From the Poughkeepsie Journal, 5 Jun 1944 page 4
Miss Ada Thurston, well known resident of this city and distinguished alumna of Vassar College, died last night at her home 7 Dwight Street. Miss Thurston had been in good health up to the time of her death. She was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Alfred Henry Thurston and Clarissa Turner Killey Thurston. NOTE: Father was Eliphalet A. Thurston, her brother was Alfred Henry.
Miss Thurston was graduated from Vassar College in 1880. She taught gymnastics in the college for three years and then at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for eight years. In 1901 and 1902, she studied library science at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the next year served as librarian at the Underwood library, Belmont, Mass.
Miss Thurston became associated with the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City upon its establishment in 1905 and remained a valued member of the staff until she retired in 1935 and returned to this city to make her home. Sidenote: She was included in the will of J. P. Morgan when he died in 1913, as a staff member of the library he left her $10,000.
After returning here, she revised and edited for publication the "Check List of Incunabula in the Pierpont Morgan Library" compiled from her extensive cataloguing of this material. Miss Thurston's services to Vassar college were many. She was secretary of the Alumna association from 1892 to 1895 and reelected to this office in 1898. She was a member of the gymnasium building committee of the Alumna association which raised funds for and built the first Vassar gymnasium (now Ely Hall) and presented it to the college in June, 1890.
From 1924 to 1929, Miss Thurston was an Alumna trustee serving for this period on the trustee committee on Art and Art collections, the library, the memorial tablet and faculty and studies.
Over a long period of years, Miss Thurston made many valuable gifts to the Vassar library and the Vassar classical museum. Miss Fanny Borden, Librarian, has begun to plan a memorial exhibition of her gifts.
Surviving, are a brother, Alfred Henry Thurston, Guilford, Conn,; a niece, Mrs. Ormond B. Riblet, New York City who graduated from Vassar in 1932; and a nephew, Frederick Thurston who is in the service. A sister, Miss Jennie Thurston, died approximately three years ago. (It was seven)
Miss Ada Thurston, well known resident of this city and distinguished alumna of Vassar College, died last night at her home 7 Dwight Street. Miss Thurston had been in good health up to the time of her death. She was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Alfred Henry Thurston and Clarissa Turner Killey Thurston. NOTE: Father was Eliphalet A. Thurston, her brother was Alfred Henry.
Miss Thurston was graduated from Vassar College in 1880. She taught gymnastics in the college for three years and then at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for eight years. In 1901 and 1902, she studied library science at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the next year served as librarian at the Underwood library, Belmont, Mass.
Miss Thurston became associated with the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City upon its establishment in 1905 and remained a valued member of the staff until she retired in 1935 and returned to this city to make her home. Sidenote: She was included in the will of J. P. Morgan when he died in 1913, as a staff member of the library he left her $10,000.
After returning here, she revised and edited for publication the "Check List of Incunabula in the Pierpont Morgan Library" compiled from her extensive cataloguing of this material. Miss Thurston's services to Vassar college were many. She was secretary of the Alumna association from 1892 to 1895 and reelected to this office in 1898. She was a member of the gymnasium building committee of the Alumna association which raised funds for and built the first Vassar gymnasium (now Ely Hall) and presented it to the college in June, 1890.
From 1924 to 1929, Miss Thurston was an Alumna trustee serving for this period on the trustee committee on Art and Art collections, the library, the memorial tablet and faculty and studies.
Over a long period of years, Miss Thurston made many valuable gifts to the Vassar library and the Vassar classical museum. Miss Fanny Borden, Librarian, has begun to plan a memorial exhibition of her gifts.
