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Priscilla Hiss (October 13, 1903 – October 14, 1984), born Priscilla Fansler and first married as Priscilla Hobson, was a 20th-century American teacher and book editor, best known as the wife of Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist and former State Department official whose innocence she supported with testimony throughout his two, highly ...
Oct 15, 1984 · Priscilla Hiss, the wife of Alger Hiss, who steadfastly defended her husband at his two trials for perjury, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. She was...
Priscilla Hiss, the wife of Alger Hiss, who steadfastly defended her husband at his two trials for perjury, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 81 years old on Saturday. Mrs. Hiss had been ill since suffering a stroke in 1981.
Feb 13, 1978 · On a crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment...
In 1929, Hiss married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, a Bryn Mawr graduate and grade school teacher. Priscilla, previously married to Thayer Hobson, had a three-year-old son, Timothy Hobson (September 19, 1926 – January 8, 2018). Hiss and Priscilla had a son, Tony Hiss.
Cool and demure, Priscilla Hiss corroborated almost everything her husband had said. She denied any part of the Chamberses’ story which might tie her husband into any Communist plot.
He married Priscilla Fansler Hobson, 26, a Quaker a divorcee and the mother of a three-year-old son. In 1933, after practicing law in Boston, he got a job as an...
