THE STORY OF AN INSPIRING PAST

 

Historical Sketch of the San Jose State Teachers College

From 1862 to 1928

With an

Alphabetical List of Matriculates and Record of Graduates by Classes

Compiled by

Mrs. ESTELLE GREATHEAD

 

 

San Jose, California

San Jose State Teachers College

1928.

 

 

 

 

Pages 290-299

 

 

RECORD of GRADUATES BY CLASSES

 

1863-1877

 

 

FIRST CLASS – MAY, 1863

 

Bertha Comstock (Mrs. J. C. Bates), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught some time in San Mateo County and in San Francisco.

P. Augusta Fink (Mrs. T. C. White), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in the San Francisco Public Schools. Was for two years Principal of the Spring Valley Grammar School.

Nellie Hart (Mrs. B. H. Ramsdell), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County and in San Francisco.

Louisa A. Mails (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

 

SECOND CLASS – MAY, 1864

 

Martin V. Ashbrook, Solano County, Calif.  Taught in Contra Costa and Del Norte Counties. Left teaching to study law. Became an attorney at law, Fresno City.

Ellen S. Baldwin, Contra Costa County, Calif.  Taught in the San Francisco schools.

Victoria Beverly (Mrs. Newbury), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Susie D. L. Carey (Mrs. S. C. Baker), Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara, San Jose, Los Angeles, Napa, Vallejo, San Francisco, Placer and Monterey Counties, and Pacific Grove. Has published a book of poems and prose called “Gleanings.” Held Business College and Kindergarten diplomas. Deceased.

Clara A. Cummings, San Francisco, Calif.

Julia Clayton (Mrs. Sarles), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Jane O. Day (Mrs. Palmer), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Ellen G. Grant, Nevada County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary Goldsmith (Mrs. Prag), San Francisco, Calif.  Has taught in San Francisco in the Girl's High School.

Annie S. Jewett, Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Bartlett Primary School.

Lizzie B. Jewett (Mrs. G.W. Towle, Jr.), Santa Clara County, Calif.

M. Augusta Krauth (Mrs. Morgan), El Dorado County, Calif.  Taught in Monterey, San Francisco and Santa Cruz County.

Ariadne L. Kimball (Mrs. H. R. Kimball), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught a short time as substitute in the San Francisco schools, and seven years in the Protestant Orphan Asylum, San Francisco.

Mary J. Norton (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Jane Smith, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Minnie Scott, Alameda County, Calif.

Eva Solomon, San Francisco, Calif.

Margaret Wade (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary E. Williams, Marin County, Calif.

 

THIRD CLASS – DECEMBER, 1864

 

Lucinda N. Allyne, San Francisco, Calif.

Elijah Broadbent, Sierra County, Calif.  Taught several years in St. Augustine College, Benicia, in California, and Nevada.

William R. Bradshaw (deceased), Sutter County, Calif.

Sadie Davis (Mrs. Cornwall), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco and in Redwood City.

Carrie P. Field (Mrs. Plumkett), Santa Cruz County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Minnie Girvin (Mrs. W. H. H. Hamilton), San Francisco, Calif.  In October, 1892, she visited the school while attending a W.C.T.U. Convention. In June, 1912, she again visited the school, and gave her address, 1634 6th Ave., Oakland.

Anna Kennedy, San Francisco, Calif.

Henry E. McBride, Tulare County, Calif.  Practiced law.

Philena Sawyer, San Francisco, Calif.

 

FOURTH CLASS – JUNE, 1865

 

Cornelia E. Campbell, Sonoma County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Augusta S. Cameron (Mrs. Bainbridge), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco, in Mendocino County. Was first native California graduate. Has done much work outside of the public schools as teacher in book-keeping, music, calisthenics, etc.

Anna Gibbons (Mrs. Wm. T. Garratt), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Maggie L. Jordan (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Annie M. Jourden (Mrs. Duffy), San Francisco, Calif.

Nellie A. Littlefield, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Florence Morgan, San Francisco, Calif.  Married and went East soon after graduation.

Caroline A. Menges, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Sophronia Mills (Mrs. E. H. Kincaid), San Joaquin County, Calif.  Address 119 Pearl St., Los Angeles. Taught in San Joaquin County.

Fanny A. E. Nichols, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

George S. Pershin, Humboldt County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco. Was afterwards engaged in surveying.

Mary Perkins, Placer County, Calif.  Taught in Spring Valley School, San Francisco.

Fannie Soule, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary F. Youngberg (Mrs. Elliot Reed), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught Willow Glen District, Santa Clara County, and in San Jose. Was active in Club Work. (Deceased in 1925).

 

FIFTH CLASS – DECEMBER, 1865

 

Nettie Doud (Mrs. F. B. Wood), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in the San Francisco Schools. Was Principal of the Hermann Street Primary School.

Mary A. H. Estabrook (Mrs. Millington), San Francisco, Calif.

Sarah E. Frissell (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Jane E. Greer, San Mateo, Calif.  Taught in the Fairmount School, in San Francisco.

Mary E. Hall, San Francisco, Calif.

Joseph F. Kennedy, Contra Costa County, Calif.  Attorney at law.

J. Alexander Louitt, Calaveras County, Calif.  Taught in Calaveras County, Alameda County, and San Joaquin County. Left teaching for the profession of law. Was City Attorney of Stockton eight terms; member of the Forty-ninth Congress, U.S.A.

Louis J. Megerle (deceased), San Joaquin County, Calif.

Maria E. O'Connor, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary J. Pascoe (Mrs. Parolini), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Garfield Primary School.

Sabrina A. Williams, Yuba County, Calif.

 

 

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SIXTH CLASS – JUNE, 1866

 

Abbie Carswell, San Francisco, Calif.

Amey T. Campbell, Contra Costa County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco. Was Vice-Principal of the Broadway Grammar School.

Almira T. Flindt, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in Denmsn Gramman School.

Gazena A. Garrison, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Lillie E. Gummer (Mrs. Judge John Hunt), San Francisco, Calif.

