Ruth Benedict (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The death of her father when she was twenty-one months old affected forever how Ruth Fulton Benedict would view society. Frederick Fulton had finished medical school two years before her birth. Her mother, Beatrice Shattuck Fulton, graduated from Vassar College five years earlier. Because Frederick Fulton suffered from fevers and a wasting disease, the family moved to Norwich in central New York State when Ruth was a baby. Beatrice bore another child, Margery, on December 26, 1888, three months before her husband’s death. Benedict retained throughout her life the memory of her...
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