Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch was an American city planner and social worker.

She was born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts to Laura Davis Holmes and Isaac Franklin Kingsbury . She graduated from Newton High School in 1886 and received her B.A. from Boston University, where she had been a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1890. During college she performed volunteer work in a teenage girls club at Bostons St. Augustines Episcopal Church, an African American congregation, and at St. Monicas Home for old colored women. After graduation she taught Latin in the Somerville, Massachusetts High School for two years. In 1894 she started a year of graduate school at Radcliffe College. In 1895 she attended the University of Berlin on a scholarship from the Womens Educational and Industrial Union. Her mother accompanied to Europe in the summer of 1895 and stayed in Berlin while school was in session. It was there that Mary met and became engaged to Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch , a Russian student of economics. During the summer of 1896 she and her friend Emily Greene Balc

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