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Kathryn Agar

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Agar was born in Chicago, the daughter of James Scanlon Agar and Minnie Adele Dye Agar. Her father owned a meatpacking company. She graduated from the Faulkner School for Girls in Chicago, and attended the Oaksmere School in New York. Actor
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Agar and her older sister Louise were both known as athletes in Chicago as teenagers. She qualified for the United States team at 1922 Women's World Games in Paris when she set the new American record for the
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was an Episcopalian church worker who founded a prison hospice program in California. Her husband died in 1967, and she died in 1987, at the age of 84, at a hospital in
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In the late 1920s, Agar married her older sister Ruth's widower, contractor Wilson Askew Jaicks. She became a mother to her three young nephews, including
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Later in life, Jaicks ran the Lake Forest office of Quinlan and Tyson, a Chicago real estate company.
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Birth date from Agar's 1922 United States passport application, via Ancestry.
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American Women's Track and Field: A History, 1895 Through 1980
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A young white woman with short dark curly hair, about to launch a javelin; she is wearing white athletic clothing, including shorts and a middy blouse
John Agar
1922 Women's World Games
John Agar
javelin throw
Mamaroneck
Agar Jaicks
Nancy Jaicks Alexander
Lake Forest, Illinois


"James S. Agar"
"Mrs. Jas. Agar, Wife of Packer, is Dead at 60"


American Women's Track and Field: A History, 1895 Through 1980
ISBN
978-0-7864-0219-9
"Selected for International Track Meet in Paris, August 20th"
"Chicago Section"
"1922 US Women Pioneers of Track and Field: A Tribute to the Women who Crossed the Atlantic"
"Girls of Track and Field"
"Girl Athletes Now on Way to France for Women's International Games"
"On the QT: It's a Venerable Firm"


"Kathryn Jaicks, Athlete, Agar Heir"
"Three Weddings of Interest"
"Wife of Highway Contractor Died"
"Agar Jaicks, fixture of SF Democratic politics, dies at 93"

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