MacGill, Helen (Hughes) 

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_MacGill_Hughes
    • Helen MacGill was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1903. Her mother was Helen Gregory MacGill, and her father was James Henry MacGill, a lawyer. She was close with her sister, Elsie MacGill, who became an aeronautical engineer and served on the first Royal Commission on the Status of Women.
    • In 1925, Helen MacGill graduated from the University of British Columbia, where she had studied economics and German, and she was considering graduate school in the United States when she met Professor Robert Park. Park offered MacGill a Laura Spelman Rockefeller fellowship at the University of Chicago’s sociology department. MacGill accepted and lived with Park and his family for a while before marrying another of Park’s students, Everett Cherrington Hughes, in Vancouver on August 18, 1927.
    • Together, the couple had two daughters: Helen Hughes-Brock and Elizabeth G.R. Hughes Schneewind. The couple continued living in Chicago until 1961, when they moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that Everett Hughes could join the faculty at Brandeis University. Subsequently, Helen MacGill Hughes held part-time research positions at Brandeis University and Harvard University.
    • Helen MacGill Hughes died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1992.
  • Fourth Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=6573
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42696755/helen_elizabeth_gregory-hughes