Mary-Russell (Ferrell) Colton (1889 - 1971)

Born 25 Mar 1889 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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Biography

Mary-Russell (Ferrell) Colton is Notable.

• painter, author, educator, co-founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona.
• d/o Joseph Librant (?) Ferrell (engineer) & Elise Houston
  • Houston - grandfather was chief justice of TN Supreme Court, related to Sam Houston, 7th governor of TX... through marriage related to James K Polk^[1]
• step-daughter of Theodore Presser (mother married him c. 1909)(publisher)
• 1904-1909 Philadelphia School of Design for Women
  • sponsored at this school by a family friend, Mrs. Ann E. Walbridge^[1]
• The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group^[2]
• 23 May 1912 m. Prof. Harold Sellers Colton - met him in preparation for a hiking expedition - married in the home or Elise & Theodore Presser
• During visits to the Colorado Plateau, they made notes on places of interest. Much of the initial archeology done in these areas was based off of these places they noted. This included a decade-long archaelogical survey of an area where there son Ferrell, a toddler in 1916, found a pottery shard which he then gave to his father who reecognized its possible importance^[1]
• 1981 inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame^[3]
• Arizona Womens Heritage Trail^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton." Stuff You Missed in History Class. (Podcast). 31 Jan 2018. How Stuff Works.com (web). Accessed 18 March 2018.
2. ↑ "The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group 1917-1945." Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Greensburg, PA. http://www.wmuseumaa.org
3. ↑ Arizona Women's Hall of Fame
4. ↑ Arizona Womens Heritage Trail

• Wikipedia: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, accessed 18 March 2018.
• "MARY-RUSSELL FERRELL COLTON–A CREATIVE VISIONARY." Museum of Northern Arizona (Press Releases). 19 April 2012.
• Wikipedia: Museum of Northern Arizona, accessed 18 March 2018.