Ervin D. Humphrey (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Was elected to a position in the San Francisco Schools immediately after graduation, and was Principal of the Fairmount, Mission Grammar, and Hayes Valley Grammar Schools successively. In January, 1877, he resigned on account of failing health.

Annie M. Holmes (Mrs. Marcus D. Boruck). San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary J. Morgan (Mrs. J. Irving Ayers), Sacramento County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco and Oakland.

Lizzie A. Morgan (Mrs. Wentworth T. Crowell) (deceased), Sacramento County, Calif.

Sarah E. Miller, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in Haight Primary School.

Mary F. Metcalf (Mrs. Hugh Davidson), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary S. Moulthroup, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Pedro, Los Angeles County.

Abner F. Olinger, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in California, fourteen years, in Tennessee, three years; in Florida, five years.

Frances B. Piper (Mrs. Wm. Hall), San Francisco, Calif.  230 Otler St., Stockton.

Arthur Rodgers, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Monterey County, San Benito County. Graduated from University of California in 1872. Practiced law in San Francisco. Was a Regent of the University of California.

Frances Simon (Mrs. Chas. Leavy), San Francisco, Calif.

Maria L. Soule, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Charlotte F. Stephenson (Mrs. Noah F. Flood) (deceased), Sacramento County, Calif.

Nelson S. Trowbridge, Amador County, Calif.  Taught until January, 1869. Left teaching for mining and mercantile pursuits.

Elizabeth White (Mrs. Scott), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Silas A. White, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco. Was Principal of the Spring Valley Grammar School.

Elizabeth York (Mrs. M. A. DeJough) (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

 

SEVENTH CLASS – JUNE, 1867

 

Sarah E. Anderson (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Julia V. Ashley (Mrs. Alfred Thurber), Contra Costa County, Calif.  Taught in Contra Costa County and Salinas.

E. Margaret Bevans (Mrs. C. Convis), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Emma A. Bigsby (deceased), Sonoma County, Calif.

Adrianna L. Beers (Mrs. Maynard), San Francisco, Calif.

Carrie M. Chase (Mrs. Wm. S. Murphy) (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Chas. W. Childs (deceased), El Dorado County, Calif.  Taught in El Dorado and Solano Counties. Was County Superintendent of Solano County two terms. Taught in the State Normal School, San Jose, and was later made Principal. Engaged in educational work in Oakland.

E. Mattie Chapman, Sonoma County, Calif.

Kate J. Clayton (Mrs. N. S. Trowbridge), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County, Amador County, and the State of Nevada.

Mary P. Clark (deceased), Amador County, aClif. (sic)  Taught in Amador County.

Hattie J. Estabrook (Mrs. W. W. Thompson), San Francisco, Calif.

Henrietta Featherly, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Powell Street Primary School.

Anna D. Gaddis (Mrs. Maxwell), Yolo County, Calif.  Taught in Yolo County.

Clara Germain (Mrs. G. S. Potwin), Contra Costa County, Calif.  Taught in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. Married and settled on farm.

Anna L. Gray (Mrs. R. R. Owen), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary T. Hart (Mrs. Joseph Austin) (deceased), El Dorado County, Calif.  Did not teach. Was for many years musical critic of the Argonaut under the nom de plume “Betsy B.”

Mary G. Keydenfelt (Mrs. Wm. J. Dutton), San Francisco, Calif.

Ella M. Harvey (Mrs. W. B. Priddy), Alameda County, Calif.  Taught in Oakland.

James G. Kennedy (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in San Jose. Was City Superintendent of San Jose three terms. Taught in San Francisco and was School Inspector for two years. Was Principal of the Cogswell Polytechnic Institute.

Cloella M. Lewis (Mrs. Lewis A. Sage), San Francisco, Calif.

Hattie B. Loche, San Francisco, Calif.

Lizzie A. Newell, Sonoma County, Calif.

Nellie M. Owens, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Girls' High School.

Catherine O'Brien, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in the John Swett Grammar School in San Francisco.

Howell Powell, Sutter County, Calif.  Attorney at law.

Ella A. Roberts (deceased), El Dorado County, Calif.

Flora C. Smith (Mrs. Armstrong), Santa Clara, Calif.

Grace Smith (Mrs. Preston), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

John C. Shipley, Sonoma County, Calif.  Taught in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Was Principal of Healdsburg Public Schools.

Mrs. Ada E. Wright, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County and in San Francisco.

Harriet L. Wooll, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Spring Valley School.

 

 

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EIGHTH CLASS – NOVEMBER, 1867

 

Roxa S. Cocks, San Francisco, Calif.

Roscos P. Eames, Santa Cruz County, Calif.   Taught in Contra Costa County. Engaged in bookkeeping and railroading in Los Angeles County; bookkeeping in Oakland; stenographer in San Francisco. Was Principal of the Shorthand Department of Barnard's Business College, and was a short-hand reporter. Is the author of a “Text-Book of Light-Line Short-Hand.”

Maggie Howard, San Francisco, Calif.

Byron E. Hunt, Solano County, Calif.  Taught in San Mateo County, Alameda County, Sierra, Placer and Napa Counties, Marysville High School. Left teaching in 1881 to practice law. Was a lawyer in Napa City several years. Also filled the office of Justice of the Peace and Police Judge. Was General Agent for Southern California of the Pacific Endowment League.

Martha A. Lawless, San Francisco, Calif.

C.D. McCaughton (deceased), El Dorado County, Calif.

Mary E. Perkins, (Mrs. W. A. Mathews), Colusa County, Calif. 

Mary E. Savage (Mrs. McKown), San Francisco, Calif. Taught in San Francisco in the Lincoln Grammar School.

Marion M. Sears, San Francisco, Calif.

Henrietta S. Slater (Mrs. John A. McIntire), Sacramento County, Calif.  Taught in Public Schools of Sacramento and in the San Jose Institute.

