Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-15
NRS. STEVENSON
| Dies At AGE OF Il
Scientist, Author, Society
| eader and Peggy shippen,'
Of the Public Ledger
4 HAVE MET. FoCH TODAY

~, Cornelius Stevenson, noted
'..o,oo,st and author, officer of
.,,ic lny.rnciion Of France, .ChevdIicr
,he Legion of Honor and holder ofthe.
u t..,o,E, Service Medal of the National
..,,,rte OF Social Sciences, and the
CO. shippcn" of the PUBLIC
srsre stair. died at her home, 237
6a.,b twenty first street, at i, O'Clock
kss,srday afternoon. :,
Tsa cansc Of her death was cerebral
nio folTowing upon serious digestive
eni,cotlons OF long duration. Mrs.
pn.on was conscious until within nm
~ 80 ber death. in the morning she
% sste1 for her mail and wished to
= letter in French, supposedly
,,stlng to Marshal Focl'
w. Stevenson had thought a great
~ ohont the coming Of Marshal Foch,
.S she was to have Snt next to the
French soldier at tonight : ban
IN in his honor.
We StpvenSOn's career was most re-
..ssblc Few women Of her day were
recinipnts of so many honors. Her
s,eer and ber interests we're interna-
nnal. = ,,,, o.oou
4. becsmr literary editor of the IGB-
N LrpGrR, il lACS. and IN addition
hook reviews. she wrote the famous
Estcles signed peggy Shippen,"
MN gave her the pen mime that be-
ma kno&n far beyond the confines of
kIladelphia. .,
Wrs Stevenson would have celebrated
" seventy fourth birthday next
Esnth. On several former birthday an
IEsrsaries the occasion had been made
a d general observance, accompanied
An. outpOuring Of men and women
Al delighted in knowing her. On her
rentieth birthday anniversary q por-
m of Mrs. Stevenson by Leopold
,yfert was presented to the University
pseum.
NHer interest covered many fields and
pyrried her into many countries, In
6lladelpha society she occupied a pO-
zion Of admiration and esteem, OF
amor and Of love. She was n PhilHdcl-
|hIaa and her family had old PhiIadcl-
Ma connections.
VMrs. Stevenson was born in Paris.
y,r maiden name was Sara Yorke. and
II was the daughter of Edward and
Ira Hanna YOrkc. She received her
kIy education in Paris, at the Cours
|,my and the InStitpt Dcscaurlet. From
Psris she went to her two brothers in
i,Yico, in 1862. at the time of Maxi
6Illan's unhappy imperial experiment,
|pd there she lived until 1867. In
Loo her "reminiscences OF those yeats
,re published under the title Maxi.
lillian in Mexico" She was married
Cornelius Stevenson, of Philadelphia,
b June 30. 1870.
| Her interest in archaeology from her
hrliest studies had been intense, and
1850. with the aid of DIR. Daniel
hinton and others. she formed the
Neurological Association, which in
E4, through DR.. William Peppers
loperNtion. became the Department
j Archaeology OF the University Of
pennsylvania.
At first curator Ct its Egyptian and
editerraucan sections, Mrs. Stevenson
scame SucCcsSivcly secretary and pres
lent Of the department, and was elected
e sole woman member of the Oriental
Gluh She was also one of two women
bembers Of the American Philosophical
Ociety. Invited to lecture at the Pea
pdy Museum Of Harvard, she was the
|rst woman whose name appeared in
pch a connection on the official calen-
r Of that university.
The University of Pennsylvania made
ln. Stevenson doctor Of science in
E94-thc first honorary degree it had
'tstowed upon II WOmaa--and later
temple University made her Il doctor of
ftters.
Hand in hand with DR.. Pepper. Mrs,
teycnSOn successfully laborcd to raise
unds--ih the amount of $500 ,OO0-to
Iuild the first section ot the University
Euseum, which was opened t" the pub.
2c in 1899, When, two years before,
'resi dent Mckinley came to the city
open the Commercial Museum, Mrs.