Agnes Newhall Stillwell Explained

Agnes Newhall Stillwell
Birth Name:Agnes Ellen Milan
Birth Date:March 4, 1906
Birth Place:Southwest Harbor, Maine, U.S.
Death Place:Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Archaeologist
Spouse(S):Richard Stillwell

Agnes Ellen Newhall Stillwell (March 4, 1906 – April 8, 1957) was an American archaeologist, focused on Corinth.

Early life and education

Newhall was born Agnes Ellen Milan in Southwest Harbor, Maine.[1] Agnes was partly raised by an aunt, educator Laura L. Newhall, in Boston.[2] Agnes was described as a niece of Millie Milan and her older sister Hattie Hamblen, when both women died on the same day, in Maine in 1932.[3]

Newhall graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1927, and pursued graduate studies on a fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,[4] where she was based until 1935.

Career

Stillwell moved to Princeton, New Jersey, because her husband was a professor there.[5] She continued working alongside her husband in Greece,[6] and writing scholarly articles.[7] Her inventories from excavating at Corinth continued to inform other scholars' work.[8] [9]

Publications

Personal life and legacy

Agnes Newhall married Richard Stillwell, head of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in London in 1932.[13] They had two children, Richard and Theodora. Richard became a chemist, and Theodora followed her parents in doing archaeological work at Corinth.[14] Agnes Newhall Stillwell died in 1957, at the age of 51, in Princeton.[15] Her granddaughter Camilla MacKay is also an archaeologist by training.[16]

Notes and References

  1. News: May 26, 1932 . Miss Agnes E. Newhall Former Southwest Harbor Girl Engaged to Marry . 10 . The Bangor Daily News . May 16, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: Winner of $2000 Scholarship Niece of South Boston Woman . 11 . The Boston Globe . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: April 21, 1932 . Two Sisters on Same Day . 4 . The Bangor Daily News . May 16, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: May 1, 1928 . South Boston Girl Wins Athens Fellowship . 23 . The Boston Globe . May 16, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1982-08-03 . Richard Stillwell Dies; Princeton Archeologist . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-16 . 0362-4331.
  6. Summer 1998 . Theodora Stillwell MacKay, 1938–1998 . American School of Classical Studies at Athens Newsletter . 41 . 18.
  7. Web site: Touring Antiquity: The Richard Stillwell Collection . 2023-05-16 . Visual Resources Collection, Princeton University.
  8. Weinberg . Saul S. . 1949 . Investigations at Corinth, 1947–1948 . Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . 18 . 1 . 148–157 . 10.2307/147002 . 147002 . 0018-098X.
  9. Brownlee . Ann Blair . 2003 . Workshops in the Potters' Quarter . Corinth . 20 . 181–194 . 10.2307/4390723 . 4390723 . 1558-7185.
  10. Stillwell . Agnes Newhall . 1933-10-01 . Eighth Century B. C. Inscriptions from Corinth . American Journal of Archaeology . en . 37 . 4 . 605–610 . 10.2307/498126 . 498126 . 193019509 . 0002-9114.
  11. Book: Stillwell . Agnes Newhall . The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery . Benson . Jack Leonard . 1948 . ASCSA . 978-0-87661-153-1 . en.
  12. Stillwell . Agnes Newhall . 1952 . The Potters' Quarter: The Terracottas . Corinth . 15 . 2 . iii–300 . 10.2307/4390693 . 4390693 . 1558-7185.
  13. News: 1932-05-14 . Agnes Newhall Engaged to Marry; Niece of Miss L. F. Newhall of Boston to Wed Professor Richard Stillwell; Both are Now in Greece; Bridegroom-to-Be, Princeton Graduate, Recently Named Head of American School at Athens . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-16 . 0362-4331.
  14. Mackay . Theodora Stillwell . 1975 . Three Poets Observe Picus . The American Journal of Philology . 96 . 3 . 272–275 . 10.2307/293840 . 293840 . 0002-9475.
  15. News: April 9, 1957 . Deaths in Jersey . 26 . Courier News . May 15, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  16. Web site: Camilla MacKay . 2023-05-16 . Bryn Mawr College.

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