 

NINTH CLASS – MAY, 1868

 

Truman P. Ashbrook (deceased), Napa County, Calif.  Taught in Placer, Trinity and Butte Counties. Drowned in 1878.

Ella E. Bachelder (Mrs. O. C. Stonder), San Francisco, Calif.

Lizzie C. Betancue, Alameda County, Calif.  Taught in Oakland

Lucy Bonnell (Mrs. Corcoran), San Francisco, Calif.

Julia B. Brown (Mrs. Arthur J. Foster), El Dorado County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Annie Cathcart (Mrs. Theller), San Francisco, Calif.

Lizzie Cope, San Francisco, Calif.

Lillian A. Crittenden, San Francisco, Calif.

Frances A. Day, Calaveras County, Calif.

Sarah Field (Mrs. Daniel Swett), Santa Cruz County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Anna Hall (Mrs. O. I. Bradley), San Francisco, Calif.

Sallie I. Hall (Mrs. De Witt Vestal), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Josiah S. Hammond, San Joaquin County, Calif.  Taught in San Joaquin County, Yolo County, and the State of Nevada. County Superintendent of Lander County, Nevada, one term. Left teaching to practice medicine.

Julia Meney (Mrs. John Haynes), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Fannie R. Jacks, Napa County, Calif.

Amelia Joice (Mrs. John E. Cosg—ff ) (sic) (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Edward W. Jones, Colusa County, Calif.

Anna La Grange (Mrs. C. S. Coleman), Alameda County, Calif.

Beatrice M. Lawrey (Mrs. B. L. Hollenbeck) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in the San Jose Public Schools; in the Preparatory Class, State Normal School at San Jose. Lived in Pacific Grove many years and was very successful in real estate operations.

Susie S. Lawton, San Francisco, Calif.

Annie H. Lewis (Mrs. Troy Shelley), San Francisco, Calif.  Missionary in Japan.

Mary Little (Mrs. W. E. Price), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

William N. Magoon, Sonoma County, Calif.  Taught in Sonoma, Colusa, Mendocino, Yuba, Contra Costa, and Monterey Counties.

Amelia L. Maison (Mrs. Thos. Dorland), Contra Costa County, Calif.

Lizzie McCollam (Mrs. Geo. Tasheira), San Francisco, Calif.

Lottie McKean (Mrs. A. T. Winn), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Helen McPherson (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Sumner F. Paine, Sutter County, Calif.   Engaged in farming.

Anna M. Palmer (Mrs. C. C. Weisenburger), Nevada County, Calif.  Taught in Nevada County. Left school teaching to teach music.

David Powell, Sutter County, Calif.  Taught in Sutter and Contra Costa Counties. Left teaching to study medicine. Became a practicing physician and surgeon.

Troy Shelley, Sutter County, Calif.  Missionary in Japan.

John A. Smith, Sonoma County, Calif.

Mary Smith, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Elizabeth Staples (Mrs. Emlin Painter) (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Marion Stokum, San Francisco, Calif.

Mary E. Stone (Mrs. J. M. Caldwell), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Bernal Heights School, San Francisco.

Addie Treadway (Mrs. C. D. Ambrose) (deceased), Napa County, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County.

Mary Ward, Calaveras County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

 

TENTH CLASS – MAY, 1869

 

Mary Bell, San Francisco, Calif.

Annie Bryant (Mrs. Anderson), Sonoma County, Calif.  Taught in Hayes Valley Primary School.

Samuel F. Buckman, New York.  Filled the office of County Superintendent in Buenaventura.

Ruth G. Campbell, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Napa County and in San Francisco.

John M. Curragh, Alameda County, Calif.

 

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Marietta J. Gould (Mrs. Buzzo) (deceased), Santa Clara County.  Died in Butte, Montana about 1925.

Annie E. Grogan, El Dorado County, Calif.

Annie M. Hayburn (Mrs. Ward Brown), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Absalom T. Jones, Sonoma County, Calif.

Louisa Lacey (Mrs. John Rolls), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Emily U. Lindberg, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the South Cosmopolitan Grammar School.

Clara A. Mackie (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Jennie S. Mann (Mrs. A. I. Mann), Taught in San Francisco. Was Principal of the Shotwell Street Primary School.

Kate F. McClogan, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in the South Cosmopolitan Grammar School in San Francisco.

Clara B. Millett (Mrs. W. B. Ranklin), San Mateo County, Calif.

Carrie A. Northcutt (Mrs. Angus Boggs), Solano County, Calif.

Olive G. Parker, San Francisco, Calif.

Adella Pepper, Placer County, Calif.

Mary E. Pratt (Mrs. A. W. Tate), Alameda County, Calif.  Taught in Alameda, Merced and Contra Costa Counties.

Nellie Robinett (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Maggie E. Smith (Mrs. J. T. McGeoghegan), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Modesto and in San Francisco.

Maggie N. Watson (Mrs. J. H. Currier), San Francisco, Calif.

Esther Solomon (Mrs. Haber) (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Mattie H. Stegman, Mariposa County, Calif.

Augusta M. Stowe (Mrs. A.M. Crichton) (deceased), Santa Clara County.  Taught several years in San Jose.

Mary A. Thomas (Mrs. Oscar Dunbar), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Modesto and in San Francisco.

Maggie N. Watson (Mrs. J. H. Currier), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Starr King Primary School.

Alice Weed, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Mateo County, and in San Francisco in the Pacific Heights School.

Ella L. Whitmore (Mrs. Wm. Gregory), Sonoma County, Calif.  Taught in Alameda County.

Mary A. Wright (Mrs. Van Schaick), Monterey County, Calif.   Taught in Monterey County, and in Gilroy. Was Principal of the Gilroy High School.

 

ELEVENTH CLASS – MARCH, 1870

 

Clara A. Adams, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Greenwich Primary School in San Francisco.

Arminta E. Allison (Mrs. Wm. White), Santa Cruz County, Calif.  Has substituted in the San Francisco Schools.

