META GIVEN was born in the Ozarks of Missouri to James Henry and Eliza Ann (Lacy) Given. She was their first daughter.
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META GIVEN stayed in Missouri going to school and teaching throughout the early 1900s from 1902-1922. She went to Normal School #2 in Warrensburg, MO around 1910-1912.
Then, from 1914-1927 she attended the University of Chicago a coeducational university.
From 1925-1930 she worked at the Evaporated Milk Association as the first Director of Home Economics. From 1930-1931 she was the food editor for the Chicago Tribune working on the columns called "Tribune Cook Book" and "Food Talk" with her own byline.
There are only two papers that hold her obituaries one placed at the time of her death in the "Lakeland Ledger" in 1981 when she died and one placed in the Chicago Tribune placed their by Danette Bishop Mondou the author of Meta Given's Biography called My Time with Meta Given."
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