Pope, Louise Isabelle Marshall (M.S., Textiles and Clothing, 1940)

Headshot of Louise Isabelle Marshall

Louise Isabelle Marshall was born on 22 July 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Thomas Marshall, a mail carrier, and his wife Harriet “Hattie” E. Lewis Marshall. While attending Lincoln University, an HBCU in Jefferson City, MO, Marshall was a staff member of the Archives yearbook, the Y.W.C.A., and the Alpha Iota Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

She earned a Bachelor’s of Science at Lincoln University in 1938 before heading to Ames, Iowa, where she earned a master’s degree in Textiles and Clothing in 1940. Her master’s thesis was entitled Micro-determination of water absorption in cotton fibers. Between 1939 and 1940 she lived at 1204 3rd Street, the Walter Madison family home.

On 6 August 1945, Louise married Alonzo Howard Pope in Boise, Idaho (Ancestry, n.d.). By 1950, the couple and their two sons, Alonzo, Jr., and Thomas, were living in Chicago, Illinois, where Louise was a homemaker and Alonzo, Sr., was employed as an office manager for Cook County Department of Public Welfare, Old Age Division.

Louise Isabelle Marshall Pope died in DeKalb, Georgia, on 14 February 1986 and is buried in Crest Lawn Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.

Iowa State College Thesis Title: Micro-determination of water absorption in cotton fibers, 1940 

Iowa State University Library Digital Repository Link: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/17679 

Sources

Photo credit: Lincoln University. (1938). The Archives, 1938, p. 41. Retrieved from https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/lincyrbk2/id/5876/rec/10

Ancestry.com. (n.d.). Idaho, U.S., county marriage records, 1864-1967. Louise Isabelle Marshall, Ada County, Marriage Ledger: 1945.

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