Annette Philbrick Locke
Fellow, Home Economics
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Annette Philbrick Locke
Fellow, Home Economics
Fellow, Home Economics
Description
Annette E. Philbrick was born in Iowa City in 1875 to Philetus Harvey Philbrick and Malah P. (Brackett) Philbrick. She attended the Iowa City public schools until the family moved to Nebraska, and she finished her early education in the city of Ainsworth. She went on to study at the University of Nebraska, earning her B.S. in 1897 and graduating as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Philbrick then pursued graduate work at her alma mater until 1898, when she moved to New York City to study at the Columbia Teachers College, earning a diploma in Home Economics the following year.
In 1899, Philbrick returned to the University of Nebraska, this time as an instructor in Home Economics. Around this time, she also submitted a paper on school responses to cultural differences among students to the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics. Philbrick took a leave from the University in 1901, accepting a fellowship in Home Economics at the Boston School of Housekeeping, which later became part of Simmons. During the year she spent in Boston, she worked under Henrietta Goodrich, Director of the School of Housekeeping, to oversee a series of nutritional studies for the United States Department of Agriculture. Philbrick remained at the University of Nebraska until at least 1914, earning a promotion to Associate Professor in 1908.
Philbrick married newspaper editor Walter Leonard Locke in 1910, and the couple had one son, Francis Philbrick, in 1912. Though little information remains about her later life, Locke identified as a progressive Democrat and was an active suffragist, holding membership in the College Equal Suffrage League (CESL) and likely in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In 1920, shortly after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, she added her name to a public list of Nebraska women, many of whom were also suffragists, opposing a state referendum for direct primaries. Philbrick was also active in the Home Economics Association and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and a charter member of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she resided.
Philbrick’s date of death is unknown.
In 1899, Philbrick returned to the University of Nebraska, this time as an instructor in Home Economics. Around this time, she also submitted a paper on school responses to cultural differences among students to the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics. Philbrick took a leave from the University in 1901, accepting a fellowship in Home Economics at the Boston School of Housekeeping, which later became part of Simmons. During the year she spent in Boston, she worked under Henrietta Goodrich, Director of the School of Housekeeping, to oversee a series of nutritional studies for the United States Department of Agriculture. Philbrick remained at the University of Nebraska until at least 1914, earning a promotion to Associate Professor in 1908.
Philbrick married newspaper editor Walter Leonard Locke in 1910, and the couple had one son, Francis Philbrick, in 1912. Though little information remains about her later life, Locke identified as a progressive Democrat and was an active suffragist, holding membership in the College Equal Suffrage League (CESL) and likely in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In 1920, shortly after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, she added her name to a public list of Nebraska women, many of whom were also suffragists, opposing a state referendum for direct primaries. Philbrick was also active in the Home Economics Association and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and a charter member of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she resided.
Philbrick’s date of death is unknown.
Citation
“Annette Philbrick Locke
Fellow, Home Economics,” Suffrage at Simmons, accessed April 20, 2024, https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/items/show/89.
Fellow, Home Economics,” Suffrage at Simmons, accessed April 20, 2024, https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/items/show/89.