Alice Frances Blood

Alice Frances Blood
Blood, from the 1913 yearbook of Simmons College
Born(1880-11-25)November 25, 1880
Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMarch 20, 1968(1968-03-20) (aged 87)
Concord, New Hampshire, U.S.
OccupationsBiochemist, college professor, home economist

Alice Frances Blood (November 25, 1880 – March 20, 1968) was an American biochemist and college professor. She was head of the home economics department at Simmons College in Boston from 1915 to 1941, and was president of the American Home Economics Association from 1922 to 1924.

Early life and education

Blood was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Josiah Beaman Blood and Zeruah O. Watkins Blood. Her father and brothers owned a large grocery business, and her older half-sister Minnie E. Blood was a poet and relief worker based in Germany.

Blood graduated from Lynn English High School in 1899, studied under Ellen Swallow Richards and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1903, and earned a PhD in biochemistry from Yale University in 1910.

Career

Blood taught chemistry and nutrition at Simmons College beginning in 1904, and in 1915 was named head of the home economics department. She retired from Simmons in 1941. She was president of the American Home Economics Association from 1922 to 1924. She spoke at professional meetings and made public comments on a wide range of topics, including spanking, flappers, and dishwashing. She co-authored a home economics textbook published by Houghton Mifflin.

Publications

Personal life

Blood moved to New Hampshire in retirement, and died at a hospital in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1968, at the age of 87.

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary for Josiah B. Blood". The Daily Item. 1901-03-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ Blood, Minnie E. (1916). When Good Men Meet as Foe to Foe. Southgate Press.
  3. ↑ "35th Anniversary English High Alumni Association". The Daily Item. 1924-04-21. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Tablet Unveiled to Mrs. Richards". The Boston Globe. 1928-12-04. p. 16. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "M.I.T. Gives Degrees". Boston Evening Transcript. 1903-06-09. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ University, Yale (1910). Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, 1701-1910. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 358.
  7. ↑ "Feed Family of 6 for $10 a Week; Simmons College Girks Test Menus on their Families". The Boston Globe. 1916-12-17. p. 35. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Dr. Blood Plans to Retire". The Daily Item. 1941-04-02. p. 16. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Home Bureau Experts Here This Week". The Buffalo Times. 1924-06-29. p. 58. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Home-Keeping Experts Arrive for Meeting". New Orleans States-Item. 1923-12-28. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "For Child Labor Control; Home Economics Association Endorses Amendment at Buffalo". The New York Times. 1924-07-04. p. 13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-06-22.
  12. ↑ "Western New York Home Economics Association". The Buffalo News. 1924-02-06. p. 12. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "American Home, Youth Meeting Planned". The Standard-Times. 1936-03-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "When They Reach Flapper Age, Let Them Flap; Such is the Admonition of Dr. Alice F. Blood". The Vincennes Sun-Commercial. 1924-01-14. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. 1 2 Harris, Jessie W. (Jessie Wootten); Speer, Elisabeth (Lacey); Blood, Alice Frances (1927). Everyday Foods. University of Alberta Libraries. Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin company.
  16. ↑ Mendel, Lafayette B.; Blood, Alice F. (September 1910). "Some Peculiarities of the Proteolytic Activity of Papaïn". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 8 (3): 177–213. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)91522-X. ISSN 0021-9258.
  17. ↑ Blood, Alice F. (September 1910). "The Erepsin of the Cabbage (Brassica oleracea)". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 8 (3): 215–225. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)91523-1. ISSN 0021-9258.
  18. ↑ "Dr. Alice Blood, Was Educator at Simmons; 87". The Boston Globe. 1968-03-21. p. 48. Retrieved 2026-06-21 – via Newspapers.com.