Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Staff
Series 14: MEDICAL
Margaret Twichell, Nurse Assistant, 1942-1943
Margaret Frost Twichell (1919-2008)

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TAGS: Margaret Frost Twichell, Margaret Twichell, Peg Twichell, Margaret Frost Mowbray, Margaret Frost Jones, nurses, Hugh McKittrick Jones, Henry Siddons Mowbray Jr, Infirmary, Milton Academy, Bennington College, American Red Cross, World War II

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MARGARET FROST TWICHELL Staff

Nurse Assistant, September 1942 – 1943

The following information is excerpted from “Paper on Margaret Frost Twichell Mowbray Jones,” written on November 30, 2017, by David W. Babington and sent to Pine Mountain Settlement School by John D. Babington. 

Margaret, known as Peg, was born August 13, 1919, in Brooklyn, NY, the daughter of Eugenia Pratt (1891-1983) and Burton Parker Twichell (1878-1949). She was the second of four children, the other three named David C., Harmony and Charles P. Twichell.

Margaret’s childhood home was in New Haven, CT, but her family summered in Keene Valley, NY. Margaret graduated from the Milton Academy in Massachusetts and attended Bennington College in Vermont from which she apparently graduated in 1942.

MARGARET TWICHELL: At Pine Mountain

[After training, Margaret worked as a nurse assistant] at the Pine Mountain Settlement School from 1942 to 1943, helping deliver babies among other duties in the School’s Infirmary.

MARGARET FROST TWICHELL: After Pine Mountain

In 1944 Margaret joined the American Red Cross serving as a staff assistant overseas in New Guinea and Australia for two years during World War II. While overseas Margaret met her first husband Henry Siddons Mowbray Jr (1917-1978) while he was serving with the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers in the South Pacific. Margaret returned from her overseas duty with the American Red Cross in April 1946. On June 28, 1947, Margaret was married to Henry S. Mowbray Jr at the Yale University Marquand Chapel in New Haven, CT. They had two children, a son named Burton Twichell Mowbray and a daughter Katherine Siddons Mowbray. 

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Henry Siddons Mowbray Jr died on May 14, 1978, in Washington, CT.

Margaret married her second husband, Hugh McKittrick Jones (1919-1995), an architect, on March 17, 1984. Hugh M. Jones Jr died on May 1, 1995, in Madison, CT.

Margaret Frost Twichell Jones died on August 13, 2008, in Connecticut.

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GALLERY: MARGARET FROST TWICHELL Staff

Twichell Correspondence, October 19, 1945. [image00064.jpg]

Title	Margaret Frost Twichell
Alt. Title	Margaret Twichell ; Margaret Frost Twichell Mowbray ; Margaret Frost Twichell Mowbray Jones ; Margaret Frost Mowbray ; Margaret Frost Jones ; Peg Twichell ; Peggy Twichell ;
Identifier	pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=48535
Creator	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Alt. Creator	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt
Subject Keyword	Margaret Frost Twichell ; Margaret Twichell, ; Peg Twichell ;   Margaret Frost Mowbray ; Margaret Frost Jones ; nurses ;   Hugh McKittrick Jones ; Henry Siddons Mowbray Jr ;  Infirmary ; Milton Academy ; Bennington College ; American Red Cross ; World War II
Subject LCSH	Twichell, Margaret Frost, — 1919 – 2008. Pine Mountain (Ky.) Settlement School — History. Harlan County (Ky.) — History. Education — Kentucky — Harlan County. Rural schools — Kentucky — History. Medicine — Kentucky. Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern.
Date	2017-12-09 aae
Publisher	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY
Contributors	David W. Babington; sent to PMSS by John D. Babington.
Type	Collections ; text ; image ;
Format	Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet.
Source	Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel
Language	English
Relation	Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: Biography – Staff/Personnel
Coverage Temporal	1919 – 2008
Coverage Spatial	Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Brooklyn, NY ; New Haven, CT ; Keene Valley, NY ; Massachusetts ; Vermont ; New Guinea ; Australia ; South Pacific ; Madison, CT ; Connecticut ;
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.
Donor	n/a
Description	Core documents, correspondence, writings and administrative papers created by or addressed to Margaret Frost Twichell ; clippings, photographs, publications, illustrations by or about Margaret Frost Twichell
Acquisition	n/d
Citation	“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Processed By	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;
Last Updated	2017-12-09 aae ; 2019-05-29 aae ; 2019-07-12 corresp. scan; 2023-09-29 aae ;
Bibliography
Sources	Babington, David W. “Paper on Margaret Frost Twichell Mowbray Jones.” 2017 November 30. PMSS archival material. “United States Census, 1940,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW9M-J26 : accessed 2019-05-29 ), Margaret F. Twichell in household of Burton P Twichell, Ward 18, New Haven, New Haven Town, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11-115, sheet 14A, line 33, family 10, 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, roll 541. Internet resource.

See Also:
INFIRMARY
MARGARET FROST TWICHELL Correspondence
MEDICAL – Introduction

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