, as identified in: Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Waynesburg College for the Academic Year Ending September 1857.

Collection

Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2019.26

Acquisition Method

Digital

Credit Line

Bonnie (Watts) Cook in partnership with researchers John and Betty Hartman

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1895

Lexicon

Search Terms

Needham family, Waynesburg (Pa.)--Schools--Waynesburg College--Alumni, Waynesburg (Pa.)--Schools--Waynesburg College--Class of 1857

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

HART0001

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Needham, Margaret Leonice [1838-1912]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Waynesburg College Alumni Series - Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still Collection

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2006

Notes

The Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still Collection was passed from Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still [1838-1912] to her daughter, Cricket (Still) Tubbs [1866-1955], to her daughter, Bonnie (Tubbs) Watts [1906-1985], to her daughter, Bonnie (Watts) Cook, who owned and, with researchers John and Betty Hartman, shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006. Source Citation: Needham family; circa 1895; item no. HART00001, Margaret Leonice (Needham) Still Collection, shared by Bonnie (Watts) Cook in partnership with researchers John and Betty Hartman; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).