Editor; archivist. Born July 26, 1901, Waco, Texas. Parents– Charles Arthur and Clementine Fason Chappell. Married–Frank Lawrence Owsley, July 24, 1920. Children–two. Education– Birmingham-Southern College, 1919-20; Vanderbilt University, 1921-23; George Peabody College for Teachers, B.S., 1925. Worked with her husband, Dr. Frank Lawrence Owsley, editing his historical work. Director of Manuscript Section, Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1958-70. Member Society of American Archivists, Southern Historical Association. Died July 2, 1999.
Source;
Contemporary Authors online.
Publications;
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Historian of the Old South: A Memoir. University of Virginia Press, 1990.
Editor;
King Cotton Diplomacy. 2nd edition. University of Chicago Press, 1959.
The South, Old and New Frontiers: Essays of Frank Lawrence Owsley. University of Georgia Press, 1967.
Joint_editor:
The Papers of Andrew Jackson. University of Tennessee Press, 1978.
Papers;
A collection of the papers of Harriet Chappell Owsley is helf by the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.