Santa Clara County
Biographies
MRS. SELMA B. JOHNSON OLINDER
MRS. SELMA B. JOHNSON OLINDER.
Prominent among the successful educators of Santa Clara
county is Mrs. Olinder, who has taught
for twenty-two years, and who for the past eleven years has acceptably and
satisfactorily served as principal of the East San Jose schools. Systematic and
thorough as a teacher, and just and impartial in her decisions, she has won the
respect and regard of her pupils and is held in high esteem by the pedagogical
profession and public in general.
While being a useful member of the San Jose Woman’s Club and
interested in other organizations, yet Mrs. Olinder
spends much of her time in developing the social life of the young people with
whom she comes in contact. Of this work she never tires.
Mrs. Olinder, formerly
Selma B. Johnson, of Norse lineage, was born near Red Bluff, Cal., and is the
eldest daughter of the late Andrew Johnson, of Tehama county,
who was a prominent rancher and land owner. After completing her education for
the time being, in the Red Bluff Academy, a private school conducted by the late
lamented E. S. Gans, and teaching two years
in a Tehama county school, she was married in June, 1884, to
Albert Manfred Olinder, a well-known
engineer of Santa Clara county. They have two sons, Gans,
a student in the San Jose High School, and Sidney, yet in the grammar school.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 17 April 2016.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page
1080. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2016 Marie Hassard.