Grace Mead de Laguna (28 September 1878 – 17 February 1978) was an American philosopher who taught at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
Life
Grace Mead Andrus was born on 28 September 1878 in East Berlin, Connecticut.[1] She was the youngest child, and only daughter, of Wallace R. Andrus and Annis Andrus (née Mead).[1][2] Both parents were of Connecticut ancestry dating back to the 17th century.[2][3] Her mother, Annis, had been a school teacher.[1] Her father had served with the 17th Connecticut Volunteers during the Civil War,[2][4] He would later work as a land agent for the Northern Pacific Railway whilst it was being built.[4] This led to the family moving, whilst Grace was young, to the (then) Washington Territory, first to Cheney, then Tacoma, where she received a pioneer upbringing.[1][2]
Grace Andrus took the AB from Cornell University in 1903, where she was Phi Beta Kappa.[5] And, upon presentation of a dissertation titled “The Mechanical Theory in Pre-Kantian Rationalism”, she received her PhD in philosophy there in 1906.[2][5]
Whilst studying for the latter she met Theodore de Laguna, an instructor there, whom she married in 1905.[4][5][6]
After holding a position at the University of Michigan from 1905,[6] Theodore served, from 1907, as a professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.[7] Grace became an assistant professor there in 1912, an associate professor in 1916 and a full professor in 1928.[2][5][8] She became chair of philosophy at Bryn Mawr after Theodore's death in 1930.[4][5][9] She would retire as Professor Emerita in 1944.[1] She continued to write, publishing her third book in 1963.[5]
^ abcdeMontoya, Leopoldo M. (2000). "De Laguna, Grace Mead (1878-1978), philosopher". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2001773. ISBN978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved 2019-08-31. de Laguna, Grace Mead (28 September 1878–17 February 1978), philosopher, was born Grace Mead Andrus in East Berlin, Connecticut, the daughter of Wallace R. Andrus, a soldier and accountant, and Annis Mead, a schoolteacher. De Laguna received a pioneer upbringing. In 1883, when she was about four years old, the family moved to Cheney in what is now eastern Washington State ... where she attended a small school. They later moved to Tacoma where de Laguna went to high school...
^ abStearns, Isabel S. (1978). "Grace Andrus de Laguna 1878-1978". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 51 (5): 577–578. ISSN0065-972X. JSTOR3129815.
^ abHinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron); Demmon, Isaac Newton (1906). History of the University of Michigan. Cornell University Library. Ann Arbor : Published by the University. THEODORE DE LEO de LAGUNA was born at Oakland, California, July 22, 1876, son of Alexander de Leo and Frederica Henrietta (Bergner) de Laguna. On the father's side he is of Spanish, French, and Italian origin; his maternal ancestry is German. After a preparatory training in the public schools of his native place he entered the University of California, and was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1896 and Master of Arts three years later. He pursued post-graduate studies at Cornell University, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1901. He taught in the Philippine Islands from 1901 to 1903, after which he returned to this country and was Honorary Fellow in Philosophy at Cornell University in 1903-1904, and Assistant in Philosophy the following year. In 1905 he accepted a call to the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Education. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association. He has contributed articles on Ethics and Aesthetics to "The Philosophical Review" and to the first volume of the University of California Publications in Philosophy. He was married September 9, 1905, to Grace Mead Andrus.
^Anellis, Irving H. (2005). "de Laguna, Theodore de Leo (1876–1930)". The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Shook, John R., Hull, Richard T. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum. ISBN9781849723589. OCLC276357640.
^ abMcClellan, Catharine. “Frederica De Laguna and the Pleasures of Anthropology.” Arctic Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 2, 2006, pp. 28–44. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40316665. [free to read with registration] from page 32: "After her husband's death she continued to teach at Bryn Mawr, chairing the department of philosophy and becoming the first woman president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). "Deily," as she preferred to be called, accompanied or joined Freddy on Alaskan field trips four times. In 1931 and 1932 she was in Yukon Island in Kachemak Bay and in 1933 on Prince William Sound, where she helped with the cooking and cataloguing. In 1954 she went north again when Freddy was doing ethnography in Yakutat. Mother and daughter spent several sabbaticals or summers together both in the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest and in 1959 they were in Berkeley where Freddy was a visiting professor. Over the years Deily thus came to know well several anthropologists and their major intellectual positions. In 1961 she debated Clyde Kluckhohn on anthropological relativism at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held in Philadelphia, taking the position that certain cultural universals do exist..."
1920s portrait of Grace with her husband and children, 1934 photograph of Grace on one of her daughter's field trips to Alaska, here at JSTOR (free to read with registration)
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