Kathleen K. Gilmore
Kathleen K. Gilmore (November 12, 1914 – March 18, 2010) was an American
Early life
Kathleen Kirk was born on November 12, 1917, in Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma, to Jesse (née Horton) and Rufus Patrick Kirk. She was the middle child of three and had an older sister and younger brother. Raised in Altus until she was twelve, the family moved to Tulsa, where she completed her secondary education.[1] Beginning her studies in geology at the University of Tulsa (TU), after three years, she transferred to the University of Oklahoma (OU), where she obtained a bachelor of science degree.[2][1] Hoping to work in the growing petroleum industry, she was unable to find employment in the male-dominated field during the Great Depression and enrolled in business school to learn secretarial skills.[3]
Career
Kirk had worked throughout her schooling at the Bone and Joint Center in Tulsa and the TU Library, after graduation she looked for a position as a geologist and found few opportunities for women. Taking a job as an editorial assistant at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Tulsa, she worked for a year, before she found a steady job.[1] In the late 1930s, Kirk moved to Houston and took a job working as a stenographer for Humble Oil. Her employers appreciated her knowledge of geological terms, but hired her as administrative staff.[4] Disliking the stenography pool, Kirk left to work as a typist with Superior Oil Company in Corpus Christi and eventually returned to Houston to work with Standard Oil of Kansas, where she remained until 1940, when she married petroleum engineer, Robert Beattie Gilmore, on Christmas Day.[2][5]
Soon after their marriage, the couple moved to Dallas, where Robert took a position with
At the time of her studies, there was an ongoing academic debate in the archaeological field as to whether the discipline encompassed only
Gilmore began searching for the complex of the
Completing her PhD in 1973,
In 1974, Gilmore began teaching at the
In 1990, Gilmore left UNT and began doing consulting work.[2] In 1993, she consulted on a project to locate the site of the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá, which she had reported on in 1967. The mission was located in Menard, Texas. In 1995, when La Salle's ship La Belle was located,[21] close to the location Gilmore had predicted, she worked on the excavation, which also discovered eight Spanish cannon at the site.[17] She was the recipient of the J. C. Harrington Award from Society for Historical Archaeology in 1995, becoming the first women honored with the award.[2] Between 1999 and 2002, she worked in conjunction with the Texas Historical Commission on a re-examination of the Keeran site, which not only reaffirmed the accuracy of her location of Ft. Saint Louis and discovered the Spanish presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto en la Bahía, which had been constructed atop the French fort.[21]
In the mid-2000s, Gilmore returned to a project researching
Death and legacy
Gilmore died on March 18, 2010, at
References
Citations
- ^ a b c Tunnell 2003, p. 4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Simnacher 2010.
- ^ Bruseth, Hindes & Walter 2010, p. 1.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bruseth, Hindes & Walter 2010, p. 2.
- ^ a b Tunnell 2003, p. 6.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, pp. 6–7.
- ^ Jelks 2001.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, p. 8.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, pp. 7–8.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, pp. 10–11.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, p. 10.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, p. 9.
- ^ Bruseth, Hindes & Walter 2010, pp. 2, 5.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, pp. 6–8.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, p. 3.
- ^ Bruseth, Hindes & Walter 2010, p. 6.
- ^ a b Tunnell 2003, p. 12.
- ^ a b The North Texan 2010.
- ^ Bruseth, Hindes & Walter 2010, p. 3.
- ^ Tunnell 2003, p. 11.
- ^ a b c d Bruseth, Hindes & Walter 2010, p. 4.
- ^ a b c Lunday 2010, p. 43.
Bibliography
- Bruseth, Jim; Hindes, Kay; Walter, Tamra L. (2010). "Memorial: Kathleen Kirk Gilmore, 1914–2010" (PDF). Historical Archaeology. 44 (4). Rockville, Maryland: ISSN 0440-9213. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- Jelks, Ed (October 1, 2001). "The Gilbert Site, 1962: Birth of the TAS Field School". Texas Beyond History. Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- Lunday, Elizabeth (Summer 2010). "A Late Starter and a Trailblazer". American Archaeology. 14 (2). Albuquerque, New Mexico: ISSN 1093-8400. Archived from the originalon 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- Simnacher, Joe (March 23, 2010). "Kathleen Kirk Gilmore: authority on Spanish Colonial archaeology". The Dallas Morning News. Dallas, Texas. Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- Tunnell, Curtis D. (2003). "A Conversation with Kathleen Kirk Gilmore". Historical Archaeology. 37 (2). Rockville, Maryland: S2CID 160806468.
- "Kathleen Kirk Gilmore". Denton, Texas: The North Texan. June 8, 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2018.