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Document Details : Title: An American Architect in Iran and Afghanistan Author(s): HAUBEN, H. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 28 Date: 1997 Pages: 223-248 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.28.0.583557 Abstract : Some years ago, by a happy coincidence, I was entrusted with a small parcel of documents. They had belonged, I was told, to a nice old lady from the Orange area in the state of New Jersey, who had faithfully kept them until her death in the early nineties, leaving neither children nor relatives. The few persons who had still known Agnes C. McCool (née Macalpine) (1895 - ca. 1993) spoke with great admiration of her amiability and the qualities of her spirit, the more so as her last years had been marked by increasing loneliness. Having been widowed more than four decades before, she had always cherished her husband's memory. As it appeared, John B. McCool had been a skilled architect who, at a certain point in his career, had been involved in some kind of archaeological activity in Persia. Their only son, also called John, survived his father, but died childless at a relatively young age. Her unmarried brother William, who had taken residence with her after her husband's decease, had also died a long time ago. |
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