Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff
Margaret Ann Livengood, Teacher, 1935
Physician 1930s, 1950s?
Margaret Ann Livengood (1913-1999)
Mary Sinclair Burkham Memorial School House II, 1919-1983. [II_12-02_burkham_0416a.jpg]
TAGS: Margaret Ann Livengood, James Livengood, PMSS English teacher, Glyn Morris, The Pine Cone, “Spreading the News” play
MARGARET ANN LIVENGOOD Staff
English Teacher, September – December 1935
PMSS Physician, Late 1930s, 1950s (?)
In the summer of 1935, Margaret Ann Livengood, accompanied by her younger brother James, visited Pine Mountain Settlement School to apply for a position as English teacher.
Margaret Ann Livengood: AT PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL
Margaret Ann Livengood was hired as a PMSS worker by Director Glyn Morris and taught English from September 1935 until December 1935.
The February 1936 issue of The Pine Cone, a PMSS student publication, reports that “Miss Livengood” directed a play, “Spreading the News,” that was presented by the dramatics club of Pine Mountain on December 7, 1935.
Margaret Ann Livengood: PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Margaret Livengood was born on October 10, 1913, in Madison County, Kentucky, to Frank and Anna (Cooper) Livengood, both from Ohio. Her only sibling, James Cooper Livengood, was born in 1916.
By the year that the 1920 U.S. Census was taken, the family was living in Berea, Kentucky. The 1930 U.S. Census lists Margaret Ann as a student at Berea College. By the 1940 Census, at age 26, she was living with friends in Chester County, Pennsylvania, having moved there from Massachusetts. At the time, she worked as a secretary in a public library.
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Margaret Ann Livengood died on June 13, 1999, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Her gravestone in the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Annville, Pennsylvania, indicates that she had served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.
MARGARET A. LIVENGOOD, PMSS Physician 1950s?
THE FOLLOWING NEEDS TO BE VERIFIED
The following on-line references dated 1959, 1960, and 1975 were found for “Margaret A. Livengood, M.D.” At this writing, it cannot be verified that Dr. Livengood is the same person as James’s sister.
Sister of James Livengood (?), Margaret came to Pine Mountain as part of the medical staff in the late 1930s. She then returned to the school to work at the new clinic located at West Wind in the early 1950s.
In the interim, she worked at the Frontier Nursing Service near Hyden. At the encouragement of Glyn Morris, she also re-located to Wilkes Barre (Luzerne County), Pennsylvania, where she started a nurse-midwife clinic for the community on the model of the Frontier Nursing Service. An article in the Wilkes-Barre paper describes that effort:
[From The Progress newspaper in Clearfield, PA, dated April 5, 1975, page 14: “Nurse-Midwife Role Revived” by Susan J. Reevier(?), Associated Press Writer, WILKES BARRE, Pa. (AP)]
The role of the nurse-midwife, who 50 years ago packed her black satchel and her gingham skirts on a mule to deliver babies in the backwoods, has been revived in this northeastern Pennsylvania town.
Today, however, she sees patients in a cheerful clinic, and delivers babies in a modern hospital under the supervision of an obstetrician. “The purpose of the nurse-midwifery clinic is to demonstrate that a certified nurse-midwife can handle normal deliveries and free a physician to threat more women,” explains Dr. Margaret Livengood, a pediatrician with grand-motherly charm. Dr. Livengood herself provided medical care on horseback and jeep in the hills of her native Kentucky before coming to Wilkes Barre as creator of the nurse-midwife service.
She transplanted the idea from Kentucky’s Frontier Nursing Service, an innovative and nationally known program. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I went there in 1960. But I saw what they were doing and it really excited me,” she recalls. The clinic here is an outpatient service for indigent women and operates under Maternal Health Services Inc., a government funded program. It is the only one of its kind in the 13-state area covered by the Appalachian Regional Commission and serves the population within a 35-mile radius, because that’s as far as a woman in labor should attempt to travel.
Aided by a nutritionist and a social worker and overseen by an obstetrician, head midwife Ann Griffiths and her team of three midwives care for the mother through pregnancy and deliver the baby in Mercy Hospital here. Only in complicated cases does the obstetrician intervene, although he is always on call. “It’s the same high quality service as with a physician alone. But there is more time for the midwife to be with each patient, care for all her needs and help her to adjust to her child,” Dr. Livengood added.
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61894939/ (accessed 09-12-2015
See Also:
Images 43 and 44 on the Explore UK website show pages from the Spring 1960 issue of the Frontier Nursing Services Quarterly Bulletin (Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 41-42) which mention “Dr. Livengood.” http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7mkk948s1k_43? (accessed 09-12-2015)
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Title |
Margaret Ann Livengood |
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Alt. Title |
Margaret Livengood ; Margaret A. Livengood, M.D.(?) |
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Identifier |
MARGARET ANN LIVENGOOD Staff |
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Creator |
Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY |
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Alt. Creator |
Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Helen Hayes Wykle ; |
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Subject Keyword |
Margaret Ann Livengood; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; James C. Livengood ; PMSS English teacher ; |
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Subject LCSH |
Livengood, Margaret, — 1913 – 1999. |
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Date |
2015-09-12 HW |
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Publisher |
Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY |
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Contributor |
n/a |
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Type |
Collections ; text ; image ; |
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Format |
Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet. |
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Source |
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff |
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Language |
English |
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Relation |
Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff |
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Coverage Temporal |
1935 |
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Coverage Spatial |
Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Berea, KY ; Madison County, KY ; Annville, PA ; Luzerne County, PA ; Chester County, Pennsylvania ; Ohio ; |
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Rights |
Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
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Donor |
n/a |
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Description |
Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Margaret Ann Livengood ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Margaret Ann Livengood ; |
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Acquisition |
n/d |
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Citation |
“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. |
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Processed By |
Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ; |
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Last Updated |
2020-08-02 aae ; 2022-11-14 aae ; 2023-07-13 aae ; |
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Bibliography |
Sources “Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV4-9V2F : 02 August 2020), Margaret Ann Livengood, 1999; Burial, Annville, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Indiantown Gap National Cemetery; citing record ID 923239, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. “Margaret Ann Livengood.” Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Internet resource. “Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHV-H4XT : Accessed 02 August 2020), Margaret A Livengood, 10 Oct 1913; citing Birth, Madison, Kentucky, United States, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort.
“Livengood, Margaret.” Images 43 and 44 on the Explore UK website show pages from the Spring 1960 issue of the Frontier Nursing Services Quarterly Bulletin (Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 41-42) which mention “Dr. Livengood.” http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7mkk948s1k_43? (accessed 09-12-2015) Internet resource. “United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHGR-M58 : accessed 02 August 2020), Margaret Ann Livengood in household of Frank Livengood, Berea, Madison, Kentucky, United States; citing ED 103, sheet 12A, line 10, family 243, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992). Internet resource. “United States Census, 1930,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRH7-HJT?cc=1810731&wc=QZF3-F47%3A648805301%2C649495601%2C650300701%2C1589282372 : Accessed 02 August 2020), Kentucky > Madison > Berea > ED 16 > image 30 of 38; citing NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002). Internet resource. “United States Census, 1940,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ82-HCN : Accessed 02 August 2020), Margaret Livengood in household of Russell Hayes, Newlin Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15-54, sheet 6A, line 37, family 12, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 – 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012. Internet resource. “United States Social Security Death Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYSG-3YW : 02 August 2020), Margaret Livengood, 13 Jun 1999; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing). |
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