Mary G. Keyes Explained

Mary G. Keyes
Birth Name:Mary Gertrude Keyes
Birth Date:February 24, 1904
Birth Place:Luray, Virginia, U.S.
Death Date:May 8, 1984 (age 80)
Death Place:Riverside, California, U.S.
Occupation:Government researcher, chemist

Mary Gertrude Keyes (February 24, 1904 – May 8, 1984) was an American musician and research chemist based in Washington, D.C., and later in Riverside, California. She co-wrote papers with geologist Henry Stephens Washington in the 1920s.

Early life and education

Keyes was born in Luray, Virginia, the daughter of Charles Wesley Keyes and Mary Ela Zerkel Keyes.[1] [2] Her father was an accountant, and her mother was a singer. Her grandfather Lemuel Zerkel was superintendent of Luray Caverns,[3] and her uncle Lemuel F. Zerkel was U.S. Park Commissioner at Shenandoah National Park.[4] Keyes studied violin and her sister Elizabeth trained as a harpist; the sisters performed as a chamber music ensemble in the 1920s,[5] [6] [7] and gave radio concerts together.[8] [9]

Career

Keyes worked in the Petrographic Laboratory the United States Geological Survey as a young woman, preparing thin sections of rock samples for analysis.[10] [11] She assisted Henry Stephens Washington in the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington in the 1920s.[12] [13] In addition to her work with Washington, Keyes analyzed samples for Reginald Aldworth Daly's "The Geology of Saint Helena Island" (1927), Bailey Willis's Studies in Comparative Seismology: Earthquake Conditions in Chile (1929) and other reports.[14] [15] [16]

In the 1940s Keyes was a scientific aide in the Division of Soil Chemistry and Physics in the United States Department of Agriculture. After World War II, she was a soil chemist on the staff of the Rubidoux Laboratory in Riverside, California.[17] [18] [19] She trained visiting agricultural scientists on techniques of water analysis, through a program supported by UNESCO.

Publications

Personal life

Keyes moved to California with Eleanor Hall in the mid-1940s.[28] She died in 1984, at the age of 80, in Riverside, California, survived by her sister, Elizabeth Keyes Loewenstein.[29] Her nephew Jared Loewenstein was a librarian at the University of Virginia, known for building the school's collection of Jorge Luis Borges materials.[30] Her other nephew, Peter J. Loewenstein, was a vice president at National Public Radio.[31]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1939-01-22 . Charles Wesley Keyes (death notice) . 2024-09-07 . Evening star . 12.
  2. News: August 25, 1960 . Miss Keyes Visiting Here . Page News and Courier . 8B . Virginia Chronicle.
  3. News: August 24, 1937 . Lemuel Zerkel and Wife . Page News and Courier . 6 . Virginia Chronicle.
  4. News: 1962-04-18 . Lemuel F. Zerkel, 76, Park Director at Shenandoah . 2024-09-07 . Evening star . 28 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1927-04-02 . String Ensemble at Broad Street . 2024-09-07 . Richmond Times-Dispatch . 8 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1927-05-08 . Local Girls Present Concert in Kensington . 2024-09-07 . Evening star . 73 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1927-04-03 . Musicgraphs . 2024-09-07 . Evening star . 71 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: 1924-09-26 . Local Radio Entertainment . 2024-09-07 . Evening Star . 38 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: 1927-04-18 . Radio Programs . 2024-09-07 . The Baltimore Sun . 14 . Newspapers.com.
  10. Book: Vivo . Benedetto De . Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei, and Campanian Volcanism . Belkin . Harvey E. . Rolandi . Giuseppe . 2019-10-11 . Elsevier . 978-0-12-817518-7 . 18–19 . en.
  11. News: February 26, 1926 . Locals . Page News and Courier . 1 . Virginia Chronicle.
  12. Book: Carnegie Institution of Washington . Staff of Investigators . 1925 . en.
  13. Book: Carnegie Institution of Washington . Year Book . 1928 . Carnegie Institution of Washington . 83 . en.
  14. Daly . Reginald A. . March 1927 . The Geology of Saint Helena Island . Daedalus . 62 . 2 . 65, 66, 67, 69 . Internet Archive.
  15. Book: Willis, Bailey . Studies in comparative seismology; earthquake conditions in Chile . 1929 . Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington . University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . 173.
  16. Newhouse . W. H. . Glass . J. P. . November 1936 . Some Physical Properties of Certain Iron Oxides . Economic Geology . 31 . 7 . 701 . 10.2113/gsecongeo.31.7.699 . Internet Archive.
  17. Book: Regional Salinity Laboratory (U.S.) . Report to Collaborators . 1950 . U.S. Regional Salinity Laboratory . en.
  18. Book: Directory of Organization and Field Activities of the Department of Agriculture, 1947 . 1948 . U.S. Department of Agriculture . 55 . en.
  19. News: 1948-01-23 . Housewarming Given for Couple . 2024-09-07 . Riverside Daily Press . 11 . Newspapers.com.
  20. Keyes . M. G. . 1925-12-01 . Making thin sections of rocks . American Journal of Science . en . s5-10 . 60 . 538–550 . 10.2475/ajs.s5-10.60.538 . 0002-9599.
  21. Washington, H. S., M. Aurousseau, Mary G. Keyes. "The Lavas of Etna" The American Journal of Science 12(1926): 371-408.
  22. Washington . H. S. . Keyes . Mary G. . 1926 . Rocks of Eastern China . Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences . 16 . 11 . 291–301 . 24529198 . 0043-0439.
  23. Washington . H. S. . Keyes . Mary G. . 1927 . Rocks of the Galápagos Islands . Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences . 17 . 21 . 538–543 . 24522516 . 0043-0439.
  24. Washington, Henry S., and Mary G. Keyes, "Petrology of the Hawaiian Islands VI: Maui" The American Journal of Science 15(April 1928): 199-220.
  25. Anderson, Myron Sallee, Mary G. Keyes, and George W. Cromer. "Soluble material of soils in relation to their classification and general fertility." Technical Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture 813(June 1942).
  26. Stewart, William S., Mary G. Keyes, and M. S. Anderson. "Extraction of auxin from virgin soils." Soil Science 53, no. 4 (1942): 299-308.
  27. Bower . C. A. . Wilcox . L. V. . Akin . G. W. . Keyes . Mary G. . January 1965 . An Index of the Tendency of CaCO3 to Precipitate from Irrigation Waters . Soil Science Society of America Journal . en . 29 . 1 . 91–92 . 10.2136/sssaj1965.03615995002900010027x . 0361-5995.
  28. News: 1945-10-22 . What Monrovians are Doing . 2024-09-07 . Monrovia News-Post . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  29. News: 1987-12-10 . Elizabeth Keyes Loewenstein . 2024-09-07 . The Daily Progress . 26 . Newspapers.com.
  30. Web site: Rathbone . Emma . Borges in Charlottesville: How the work of a Latin-American literary giant found a home at UVA . 2024-09-07 . Virginia Magazine . en.
  31. Web site: 2018-12-14 . CPB names NPR's Peter Loewenstein Recipient of 2002 Murrow Award . 2024-09-07 . Corporation for Public Broadcasting . en.

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