Ione Grogan

Ione Holt Grogan (March 4, 1891 – February 5, 1961) was an American academic, mathematician, and educator.

[2] Her mother was raised by an aunt and uncle, Margaret Hurt Robertson and Walter Scott Irving, Webster's great-grandparents, on their tobacco farm near Stoneville after the death of Grogan's grandmother, Nancy Montgomery.

[1] She worked as a teacher for twenty-two years before joining the faculty at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in 1935.

[3] She was a mathematics professor at the college and served as residence hall counsel for the Coit and Weil dormitories until 1958.

[3] While living in Greensboro, Grogan was an active member of the North Carolina Democratic Party and the Greensboro League of Women Voters, and served as president of the Reviewers Club, the oldest literary club for women in North Carolina.