Shields, Emily Ledyard, 1883-1964

found: Averrois Cordubensis Compendia librorum Aristotelis qui Parva naturalia vocanture, 1949:t.p. (Aemelia Ledyard Shields)

found: RLIN, June 2, 1999(hdg.: Sheilds, Emily Ledyard, 1883-; usage: Emily Ledyard Shields; Aemelia Ledyard Shields)

found: Juno : a study in early Roman religion, 1926:title page (Emily Ledyard Shields)

found: Find A Grave, via WWW, April 22, 2015(Emily Ledyard Shields; born August 29, 1883 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, daughter of Frank E. Shields and Laura Taylor; by 1900, Emily had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended St. Louis High School and pursued a classical course of studies, graduating at the head of her class in January 1901; in October of the same year she entered Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in June 1905 and her Master of Arts degree in June 1906; after graduating from Bryn Mawr, she studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Berlin (1907-1908); returning to America, she attended the Johns Hopkins University (1910-1911) and the University of Chicago (summer 1913); the years 1913-1915 she spent at the Johns Hopkins University pursuing courses in Classical Archaeology, Greek and Latin, receiving her Ph. D. in Classical Archaeology in 1915; her thesis, "The Cults of Lesbos", submitted to John Hopkins as a requirement to receive her Ph. D., was published in book form in 1917; Emily taught at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1915 until at least 1948; she is most often referred to as a professor of Latin; in the 1949 City Directory of Northampton, Emily is listed as "removed to South Carolina;" from that point, until her death in 1964, no further information on Emily has been found; she died on March 24. 1964 in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina)