Editing Allen Walker Read (section)

== Early life and education ==
Read was born in [[Winnebago, Minnesota]] to Orlan and Bessie Allen Reed on 2 June, 1906.<ref name=":1" /> He had one sibling, a sister, Mary Jo; she became a professor of geography at [[Eastern Illinois University]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last1=Beth |first1=Mary |last2=Jolley |first2=Laura R. |date=February 2019 |title=Allen Walker Read Papers |url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/c4033 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104213559/https://files.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C4033.pdf |archive-date=2021-11-04 |access-date=26 November 2020 |website=The State Historical Society of Missouri}}</ref> He earned a bachelor's degree from the [[University of Northern Iowa]] (called Iowa State Teachers College at the time) in 1925 and a master's degree from the [[University of Iowa]] in 1926.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Ashley |first=Leonard R. N. |date=2003-03-01 |title=In Memoriam: Allen Walker Read (1906–2002) |url=https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1681 |journal=Names |language=en |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=55–58 |doi=10.1179/nam.2003.51.1.55 |issn=1756-2279|doi-access=free }}</ref> His thesis focused on Iowa place names.<ref name=":3" /> Read studied at [[St Edmund Hall, Oxford]] as a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]] from 1928 to 1931.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />