Urquhart, Lucy Dickinson, 1881-1975
Biographical Note
Lucy Dickinson Urquhart was born in 1881 in Marion, Virginia, to Dr. Smelt W. and Sarah Isabel Look Dickinson. She attended Virginia Intermont College, Vassar College, and Columbia University's Teacher College. She worked as an advertising copywriter in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was also heavily involved in the Smyth County Historical Society and the Marion Baptist Church. She married George D. Urquhart, and they had no children. She died in Roanoke on January 27, 1975.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Lucy Dickinson Correspondence
This collection includes three letters addressed to Lucy Dickinson, a student at Vassar College. Two of the letters are from Edward C. Root of New York, New York; the third, from Louise Bass of Atlanta, Georgia.
Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers
The Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers, 1865-1973, contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, and poetry and advertisements by Lucy Dickinson Urquhart (1881-1975), an advertising copywriter and local historian in Virginia. The collection also includes correspondence, papers, and other materials related to her family.