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Grace Thayer Richards Conant (1898-1985), whose nickname within her family was "Patty," had a life deeply intertwined with people and events at Harvard University in mid-twentieth century, and later with post-war Germany.
Richards. Conant. Birth. 1 Feb 1898. Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Death. 1987 (aged 88–89) Burial. Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Grace Thayer "Patty" Conant formerly Richards. Born 1 Feb 1898 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Theodore William Richards and Miriam (Thayer) Richards. Sister of William T Richards and G Thayer Richards. Wife of James Bryant Conant — married 17 Apr 1920 in Appleton Chapel, Harvard. [children unknown]
- Female
- February 1, 1898
- James Bryant Conant
Conant was appointed an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919. The following year he became engaged to Richards's daughter, Grace (Patty) Thayer Richards. They were married in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard on April 17, 1920, and had two sons, James Richards Conant, born in May 1923, and Theodore Richards Conant, born in July 1928.
Grace "Patty" Thayer (Richards) Conant's social notebooks, 1933-ca.1954 contain correspondence regarding arrangements with caterers, guest lists, and seating arrangements at various social functions held while Conant was President of Harvard University.
- Pusey Library, Cambridge, 02138, MA
- (617) 495-2461
As The New York Times reported the following morning, William Richards was from a prominent Boston family, son of the late professor Theodore William Richards of Harvard, winner of a Nobel Prize in chemistry, and the brother of the former Grace (Patty) Thayer Richards, wife of the president of Harvard, James B. Conant.
