1885-1975. Katherine Buxbaum was born June 27, 1885, in Gracehill, Washington County, Iowa. She was educated at the Washington Academy and took a B.A. at the State University of Iowa (later the University of Iowa) in 1908. In 1924 she received an MA at the University of Chicago. She pursued further graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, but she did not take a degree. She spent thirty-nine years as a teacher, first in high schools in Lamoni, Colfax, Washington, Fort Dodge, and Waterloo in Iowa, and Mitchell in South Dakota. She served on the faculty of Rochester Junior College in Rochester, Minnesota. From 1924-1948 she served as Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Iowa State Teachers College (later University of Northern Iowa). She also worked part-time at the Cedar Falls Public Library. She died at Grinnell on June 25, 1975.