Annie Louise Macleod (February 7, 1883 – September 29, 1971) was a Canadian home economist, college dean, and chemist. She was the first student to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry at McGill University, and the first woman to complete a Ph.D. at McGill. She was dean of the School of Home Economics at Syracuse University from 1928 to 1948.
Early life and education Macleod was from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; she was raised in the household of her stepfather and mother, James Forbes and Margaret A. Forbes.McGill University's 1904 yearbook, page 62. 1901 Census of Canada, via Ancestry. She earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at McGill University. In 1910 she completed doctoral studies in chemistry at McGill, and was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from McGill, and the first student to complete a Ph.D. in chemistry there.
Career Macleod worked at Barnard College and Bryn Mawr College in her early career. At Vassar College from 1914 to 1928, she was a chemistry professor, chaired the school's Division of Euthenics, and directed its Summer Institute. In 1928 she succeeded Florence E. S. Knapp as dean of the College of Home Economics at Syracuse University. She retired from Syracuse in 1948, after she fractured her hip in a fall. Syracuse commissioned a portrait painting of Macleod in 1957.
Macleod was a consulting editor for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. She also lectured to community and conference audiences about home economics and women's education. She organized a series of radio lectures on WGR in 1930. She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1934.
Publications Text Book of Chemistry for Nurses and Students of Home Economics (1920, 1928) "The Dinitro Derivatives of Para-Dichlorobenzene" (1922, with Marion C. Pfund and Mary L. Kilpatrick) "Euthenics at Vassar" (1926, with Mary A. Griggs)MacLeod, Annie Louise, and Mary A. Griggs. "Euthenics at Vassar." Journal of Home Economics 18 (1926): 119-122. "Euthenics" (1927) Chemistry and Cookery (1930, with Edith H. Nason) "Home Economics: A Liberal Education" (1945, with Mary A. Griggs)MacLeod, Annie Louise, and Mary A. Griggs. "Home Economics: A Liberal Education" Journal of Home Economics 37 (1945).
Personal life Macleod lived with her Syracuse colleague Edith H. Nason.1930 and 1940 United States censuses, via Ancestry. Nason is described as Macleod's "lodger" in the 1930 census, and as her "partner" in the 1940 census. Macleod and Nason planned a move to Michigan together in 1949, and retired to Florida in 1952.Macleod and Nason lived at the same address in the Sarasota, Florida, City Directory, 1958; via Ancestry. Nason died in 1970, and Macleod died in 1971, in Sarasota, Florida, at the age of 88. References