Jessamine Chapman (later Williams), from the 1906 yearbook of Teachers College, Columbia University
Born
Jessamine May Chapman
June 11, 1881
Brockport, New York
Died
April 3, 1963
Occupation(s)
Home economist, college professor, nutritionist
Jessamine May Chapman Williams (June 11, 1881 – April 3, 1963) was an American home economist, nutritionist, and college professor. She was head of the home economics department at Sweet Briar College, head of the Food and Nutrition Department at the University of Arizona from 1914 to 1923, and head of the Foods and Nutrition department at Oregon State University from 1924 until she retired in 1944.
Chapman was head of the home economics department at Sweet Briar College from 1906 to 1911, head of the Food and Nutrition department at the University of Arizona from 1914 to 1923,[6] and head of the Foods and Nutrition department at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1924[7] until she retired in 1944.[2] She also taught for briefer stints, often at summer programs, at the University of Washington, Oklahoma State University, and Simmons College.[8][9] In the mid-1920s she gave radio lectures for the Oregon State extension program on KOAC.[10] She conducted nutritional experiments on rats for her research.[11] She was active in the American Association of University Women, and the Corvallis chapter of AAUW named a fellowship in her memory.[12]
Publications
"Remodeling the Conventional Christmas Dinner" (1913)[13]