Bertha A. Bicknell (Mrs. D.P. Fenton), Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County, Solano County, and in San Francisco.

Sarah J. Boyle, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary Alice Burrill (Mrs. N.G. Simonds), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Joanna T. Casey, Shasta County, Calif.

Leonora M. Carothers (Mrs. Barry Baldwin) (deceased), Contra Costa County, Calif.

Isabel Carruthers (Mrs. I. Woodland), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in the Garfield Primary School in San Francisco.

James E. Clark, Washington Territory.

Mary A. Colby (Mrs. Ramsdell), Nevada County, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco and Pasadena.

Augusta R. Eastman, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Abbie A. Garland, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Mateo County and in the South Cosmopolitan Primary School in San Francisco.

Annie A. Gibson (Mrs. Frank Clayton), Solano County, Calif.

Katie Green, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary L. Greer (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Loleta Graffelman (Mrs. Winchester), Alameda County, Calif.

Annie E. Haas (Mrs. Roberts Broad), Alameda County, Calif.

Deborah H. Hardman (Mrs. C. Ham), San Francisco, Calif.

Mary J. Henderson, Nevada County, Calif.  Address, 1235 Filbert St., San Francisco.  Taught in Nevada County and in the Noe and Temple Street School in San Francisco.

Alvin J. Howe, Solano County, Calif.  Address, Santa Ana, Orange County (1912). Physician.

Adella Marvin (Mrs. Clark), Santa Clara, Calif.

Mary Matthews, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Annie M. McKean (Mrs. B. F. Rush), Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in Santa Clara County.

Alberta S.Montgomery (Mrs. Ecker), Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in San Jose.

Isabella M. Murphy (Mrs. Miller), Solano County, Calif.

Kate R. O'Leary, San Francisco, Calif.

Rosa Randall (Mrs. Weir), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Contra Costa County.

Georgie A. Stackpole (Mrs. H. Belden), San Francisco, Calif.

Nellie A. Savage (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Sarah I. Shuey, Alameda County, Calif.  Taught in Alameda County. Took an academic course in the State University, followed by a medical course. Graduated with degree of M.D. In 1878. Has practiced medicine since.

Alice R. Snow (Mrs. George Pardee) (deceased), Santa Cruz County, Calif.  Taught in Watsonville.

Maggie Sprott, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco in the Lincoln Evening School.

Helen M. Stone (deceased), Alameda County, Calif.

Emma E.C. Stincen, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco. Was Principal of the Whittier Primary School.

Anna M. Stockton (Mrs. Custer), Sacramento County, Calif.

Fannie A. Sherman (Mrs. Guppy), Contra Costa County, Calif.

Henry I. Tillotson, Solano County, Calif.  Taught in Alameda and Contra Costa County Counties. Later engaged in merchandise business and in gold mining.

Emma Tillotson (deceased), Solano County, Calif.

 

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Cynthia M. Turner (Mrs. P.W. Dooner) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Santa Clara, Calaveras, and San Mateo Counties. Died in Los Angeles in 1920.

Emmet L. Wemple, Sutter County, Calif.   Taught in Contra Costa and Sutter Counties. Graduated from Pacific Medical College in 1873. Practiced medicine in Antioch. Was Superintendent of Schools in Contra Costa County from 1877 to 1879.

Jessie E. Wilson (deceased), San Francisco, Calif.

Marie Withrow, Santa Clara, Calif. Address, 2016 Pine Street, San Francisco.   Was Superintendent of Music in the public schools of San Francisco County for several years. Spent a number of years at Munich, Germany perfecting her musical education. Taught music in the Boys' High School, and in the Polytechnic Institute. Many private pupils and classes also.

Edith L. Wetmore (Mrs. Horswill), Contra Costa County, Calif.

Jennie Yates, Sonoma County, Calif.

 

TWELFTH CLASS – MARCH, 1871

 

N. Jane Bell (Mrs. Sykes), San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in the Sanchez Street Primary School in San Francisco.

Julia I. Benjamin (Mrs. Owen Moran), Solano County, Calif.   Taught in Vallejo, Oakland and San Francisco.

Celina R. Carrau (Mrs. Pechin), San Francisco, Calif.    Was Principal of the Greenwich Street Primary School in San Francisco.

Ellen A. Conmy (Mrs. John Gordon) (deceased), Shasta County, Calif.   Taught in San Jose.

Hattie G. Clark (Mrs. Wm. Faull), Contra Costa County, Calif.   Taught in Amador and Contra Costa Counties.

Mary A. Cottle (deceased), Contra Costa County, Calif.   Taught one year in Santa Clara County.

Mary I. Doyle (Mrs. Franklin S. Reeves), San Francisco, Calif.   Address, Auburn, Calif.   Taught in San Francisco.

Annie A. Fletcher (Mrs. D. O. Kelley), Nevada County, Calif.   Taught in San Francisco.

Emily F. Greer (Mrs. R. Cavin), Sacramento County, Calif.

George H. Hardy, Sierra County, Calif.   Taught in Inyo County. Was County Treasurer eight years.

Mary E. King (Mrs. H.A. Powell), San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in San Francisco.

Matilda M. E. Moore, San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Sanchez Street Primary School in San Francisco.

Louise Maguire (Mrs. John F. Hottel), Napa County, Calif.   Taught in Napa County.

Malvina C. Pelton (Mrs. N. J. Wilson), San Francisco, Calif.   Address, 800 Sutter Street, San Francisco. Taught one year in public schools of San Francisco and four years in Zeitska Institute.

Susanna R. Plank (Mrs. Jas. M. Sharp), San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Sonoma County and Ventura County.

Ella L. Russell (Mrs. Clyne), San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Santa Clara Grammar School.

John C. Ruddock, Tuolumne County, Calif.   Taught in Sacramento and Mendocino Counties. Was County Superintendent of Mendocino County three terms. Was Chief Clerk in the office of the Surveyor-General, San Francisco, at last report.