Surviving, are a brother, Alfred Henry Thurston, Guilford, Conn,; a niece, Mrs. Ormond B. Riblet, New York City who graduated from Vassar in 1932; and a nephew, Frederick Thurston who is in the service. A sister, Miss Jennie Thurston, died approximately three years ago. (It was seven)
From the Poughkeepsie Journal, 5 Jun 1944 page 4
Miss Ada Thurston, well known resident of this city and distinguished alumna of Vassar College, died last night at her home 7 Dwight Street. Miss Thurston had been in good health up to the time of her death. She was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Alfred Henry Thurston and Clarissa Turner Killey Thurston. NOTE: Father was Eliphalet A. Thurston, her brother was Alfred Henry.
Miss Thurston was graduated from Vassar College in 1880. She taught gymnastics in the college for three years and then at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for eight years. In 1901 and 1902, she studied library science at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the next year served as librarian at the Underwood library, Belmont, Mass.
Miss Thurston became associated with the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City upon its establishment in 1905 and remained a valued member of the staff until she retired in 1935 and returned to this city to make her home. Sidenote: She was included in the will of J. P. Morgan when he died in 1913, as a staff member of the library he left her $10,000.
After returning here, she revised and edited for publication the "Check List of Incunabula in the Pierpont Morgan Library" compiled from her extensive cataloguing of this material. Miss Thurston's services to Vassar college were many. She was secretary of the Alumna association from 1892 to 1895 and reelected to this office in 1898. She was a member of the gymnasium building committee of the Alumna association which raised funds for and built the first Vassar gymnasium (now Ely Hall) and presented it to the college in June, 1890.
From 1924 to 1929, Miss Thurston was an Alumna trustee serving for this period on the trustee committee on Art and Art collections, the library, the memorial tablet and faculty and studies.
Over a long period of years, Miss Thurston made many valuable gifts to the Vassar library and the Vassar classical museum. Miss Fanny Borden, Librarian, has begun to plan a memorial exhibition of her gifts.
Surviving, are a brother, Alfred Henry Thurston, Guilford, Conn,; a niece, Mrs. Ormond B. Riblet, New York City who graduated from Vassar in 1932; and a nephew, Frederick Thurston who is in the service. A sister, Miss Jennie Thurston, died approximately three years ago. (It was seven)
Miss Ada Thurston, well known resident of this city and distinguished alumna of Vassar College, died last night at her home 7 Dwight Street. Miss Thurston had been in good health up to the time of her death. She was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Alfred Henry Thurston and Clarissa Turner Killey Thurston. NOTE: Father was Eliphalet A. Thurston, her brother was Alfred Henry.
Miss Thurston was graduated from Vassar College in 1880. She taught gymnastics in the college for three years and then at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for eight years. In 1901 and 1902, she studied library science at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the next year served as librarian at the Underwood library, Belmont, Mass.
Miss Thurston became associated with the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City upon its establishment in 1905 and remained a valued member of the staff until she retired in 1935 and returned to this city to make her home. Sidenote: She was included in the will of J. P. Morgan when he died in 1913, as a staff member of the library he left her $10,000.
After returning here, she revised and edited for publication the "Check List of Incunabula in the Pierpont Morgan Library" compiled from her extensive cataloguing of this material. Miss Thurston's services to Vassar college were many. She was secretary of the Alumna association from 1892 to 1895 and reelected to this office in 1898. She was a member of the gymnasium building committee of the Alumna association which raised funds for and built the first Vassar gymnasium (now Ely Hall) and presented it to the college in June, 1890.
From 1924 to 1929, Miss Thurston was an Alumna trustee serving for this period on the trustee committee on Art and Art collections, the library, the memorial tablet and faculty and studies.
Over a long period of years, Miss Thurston made many valuable gifts to the Vassar library and the Vassar classical museum. Miss Fanny Borden, Librarian, has begun to plan a memorial exhibition of her gifts.
Surviving, are a brother, Alfred Henry Thurston, Guilford, Conn,; a niece, Mrs. Ormond B. Riblet, New York City who graduated from Vassar in 1932; and a nephew, Frederick Thurston who is in the service. A sister, Miss Jennie Thurston, died approximately three years ago. (It was seven)
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