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Katharine Cook Briggs
American writer (1875–1968)
This article is about the American educator.
Katharine cook briggs biography
For the English novelist, see Katharine Mary Briggs.
Katharine Cook Briggs (January 3, 1875 – July 10, 1968) was an American writer who was the co-creator, with her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, of an inventory of a widely popular personality type system known as the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).[2]
Early life
Family life
Katharine Cook Briggs was born on January 3, 1875, in Ingham County, Michigan.[3] Her father Albert John Cook was on the faculty of Michigan State University, previously known as Michigan Agricultural College.
Her mother, née Mary Harris Baldwin, attended Oberlin College. After Katharine graduated from college she married Lyman James Briggs, a physicist and Director of the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.[2][4] On October 18, 1897, Katharine gave birth to Isabel Briggs Myers, the couple's only child who wo