Ella I. Sherman (Mrs. George Stone), Contra Costa County, Calif.   Taught in Calaveras, Napa, Marin and Contra Costa Counties. Also taught in Oakland.

James M. Sharp, Alameda County, Calif.  Taught in Ventura County. Later engaged in farming.

Marcus T. Sickel, San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Solano, Nevada Counties, and Los Angeles. Superintendent of Overfelt Cattle Company, Oregon.

Mary A. Tyus (Mrs. Williams), Santa Cruz County, Calif.

 

THIRTEENTH CLASS – MARCH, 1872

 

Nellie Ashurst (deceased), Colusa County, Calif.   Taught in Colusa County, was then married and went to Omaha.

Charles R. Beal, Calaveras County, Calif.  Taught fourteen years in Calaveras County, six years of this time as Principal of San Andreas School. Was Superintendent of Schools in that county eight years. Edited a paper at San Andreas ten years. Was Inspector of Customs, San Francisco in 1889.

Bessie Dixon (Mrs. Joseph Boswick), Marin County, Calif.   Taught in San Francisco in Valencia Grammar School.

Phoebe A. Frisbie (Mrs. E.L. Bailey), Solano County, Calif.   Taught in Vallejo, also private school, and in Monterey County. Later address, 262 N. 8th Street, San Jose.

Julia Fish (Mrs. Parker), Santa Clara County, Calif.

George C. Hixon, Santa Clara County, Calif.   Last address Santa Barbara. Taught in Butte, Monterey, Santa Clara, and Tulare Counties. Farming at last report.

Emily H. Hilton, Alameda County, Calif.   Taught in Oakland.

Thomas E. Kennedy (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in San Jose until 1885. Practiced law for some time. Later was head Inspector of Schools in San Francisco.

Charles E. Markham, Solano County, Calif.   Address, Staten Island, New York. Taught in San Luis Obispo County, Christian College, Sonoma and El Dorado Counties. Was County Superintendent of El Dorado County seven years. Has spent much time in literary work. Has written poems and sketches for prominent magazines, and delivered lectures upon subjects connected with English and American literature. Married. One son. Attained international fame when his poem, “The Man with the Hoe” was published in 1898. Has been a resident of New York for over twenty-five years. Is constantly writing and has published several books of poems. Mr. Markham is today (1927) recognized as the Dean of American poetry. He visited San Jose in 1927 and was given by the literary residents of this city, as well as San Francisco and Oakland, the honor due a man who has so eminently distinguished himself.

Agusta M. Phelps, Yolo County, Calif.   Taught in Contra Costa County, Solano County, Plumas County, Yolo County, also taught in Vermont. Was Superintendent of Schools in South Hero for a time.

 

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Martha J. Peckham (Mrs. H. F. Pray) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Santa Clara County, Napa County, Solano County and Mendocino County.

Chattie K. Rixon (Mrs. Chauncey Gaines), San Francisco, Calif.

Virginia P. Stephens (Mrs. Zumwalt), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught several years in Southern California, then married V.M.P. Zumwalt, of Visalia.

Eulalia A. Terry (Mrs. E. A. Wilson), San Joaquin County, Calif.  Taught in Sacramento County and in San Francisco ten years. Was also Principal of the Temescal School at last report in 1889.

Etta M. Wagenseller (Mrs. John Leininger) (deceased), Sonoma County, Calif.   Taught in Sonoma, Mendocino, Tehama, and Butte Counties.

Alma Wallace, Napa County, Calif.   Taught in Napa County, later taught in Los Angeles.

Fannie Wignall (Mrs. Simon Clasey), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in San Luis Obispo County and Santa Clara County.

 

FOURTEENTH CLASS – MARCH, 1873

 

Luis Bruch (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Was Principal of Washington School, San Jose, until he retired.

Joseph Cahill (Mrs. G. E. McStay), San Joaquin County, Calif.

Anna Carroll (Mrs. Hawley), Placer County, Calif.   Taught in Placer County, San Diego and in Santa Barbara County.

Lemuel J. Chipman, Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Yuba County and in Santa Clara County as Principal of Schools in San Jose. Was City Superintendent of San Jose Schools two years. Was County Superintendent of Santa Clara County for many years.

William F. F. Foss (deceased), Yuba County, Calif.   Taught in Yuba and Santa Clara Counties.

Henry Goodcell, San Bernardino County, Calif.   Taught two years. Was County Superintendent, then practiced law. Marrie Minnie A. Bennett, Class of March, 1874, who died in Nov. 1886.

Dora B. Harris (Mrs. Rogers), San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Vallejo and in Kern County.

Mary E. Hendrix (Mrs. Thompson), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Placer County, Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County and in Oregon.

Lella Kratzer (Mrs. Bacher), 357 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose, Calif.   Taught in Placer County, Plumas County, San Benito County and Santa Clara County. Married January 14, 1877. Two children. A grandson was graduated from this institution in 1927. Mrs. Bacher was the only representative of her class at the Home Coming in 1927.

Luella Kelsoe (Mrs. Samuel Hirst), Sonoma County, Calif.   Taught in Sonoma and Lake Counties.

Mary Merritt (Mrs. J. Henry), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Isabel Merritt (Mrs. Campbell), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Last address, Tulare. Taught in Napa, Plumas, Monterey, Santa Clara, Merced, Tulare Counties, and San Francisco.

Ella H. Murdock (Mrs. Burnett), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Santa Clara County.

Julia F. Martin (Mrs. Hornsback), Santa Clara  County, Calif.   Taught in Gilroy, afterwards in Los Angeles.

Lizzie Roberts (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Delia R. Snow, Washington Territory.   Taught in El Dorado, Placer and Plumas Counties. In 1874 went to Utah, to take a position in a mission school at Salt Lake. Then taught in a mission school in Southern Utah.

Nellie M. Starr (Mrs. A.  J. Hanson). Taught before marriage. Address, 3735 McCelland St., Oakland.

Olivia L. Taylor, San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Sacramento County, and in State of Nevada.

Etta M. Tilton, San Mateo County, Calif.   Taught in San Mateo.

