Jessie D. Hinton

Title: Jessie D. Hinton
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service
Description: Jessie D. Hinton was a home demonstration agent for Oregon State College from 1942 to 1943. Hinton was born in 1907, in Gaston, Indiana. She received her Bachelor of Science in Home Economics from Purdue University in 1929, and her Master of Science from Iowa State College. Her master’s thesis was titled, “The Problem of Savings and Investments in Relation to the Farmers’ Scale of Living”. Before coming to OSC, Hinton worked as a demonstration agent in Minnesota and Maryland. She was appointed to serve as a home demonstration agent in Multnomah County in 1942, at an annual salary of $2,400. She resigned in 1943 to be married and devote her time to home making.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1942/1943
Identifier: P092:0009
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University