Leta stetter hollingsworth biography of alberta

American psychologist, specializing in women, education, and gifted children, who statistically took on erroneous gender assumptions and wrote the highly regarded Psychology of the Adolescent.Born Leta Anna Stetter near Chadron, Nebraska, on May 25, 1886; died in New York, New York, on November 27, 1939; buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Nebraska; daughter of Margaret Elinor (Danley) Stetter and John G.

Stetter; attended Valentine High School, Valentine, Nebraska, 1902; granted A.B., University of Nebraska, 1906; A.M., Columbia University, 1913; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1916; married Harry L. Holling-worth, New York, New York, on December 31, 1906.

Death of her mother (1889); moved to Valentine, Nebraska (1898); moved to New York City (1908); took position with the New York Clearing-House for Mental Defectives (1913); took position with the New York City Civil Service (1914); studied infants at the New York Infirmary for Women and