She also edited a collection of papers by George Sarton, considered to be the founder of the discipline of the history of science.

[2] She was the granddaughter of a former president of Dartmouth College, and a cousin of former United States Secretary of War Henry L.

She later studied at Columbia University, from which she earned a master's degree in 1913 and doctorate in 1917.

[1][4] Her dissertation was titled The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe.

It was at the suggestion of James Harvey Robinson that Stimson pursued this subject.