136:(1885â1961) was a noted teacher, historian and writer, who specialized in American history, and particularly the history of the Southwest. Born in what was then Indian Territory to a family of mixed Choctaw and European ancestry, she earned doctoral degrees from University of California, Berkeley (1915) and University of Oklahoma (1930). She was the first woman to receive a Ph. D. at the University of Oklahoma. Lewis spent her educational career at the Oklahoma College for Women (now the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO)). She wrote two books and numerous articles for publications in her area of interest before retiring in 1956 to a home she had built in southern Oklahoma (the former Choctaw Nation before Oklahoma became a state). She died in 1961.
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October 25, 1885, near the town of Cameron in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Of mixed Choctaw and European ancestry, her parents were William Ainsworth Lewis and Betty Ann (nÊe Moore). She was the fourth of ten children, three of whom died in childhood. She got her first
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An undated news clipping describing the transfer of the former
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In her academic career, Lewis specialized in
American history and the history of the Southwest, rapidly becoming well known as a teacher, lecturer and writer, as well as a popular after-dinner speaker. Although she wrote only two books,
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education in what were known as "subscription schools" and from private teachers at home. Her higher education began at the
Tuskahoma Female Institute in 1900. She then went to Mary Connor Junior College in
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By her second year at OCW, Lewis had been named the chair of the school's
History Department. She also took on the position of school Registrar, to help President G. W. Austin organize that office. Dean
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An online collection of documents and photographs either by or related to Dr. Anna Lewis selected from materials archived at
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She was a member or honorary member of many organizations such as the
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Anna Lewis as pictured in the 1926 Oklahoma College for Women yearbook
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Posthumously inducted to Oklahoma Educator Hall of Fame in 1985.
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