Biographical Note

Sophronia Maria Elliott (sometimes Elliot) was born to Moses and Sarah Elliott in Baldwinsville, Massachusetts, on February 18, 1854. She became a professor of home economics at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She and Ellen H. Richards co-authored The Chemistry of Home Economics (1914), and Elliott was the sole author of Home Bacteriology (1907) and Household Hygiene (1911). In 1914, she received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Brown University for her work on scientific housekeeping. Elliott was a member of the New England Home Economics Association and the Massachusetts Home Economics Association, the First Baptist Church, the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of the Northern Baptist Convention, and the Womans City Club of Boston. She died on March 14, 1942.

External Sources:

The Journal of Home Economics, Volume 15. 1923. Page 464. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Journal_of_Home_Economics/ILdOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=s.+maria+elliot&pg=PA463&printsec=frontcover

S. Maria Elliott. Household Hygiene. 1911. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Elliot_S_Maria_Household_hygiene/ej1MAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

S. Maria Elliott. Household Bacteriology. 1907. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Elliot_S_Maria_Household_bacteriology/WD1MAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Find A Grave. "Sophronia Maria Elliott." Accessed October 19, 2022. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128647503/sophronia-maria-elliott

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