Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold

1915 - 1992  (76 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold
  Birth	2 Dec 1915	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	18 Sep 1992	Los Altos, Santa Clara, California   [2]
  Person ID	I13389	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	George Stanleigh Arnold,   b. 3 Apr 1881, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 18 Jan 1942, Marin, California (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent,   b. 8 Jan 1894, Chicago, Cook, Illinois d. 12 Jan 1952, Marin, California (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	26 Feb 1915	Washington, D.C.   [1]
  Family ID	F8400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Francis Whitmore,   b. 6 Jan 1916, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 6 Jan 1996 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1 Nov 1946  [3]
  Children	1. Thomas Sherman Whitmore,   b. 10 Feb 1953, Washington, D.C. (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F8401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2018

  
  

• Notes

  http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/mcobits/archive4/5426.html: Elizabeth 'Bibbs' [sic] Arnold of Los Altos, a mathematician, environmentalist and wildlife advocate who helped crack the Japanese code during World War II, died Friday, Sept. 18, 1992, at her Los Altos Hills home of lung cancer. She was 76. A native of San Francisco, Dr. Arnold was reared in Marin County and was the oldest grandchild of Rep. William Kent, for whom the city of Kentfield was named. The daughter of a prominent San Francisco attorney, Eugene Arnold, she attended the Katherine Branson School in Ross and graduated first in her class in 1932. The school later named a day in her honor after she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Vassar College in her junior year. After graduating from Vassar in 1937, Dr. Arnold earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1941. During World War II, Dr. Arnold was recruited by the Navy and worked on a team of cryptographers cracking Japanese codes, for which she received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award. In the 1960s, Dr. Arnold worked on machine language translation at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Inc. After her retirement in 1969, Dr. Arnold helped establish a recycling center in Los Altos and worked with Wildlife Rescue, helping injured animals. Dr. Arnold is survived by her husband of 46 years, Dr. William Francis Whitmore of Los Altos; four sons, Charles Whitmore of Washington, D.C., Edward Whitmore of San Francisco, Thomas Whitmore of Oakland and Peter Whitmore of Victoria, B.C. Also surviving are her brothers, George Stanleigh Arnold of Kentfield, Peter Arnold of Grass Valley and Anthony Arnold of Novato. ----- Note that the above obituary is in error in two respects. Her father was George Stanleigh Arnold, not Eugene Arnold; and her family nickname was "Bibba", not "Bibbs." Her page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, showing her to be a generation of advisors closer to Felix Klein than her husband was. ----- Elizabeth Sherman Arnold and William Francis Whitmore were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

  
  

• Sources

  [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920. [S1859] "Elizabeth Arnold: Helped crack enemy code." Marin Independent Journal, 20 Sep 1992. [S1926] Who's Who in Commerce and Industry, Fourteenth Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1965.