Georgie Smith Boynton Child (August 8, 1873 – December 10, 1945) was an American efficiency expert, writer, and business manager.
Georgie Boynton Child | |
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 Georgie Boynton Child, from a 1914 publication. | |
| Born | Georgie Smith Boynton August 8, 1873 Woodbridge, New Jersey |
| Died | December 10, 1945 (aged 72) Princeton, New Jersey |
| Occupation(s) | Efficiency expert, writer |
Early life
editGeorgie Smith Boynton was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the daughter of Casimir Whitman Boynton and Eunice Adelia Harriman Boynton.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1895.[2][3]
Her older sister Louise Boynton was the partner and personal secretary of actress Maude Adams, for almost fifty years.[4]
Career
editFrom 1897 to 1903, Child was co-owner (with her sister Louise) and business manager at the Perth Amboy Daily Republican, a daily newspaper.[5][6] In 1911, she and her family moved into the Housekeeping Experiment Station in Stamford, Connecticut.[1][2][7] Her book, The Efficient Kitchen: Definite Directions for the Planning, Arranging, and Equipping of the Modern Labor Saving Kitchen; A Practical Book for the Homemaker (1914), was based on the Stamford project.[8] Her advice included tips such as "Keep nothing in the kitchen that is not used every day" and "Have narrow shelves with one row of things on each."[9] She wrote a series of articles for The Delineator,[10][11][12] and gave lectures on household efficiency. Her profession was listed as "household engineer" in a 1914 profile.[1]
A new edition of the book was published in 1926, to include more information about electrical wiring, lighting and appliances.[13] In 1932, Child and Louise Boynton published The Golden Grains, a book of economical recipes.[14][15]
Personal life
editGeorgie Boynton married mining chemist and metallurgist Alfred Thurston Child in 1903; playwright Anne Crawford Flexner, Boynton's friend from Vassar, was matron of honor at the ceremony.[16] They had four children, Alfred Thurston, Jr., Eunice Adelia, Margaret Lyon, and Louise Boynton.[17] She died in 1945, in Princeton, New Jersey, aged 72 years. Her grandson Richard M. Freeland served as President of Northeastern University and Commissioner of Education for Massachusetts.
References
edit- ^ a b c Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American Commonwealth Company. p. 175.
- ^ a b Child, Georgie Boynton (November 17, 1914). "The Housekeeping Experiment Station at Stamford, Connecticut". Vassar Miscellany. p. 47-50. Retrieved June 23, 2020 – via Hudson River Valley Heritage.
- ^ College, Vassar (1895). Annual Catalogue. p. 65.
- ^ Fields, Armond (2004-07-08). Maude Adams: Idol of American Theater, 1872-1953. McFarland. pp. 299–301. ISBN 978-0-7864-1927-2.
- ^ "Why the Housekeeping Experiment Station is of Much Interest Here". Perth Amboy Evening News. 1914-04-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-06-24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Two Wealthy Girls Conduct Daily Paper". Los Angeles Herald. June 10, 1901. p. 2. Retrieved June 24, 2020 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ Marshall, Marguerite Mooers (1912-08-29). "Why is a Happy Marriage, Explained by Couple who Have 'Systematized' Home". The Evening World. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-06-24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Child, Georgie Boynton (1914). The efficient kitchen; definite directions for the planning, arranging and equipping of the modern labor-saving kitchen. A practical book for the home-maker. New York: McBridge, Nast & Company.
- ^ Vestal, Avis Gordon (July 1914). "The Efficient Kitchen". The Threshermen's Review. 23: 32, 34.
- ^ Child, Georgie Boynton (April 1915). "Weapons for the Spring Assault upon Dirt". The Delineator. 86: 22.
- ^ Child, Georgie Boynton (April 1915). "Just How to do the Washing". The Delineator. 86: 23.
- ^ Child, Alfred T. and Georgie Boynton (May 1915). "A New Era in the Country Kitchen". The Delineator. 86: 29.
- ^ "New Book on Kitchen". Dayton Daily News. 1926-02-11. p. 19. Retrieved 2020-06-24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Energy for Winter is Found in Cereal Menu". Oklahoma City Advertiser. 1933-11-10. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-06-24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Boynton, Louise; Child, Georgie Boynton (1932). The Golden Grains. Clark-Sprague Company.
- ^ "Were Married in Sewaren". Perth Amboy Evening News. 1903-06-25. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-06-24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bowen, Clarence Winthrop (1930). The History of Woodstock, Genealogies of Woodstock Families, Volume 3. The Plimpton Press. pp. 602–603.