Augusta S. Withington (Mrs. W. H. S. Welch), Amador County, Calif.    Last address, Ione. Taught in Merced, Contra Costa, and Amador Counties.

 

FIFTEENTH CLASS-MARCH, 1874

 

Cecilia M. Auld, Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Los Angeles.

Minnie A. Bennett (Mrs. Henry Goodcell) (deceased), El Dorado County, Calif.   Mrs. Goodcell taught for about eight years.

Mary E. D. Blackstaff (Mrs. John McCarthy), 1021 Cole St., San Francisco, Calif.   Taught in Marin County two years. Married, September 16, 1877. Adopted two girls – one (Mrs. Louis J. Signer) living.

Mrs. McCarthy died July 25, 1927.

Mary Bird (Dr. Mary Bowers) Santa Clara County, Calif.   Last address, 132 Irving St., San Francisco. Taught three years in Los Angeles. Principal of the Willow Glen School, Santa Clara County. Married Dr. Milton J. Bowers of San Francisco. Studied medicine and practiced with her husband until his death.

Edward R. Brooks, Contra Costa County, Calif.

Ella W. Carswell (Mrs. Wm. Reynolds), San Francisco, Calif.

Lizzie Cory (Mrs. H.C. Ledyard), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Last address, 74 North Tenth Street, San Jose. Taught in San Jose to 1878. Married in 1879. Three children. Resided in Constantinople, Turkey, for several years, also in China, and Japan, Siberia and Russia. Returned to California and husband died in Los Angeles. Taught again in San Jose vicinity. Mrs. Ledyard attended the Home Coming in 1927.

Alice A. Crumry, El Dorado County, Calif.  

Frances M. Day (deceased), San Joaquin County, Calif.   Taught in San Joaquin and in Calaveras County.

Florence Grigsby (Mrs. E. C. Singletary), Wisconsin.   Present address, San Jose, 1245, The Alameda.  Taught two and one-half years in Training Department of the Normal School at San Jose.

Pacific Guild (Mrs. N. S. Nichols), Santa Cruz County, Calif.   Taught in Santa Cruz County.

Hulda A. Hammond (Mrs. C. D. Crane), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Last address, Hotel Coit, Oakland.  Taught in Monterey, Dixon and San Jose. After her marriage lived in Ottawa, Kansas, until her husband's death, in 1907.

 

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S. Estelle Hammond (Mrs. W. S. Greathead), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Last address, Pearl Ave., San Jose. Taught in public schools of Santa Clara and San Jose. Married in 1877. One child. Work suspended after marriage for six years. Left the profession in 1887 for other business. Was for a time editor of a children's magazine. From 1905 to 1923 was member of Faculty of the San Jose State Normal School. 

Ella A. Jackson (Mrs. Henry Fisher) Yolo County, Calif.

W. Jerome Jewell (deceased), Solano County, Calif.   Went to New York State in 1875, where he taught for eleven years. On account of failing health, returned to California in 1886. After a years' rest, began teaching in Pomona, Los Angeles County. Had taught six weeks when he was taken ill with typhoid fever. Died December 4, 1887.

Isabelle Johnson (Mrs. Curtis Johnson) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Sonoma and Humboldt Counties. Died at her home in Rohnerville.

Samuel E. Johnson, Sutter County, Calif.

Ariadne Ketcham (Mrs. L. L. Nattinger) (deceased), Humboldt County, Calif.   Taught in El Dorado and Santa Clara Counties.

Sallie E. Keefer (Mrs. John Wade) (deceased), El Dorado County, Calif.   Taught in El Dorado, Plumas, Yuba Counties, Oakland and State of Arizona.

Susie E. Kneedler (Mrs. A. P. Logan), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Solano and Santa Clara Counties.  

Edith J. Martin, San Bernardino, Calif.   Taught in San Bernardino County.

Emmeline R. Mead (Mrs. Leslie A. Jordan), San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in Contra Costa County.

Chas. N. Miller, Santa Clara County, Calif.  Physician.

Mrs. Amanda Miller, Santa Clara County, Calif.

Mrs. Maria E. Mumford, Sacramento County, Calif.  Was Principal of a public school in Sacramento.

Maria E. Murdoch, Santa Clara County, Calif.  Taught in Los Angeles.

Annie L. Murphy (deceased), Alameda County, Calif.

Maggie O'Rourke, San Francisco, Calif.  Taught in San Francisco.

Mary A. Taylor (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Mountain View, Santa Clara County.

William A. Wash, Missouri.   Taught in Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Tulare and Butte Counties, then went to Washington and Oregon. Edited a paper at Goldendale, Washington from 1881 to 1886, lated (sic) edited “Polk County Itemizer.” Published a book concerning the late war entitled “Camp, Field, and Prison Life.”

Julia M. Whiting (Mrs. E. J. Doering), Santa Clara County, Calif.

N. Zoraide Woodward, Merced County, Calif.   Taught in Alameda County and Merced County.

 

SIXTEENTH CLASS-MARCH, 1875

 

Emmogene A. Barnes (Mrs. Rufus Fiske) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught in Santa Clara County and in Marin County.

Henry Bateman, Napa County, Calif.

Emma S. Buckley (Dr. Emma S. Buckley), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Latest address, 2111 Hyde Street, San Francisco. Taught since graduation in San Jose. Studied medicine. Did hospital work in France during the war. Is now (1927) practicing in San Francisco.

Minnie Clara Burt, Amador County, Calif.   Taught twenty-one yetars (sic) since graduation. Was one year at U.C. Matron of Florence Cottage, Oakland eight years. Address 980 6th Ave., Oakland.

Mary E. Carr (Mrs. J. T. Apperson), Solano County, Calif.

Charlotte K. Clark, San Francsico, Calif.   Taught in Napa County, later San Francisco in Mission Grammar School.

Marie Cole, Napa County, Calif.   Graduated from the State University in 1879.

