Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (January 1, 1870 – August 29, 1954) was an American zoologist and professor of natural science.
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| Born | Agnes Mary Claypole January 1, 1870 |
| Died | August 29, 1954 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Buchtel College (1892), Cornell University (M.S., 1894) |
| Spouse | Dr. Robert O. Moody |
| Parent(s) | Edward Waller Claypole Jane Trotter |
| Relatives | Edith Claypole (sister) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
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Early life and education
editAgnes Mary Claypole Moody was born in Bristol, England to Jane (Trotter) and Edward Waller Claypole. She had a twin sister, Edith Jane Claypole (1870–1915), who was also a biologist.[1] She attended Buchtel College, and in 1894 she attended Cornell University for her master's degree. She completed doctoral work at the University of Chicago in 1896.[2]
For her Master of Science thesis, Moody studied the digestive tract of eels.[3] Her 1896 doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago was titled "The Embryology and Oögenesis of Anurida maritima."[4] Following completion of her doctorate, Moody served as an assistant at Cornell University despite her PhD, as women were relegated to the lowest ranks of faculty at the time.[5]
Career
editMoody was the first woman appointed to a teaching position in the Medical Department of Cornell University.[6]
She worked in various positions at Throop College, (now California Institute of Technology), including as instructor in Zoology, and as Professor of Natural Science and Curator (1903-4).[3] Moody was a longtime member of the city council in Berkeley, California, from 1923 to 1932.[7] She was also elected to Berkeley's school board,[8] served as chair of the Berkeley Girl Scout Council,[9] and was a member of Berkeley's League of Women Voters.[10] She served a term as president of the Berkeley Civic League, and was appointed to the Berkeley Charities Commission.[11] Of her community work, a local historian in 1928 commented that "No woman of Alameda County has made a deeper impression on the educational and civil life of the community than Mrs. Agnes Claypole Moody."[12]
There was a Girl Scout camp near Berkeley named Camp Agnes Moody, after Dr. Moody, in the 1930s.[13]
Personal life
editAgnes Mary Claypole married Robert Orton Moody (an anatomy professor who was the son of Mary Blair Moody[12]) in 1903 in Pasadena.[14] She was widowed when he died in 1948.[15] Agnes Claypole Moody died on August 29, 1954.[16]
References
edit- ^ "Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954) Smithsonian Biography". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ^ Joy Harvey; Marilyn Ogilvie, eds. (27 July 2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives ..., Volume 1. Taylor & Francis US. p. 266. ISBN 9780203801451. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ^ a b Kiser, Cynthia N. (23 November 2004). "The Prehistory of Biology at the Institute". California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ Jane Maienschein, "Whitman at Chicago: Establishing a Chicago Style of Biology?" in Ronald Rainger and Keith R. Benson, The American Development of Biology (Rutgers University Press 1991): 175. ISBN 9780813517025
- ^ Rossiter, Margaret (1980). ""Women's Work" in Science, 1880-1910". Isis. 71 (3): 381–398. doi:10.1086/352540. JSTOR 230118. S2CID 143706974.
- ^ "Obituary". The British Medical Journal. 2 (1974): 1375. 29 October 1898. PMC 2434529.
- ^ "Mrs. Moody Will Leave City Council" Oakland Tribune (March 30, 1932): 19. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Berkeley, Calif., Turns Down the Socialists" Topeka Daily Capital (April 7, 1913): 1. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Course for Leaders of Girls Scheduled" Oakland Tribune (March 14, 1935): 20. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Emma Lue Kopp, "A Brief History of the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville" LWVBAE.org (May 13, 1995).
- ^ "Mrs. Agnes Moody Appointed to Office" Oakland Tribune (January 11, 1921): 1. via Newspapers.com
- ^ a b Frank Clinton Merritt, History of Alameda County, California, Vol. 2 (S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928): 247-248.
- ^ "Camp Agnes Moody" Archived 2016-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Vintage Girl Scout website.
- ^ Untitled social note, Covina Argus (August 1, 1903): 4. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Robert Orton Moody, Anatomy: Berkeley" University of California: In Memoriam, 1948 (UC History Digital Archives).
- ^ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, via FamilySearch Agnes Claypole Moody, 29 Aug 1954; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
