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Leta Hollingworth was a Eugenicist, Too. Her mother died shortly after giving birth to her third daughter. Leta and her sisters were raised by their grandparents until the age of twelve, and then lived with their wandering father who had since remarried. Educated in a one-room school, she received what she later spoke of as an excellent individualized education.

At the age of 15 she began studying literature and writing at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. As a matter of practicality, she obtained a teaching certificate in addition to her degree in literature. She married Harry Levi Hollingworth whom she had been dating since her sophomore year in college. Since married women were prevented from teaching, she settled down as a homemaker for three years but became bored and frustrated.

With the encouragement of her husband, and with some extra money the couple earned by running a study for the Coca-Cola company on the psychological effects of caffeine, Leta enrolled at Columbia University in , taking courses in education and sociology. She received a Master's degree in education in and, in , got a job administering Binet intelligence tests at the Clearing House for Mental Defectives.

As the top scorer, she became New York City's first civil service psychologist and filled a post at Bellevue Hospital as chief of the psychological lab.