Anna B. Cowie  (Mrs. Denniston), Tuolumne County, Calif.   Address, 1521 Portola Ave., San Francisco.   Taught one year. Prominent in club work.

Abbie A. Davies (Mrs. Hayford), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Address 2433 Ward St., Berkeley. Taught in Contra Costa and Placer Counties. Married October 19, 1876. Was present at 1927 Home Coming.

Belle J. Fagg (Mrs. F. H. Fowler), Yuba County, Calif.   Taught in Napa, Yuba, San Diego, Sierra and Placer Counties.

M. Fannie Farmer (Mrs. Geo. Bennett), Sonoma County, Calif.

Julia B. Farnsworth, Santa Clara County, Calif.

Charles F. Farnham, San Joaquin County, Calif.   Left teaching to study medicine. In 1889 was practicing medicine and surgery in San Francisco. Professor in Cooper Medical College.

Harriet N. Gilmor (Mrs. W. E. Deering), Napa County, Calif.

Nathan C. Hanscom, San Joaquin County, Calif.   Taught in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Counties, Washington, six months; and Calaveras County. For three years was traveling correspondent and editor of newspapers.

Julia L. Hauck, Sacramento County, Calif.   Last address, 423 South Ninth Street, San Jose. Taught in San Benito County, San Jose, Oakland, and Germany. Taught in a private school in Dresden. Miss Hauck's history includes nine years of study and travel in Europe. While teaching in Oakland she took courses at the State University. For eleven years she has been connected with the San Jose Evening Schools where her proficiency in modern languages and her background of experience among the peoples of Europe have made her an invaluable instructor. Her persistent work among the foreign mothers has made her a loved visitor among our alien population, and her influence in adult education has been a marked piece of work in the San Jose school department. Miss Hauck has to credit in 1927 sixty years of teaching, twenty-four in public schools and the remainder of the time in private institutions, among them being College of the Pacific and Washburn school.

Alice M. Heath, Los Angeles County, Calif.

David F. Henning, Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught several years in Santa Clara County.

Minnie B. Hollenbeck (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Millie S. Howard, Contra Costa County, Calif.   Taught in Contra Costa and Plumas Counties.

Rosina Intermille (Mrs. Morris Smith), Illinois.   Taught in Plumas, Butte, Lassen and Modoc Counties.

Millie R. Jones (Mrs. G. Ivancovich), Marin County, Calif.

Mary A. C. Leahy (Mrs. Dennis Donovan) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif.   Taught near Watsonville. Her son, Rev. James F. Donovan, was a former member of the faculty of S.C. University. Mrs. Donovan died in San Francisco in January, 1928.

 

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Mary Lewis (Mrs. Bronson), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Contra Costa and Santa Clara Counties. Married April 21, 1878. Six children.

David F. Little (deceased), Monterey County, Calif. Taught three years in Monterey. Gave up teaching because of ill health. Died at his home, in Nova Scotia, July, 1884. He did some literary work, mostly poetical. Published a volume of poems.

Kate Martin (Mrs. Lewis Bozeman), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Isabel May (Mrs. W. H. Church), Alameda County, Calif.

Mary A. McDonnell (Mrs. J. W. Davis), Nevada. Taught six years in Gold Hill, Nevada. Married August 1, 1881.

Sabia E. Morey, San Joaquin County, Calif. Taught in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin Counties, and in San Francisco. Teaching in Tehama Primary School at last report.

Rose E. Morgan, Tuolumne County, Calif. Taught in Merced, Tuolumne, and Mendocino Counties, and in San Francisco. Was teaching in Peobody Primary School, San Francisco in 1889. Held office of County Superintendent in Tuolumne County two years.

Annie J. Neary, Sacramento County, Calif. Taught in Sacramento.

William Pascoe (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Sonoma, Santa Clara, Shasta, Modoc, Contra Costa, Alameda, and Humboldt Counties. Work suspended four years for other business. In the Auditing Department of Wells & Fargo Express Company, San Francisco. Married to Jessica G. Allen, Class of March, 1877.

Ellis J. Root, Tuolumne County, Calif. Taught six years. Has been engaged in mercantile business.

Lizzie P. Sargent (Mrs. Lizzie P. Wilson), (deceased), Amador County, Calif. Taught in Amador County, Oakland, and seven years in Normal School, San Jose. Was Principal of the Training Department.

Emma Schenck (Mrs. Fred Grimes), San Francisco, Calif. Taught in Marin County.

James W. Shirley (deceased), Lake County, Calif. Was County Superintendent of Lake County in 1878.

Adelia A. Stockton (Mrs. R. B. Stockton), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in San Luis Obispo County and in San Benito County.

Emma M. Toy (Mrs. L. J. Chipman), San Francisco, Calif. Last address, 410 E. San Salvador St., San Jose. Taught in San Jose.

Belle J. Turner (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught five years.

Florence M. Watkins (Mrs. Andrew P. Hill), Santa Clara County, Calif. Present address, Sacramento. Taught eight years. Has written history of her husband's work in connection with the Big Basin.

Alice M. Wells (Mrs. A. B. Nye), Solano County, Calif. Last address, Oakland, California, Peralto Apts. Taught in Solano and Alameda Counties. Her husband was State Controller under Governor Pardee and died some years ago. Mrs. Nye is a prominent member of the Ebell Club, Oakland.

Annie A. Wible, Merced County, Calif. Taught in Contra Costa, Monterey, San Mateo and Humboldt Counties.

Julia F. Wible (Mrs. Bugbey), Tuolumne County, Calif.

Mary E. Wilson (Mrs. T. C. George), Santa Clara County, Calif. Last address, Carmel Highlands. Taught in public schools of Santa Clara County, in Normal School, San Jose; was Principal of the Training Department six years. Married June 7, 1888. Studied in Chicago University. Degree from Stanford. For three years was member of State Text-book Committee. Mrs. George was one of the most beloved and revered members of the Normal Faculty, her later work besides teaching, being that of Dean of Women. Since resigning in 1920, she has lived at her beautiful home in Carmel Highlands, except during her periods of travel which in 1927 included a round the world trip via the Southern Hemisphere.

