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Lucy Winsor Killough
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Lucy Burton Winsor, later Killough, from the 1919 yearbook of Vassar College
Born
Lucy Burton Winsor

April 16, 1897
Clinton, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedOctober 9, 1989 (age 92)
Delray Beach, Florida, U.S.
OccupationEconomist
FatherFrank E. Winsor

Lucy Burton Winsor Killough (April 16, 1897 – October 9, 1989) was an American economist and professor. She taught in the economics department at Wellesley College from 1929 to 1962, and was co-author of several college textbooks.

Early life and education

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Winsor was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, the daughter of civil engineer Frank E. Winsor and Catherine Holbrook Burton Winsor. She graduated from Vassar College in 1919.[1] She earned a master's thesis in economics at Stanford University in 1921,[2] and completed doctoral studies in economics at Columbia University in 1925.[3][4]

Career

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Killough joined the faculty at Wellesley College in 1929,[5] became a full professor in 1947,[6] and was chair of the economics department for seven years. She co-wrote several economics textbooks with her husband, Hugh B. Killough, who was the chair of the economics department at Brown University. Both Killoughs retired in 1962.[3]

During and after World War II, from 1943 to 1947,[7] Killough worked in Washington, D.C., as a statistician and analyst for the Foreign Economic Administration. She taught English in Taiwan in 1951, while her husband was a visiting economic advisor there. She was active in the American Association of University Women (AAUW). In retirement, she taught at Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, before moving to Stuart, Florida, in 1964.[3]

Publications

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  • Swindling in the Sale of Securities and the Blue Sky Law as a Remedy (1920)[4]
  • "The Tobacco Products Industry in New York and Its Environs: Present Trends and Probable Future Developments" (1924, Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs)[8]
  • "Price Making Forces in Cotton Markets" (1926, with Hugh B. Killough)[9]
  • "Chemical, metal, wood, tobacco and printing industries, present trends and probable future developments" (1928)[10]
  • Raw Materials of Industrialism (1929, textbook, with Hugh B. Killough)[11]
  • "Tax Exempt Industries in Rhode Island" (1940)[12]
  • Economics of International Trade (1948, textbook, with Hugh B. Killough)[13]
  • International Economics (1960, textbook, with Hugh B. Killough)[14]

Personal life

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Winsor married fellow economist Hugh Baxter Killough in 1923; they had a daughter, Ann.[15] Her husband died in 1976, and she died in 1989, at the age of 92, in Delray Beach, Florida.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Vassar College, The Vassarion (1919 yearbook): 111; via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Wellesley Club Will Hear Address by Mrs. Killough". Evening Express. 1958-10-20. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2025-06-01. Retrieved 2025-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c Auleta, Alice (1976-06-04). "Lucy Winsor Killough--Educator". The Stuart News. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Killough, Lucy Burton Winsor (1920). Swindling in the Sale of Securities and the Blue Sky Law as a Remedy. Stanford University.
  5. ^ "Dinner Set Thursday by Wellesley Club". The Bridgeport Post. 1959-10-12. p. 22. Retrieved 2025-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b "Lucy Winsor Killough; Wellesley College teacher; at 93". The Boston Globe. 1989-10-11. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "Obituary for Lucy Killough". The Stuart News. 1989-10-21. p. 14. Retrieved 2025-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Killough, Lucy Winsor (1924). The tobacco products industry in New York and its environs : present trends and probable future developments. Economic series. Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. Archived from the original on 2025-06-01. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
  9. ^ Hugh, B.; and Killough, Lucy W. (1926-03-01). "Price Making Forces in Cotton Markets". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 21 (153): 47–54. doi:10.1080/01621459.1926.10502157. ISSN 0162-1459.
  10. ^ Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs.; Hinrichs, Albert Ford; Killough, Lucy Winsor; Mills, Mark Carter.; Lanfear, V. W.; Newcomer, Mabel (1928). Chemical, metal, wood, tobacco and printing industries, present trends and probable future developments ... Regional survey of New York and its environs,v. 1A. New York: Regional plan of New York and its environs.
  11. ^ Killough, Hugh B.; Killough, Lucy Winsor (1929). Raw materials of industrialism. New York: T.Y. Crowell Co.
  12. ^ Killough, Lucy W. (1940-11-01). "Tax Exempt Industries in Rhode Island". The Bulletin of the National Tax Association. 26 (2): 34–50. doi:10.1086/bullnattax41787013. ISSN 2327-8706.
  13. ^ Killough, Hugh Baxter; Killough, Lucy Winsor (1948). Economics of International Trade. McGraw-Hill Book Company.
  14. ^ Killough, Hugh B.; Killough, Lucy Winsor (1960). International economics. Van Nostrand series in business administration and economics. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand. Archived from the original on 2024-07-22. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
  15. ^ "Ann W. Killough". The Boston Globe. 2018-09-02. pp. B12. Retrieved 2025-06-01 – via Newspapers.com.
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