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Margaret Mead and Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, circa 1918.
Credit: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
On New Year's Eve in 1917, Margaret Mead became secretly engaged to Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, the younger brother of one of her teachers at Doylestown High School. They married on September 3, 1923, while Luther was an Episcopalian priest doing graduate work in sociology. Cressman and Mead divorced in 1928.