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Unknown Woman With Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff

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Title

Unknown Woman With Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff

Subject

Benchoff, Anna Katharine Hottel (1895-1986)

Description

Two women wearing winter coats and large hats are posed together.

The younger woman on the right has been identified as Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff. The other woman is unidentiifed.

Anna Katharine was the daughter of Milton Hockman and Laura Hottel of Woodstock.

She married Guy Anderson Benchoff in 1924, and the couple worked and taught at Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) for many years together.

They also raised four children together in Woodstock: John "Jack" Milton Benchoff, Ann McCord (Benchoff) Stamm, Betty (Benchoff) Page, and Barbara Loudoun (Benchoff) Miles.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Labelled "June 1913" on box of plates.

Contributor

Identified in 2025 by Katharine Shilling (Stamm) Schindler, a granddaughter of Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 006251, 006307, 009888, 010953, 012698, 012962, 023558, 025658, 029287, 029380, and 029390.

Identifier

010953

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Unknown Woman With Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 6, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/36934.

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