Contains personal files, correspondence, writings, research files, departmental and university files, and lecture notes documenting her education and career from 1905 to 1967.

Agnes Fay Morgan was born on May 4, 1884 in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Patrick John and Mary Josephine (Dooley) Fay. She received her bachelors and masters degrees in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1904 and 1905 respectively. After marrying one of her students, Arthur I. Morgan, at the University of Montana and teaching briefly at the University of Washington, Morgan returned to the University of Chicago, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1914.

Number of containers: 12 boxes, 2 oversize folders Linear feet: 4.7

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