Kate Elderkin

Kate Elderkin
A young white woman with short hair
Kate Denny McKnight, later Elderkin, from the 1919 yearbook of Vassar College
Born
Kate Denny McKnight

February 14, 1897
San Diego, California, U.S.
DiedFebruary 16, 1962 (aged 65)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation(s)Art historian, archaeologist
RelativesElizabeth Pierce Blegen (cousin)

Kate Denny McKnight Elderkin (February 14, 1897[1] – February 16, 1962) was an American art historian and archaeologist. She taught at Vassar College and was an editor of the American Journal of Archaeology with her husband, George W. Elderkin.

  1. ^ Birth date and father's name from Kate Denny McKnight's 1920 application for a United States passport; historian Ida Thallon Hill, her cousin's partner, vouched for McKnight's citizenship on the same form; via Ancestry.