On June 12 of that year, she married Raymond W. She transferred to the University of California in Berkeley for her senior year in 1917 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1918. She wrote for The Argonaut student newspaper and Gem of the Mountains yearbook and was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Raised in Wisconsin, her grandmother's life and storytelling abilities inspired Carol's writing at an early age.īrink started writing for her school newspapers and continued that in college she graduated from the Portland Academy in Oregon and attended the University of Idaho in Moscow for three years (1914–17). The Watkins family had moved to Idaho in 1887, three years before statehood, when Henrietta was twelve. Orphaned at age 8, Carol was raised in Moscow by her widowed maternal grandmother, Caroline Woodhouse Watkins (1853–1940), the model for Caddie Woodlawn. Alex Ryrie, 35, died from tuberculosis in 1900 and Henrietta remarried, but following her father's murder in 1901, her second marriage failed and she committed suicide in 1904 at age 29. Watkins, the first president of the state's medical association and a member of the board of regents of the new University of Idaho. Her father was an immigrant from Scotland and was the city's mayor (1895–97) and her mother was the daughter of a prominent physician, Dr. Born in Moscow, Idaho, Caroline Sybil Ryrie was the only child of Alexander and Henrietta (Watkins) Ryrie.
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