William R. Wilson, Santa Clara County, Calif.

 

SEVENTEENTH CLASS-MARCH, 1876

 

Tidie Ayres (deceased), San Mateo County, Calif. Taught in Redwood City. Died in October, 1879.

Dollie C. Babcock (Mrs. Albert Maxson), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Mary P. Bassett (Mrs. O. A. Hale), Santa Clara County, Calif. Address, 2000 Broadway, San Francisco. Taught in San Jose five years.

Lizzie Banks (Mrs. L. B. Sparks), Nevada County, Calif.

Sarah F. Bonney (Mrs. Milton Henderson), Alameda County, Calif.

Annie B. Campbell, San Francisco, Calif. Taught in Sonoma and in San Francisco, in Washington Grammar School.

Clara Belle Churchill, Santa Clara County, Calif. Address, 315 Vine Street, Paso Robles. Taught in Santa Clara, Trinity, San Benito and San Luis Obispo Counties. Miss Churchill has given long years of faithful service. She was a member of the County Board of Education for five years and was President of the Woman's Club for one term. Has now retired.

Henry F. Courter, Monterey County, Calif. Last address, Healdsburg. Taught in Santa Clara County. Was Principal of East San Jose School and also taught music. Typesetter and assistant editor in the Pacific Press, Oakland. Was Professor of Mathematics in Healdsburg College.

Nathaniel W. Davis (deceased), Solano County, Calif.

Addie A. Davis (Mrs. C. O. Spaulding), Sacramento County, Calif. Last address, Folsom, Sacramento County. Taught in El Dorado County and in Sacramento County and in Folsom.

Alfred Dixon, Yuba County, Calif. Taught in Contra Costa County. Later engaged in mercantile business.

Carrie S. Fairchild, San Mateo County, Calif. Taught eleven years. Was teaching in Broadway Grammar School, when last reporting.

Benjamin H. Franklin, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Cambria. Left teaching September, 1881, to engage in mercantile business.

Maggie Gardner (Mrs. O. S. Meeker) (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Contra Costa, Merced Counties, and San Jose.

Henry C. Gesford, Napa County, Calif. Taught in Napa County until 1880. Then went East and took a law course in Iowa University and Michigan University. Began the practice of law in Napa City, May, 1882. Was Superintendent of Schools in Napa County, 1877-8; State Senator, 1887-8.

 

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Minnie F. Hollron (Mrs. Gannon), San Francisco, Calif. Taught in San Francisco.

Ada Locke (Mrs. W. H. Cooke), (deceased), Taught in Marin, San Joaquin, Napa, and Tulare Counteis.

Susan McMullen (Mrs. Fred Runyon), Alameda County, Calif.

Katie Mitchell (Mrs. H. H. West), Contra Costa County, Calif. Address, 694 33rd Street, Oakland. Taught in Lassen, and Contra Costa Counties. Went to the Hawaiian Islands in December, 1888, on account of her husband's health, and taught there a short time. Returned in 1889, after the death of her husband.

Kate McDonald (Mrs. B. F. Hyde), State of Nevada. Taught in State of Nevada and in San Bernardino County.

Lila Murch (Mrs. Kirkpatrick), San Mateo County, Calif. Taught in Redwood City.

Katie F. O'Hara (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in San Jose.

Mary A. Packham (Mrs. G. F. Pillot), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in San Mateo County; the remainder of the time since graduation taught in San Jose High School. Married July 3, 1876. One child. Mrs. Pillot was for nearly fifty years one of the ablest and best loved teachers in the San Jose School Department. She died in 1926, after a brief illness. This is a tribute paid her by one of the graduates of this school gifted in expression:

 

Passing through this world like a flame,

I have warmed,

I have seared,

I have illumined.

Tell me before I flicker into the darkness,

Is there somewhere a torch that I have kindled?

 

Helen N. Penniman (Mrs. Geo. C. Pardee), Alameda County, Calif. Latest address, East Oakland, 672 11th Street. Taught ten years in the Grove Street School, Oakland. George C. Pardee was governor of California from 1903 to 1907.

Sheldon Raney, San Joaquin County, Calif. Taught in Fresno, Santa Cruz, and Contra Costa Counties. Left teaching in 1884, on account of failing health and engaged in mercantile business. Was Postmaster and Justice of the Peace.

Mary C. Rodden (Mrs. Warfield), Tuolumne County, Calif.

Mary F. Russel (deceased), Alameda County, Calif.

Ella Said (Mrs. W. E. Houghton), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Solano, Mono, and Kern Counties. Married December, 1880. Husband died in 1895. At this date (1927) has taught thirty-seven years.

Mrs. Frances C. Sawyer (Mrs. August Blohm), Santa Clara County, Calif. Address, Pacific Grove. Taught in High School, San Jose, then in Pacific Grove High School until her marriage. Is now a widow.

Sebastian Shaw, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Santa Clara, Napa, Merced, Contra Costa, Sonoma, and Los Angeles Counties.

Alice L. Stockton (Mrs. J. A. Boulware), Santa Clara County, Calif. Latest address, Palo Alto. Taught in Santa Clara County.

M. Jeannette Stone (Mrs. E. A. Bunce), Contra Costa County, Calif.

Mary O. Thomas (Mrs. Thomas), Los Angeles County, Calif. Taught some years in Los Angeles County.

Caroline Trimble (Mrs. Stanley Stephenson), Alameda County, Calif. Taught in Placer, Alameda, and Marin Counties.

A. Belle Wear (Mrs. Clement), Santa Clara County, Calif. Last Address, Livermore, Alameda County. Taught at intervals in Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, and Alameda Counties. Filled office of Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Oakland for a time.

Ella E. Whelan (Mrs. Greenman), Alameda County, Calif. Taught in the Oakland public schools.

Oliver P. Workman, (deceased), Sonoma County, Calif.

Alice M. White (Mrs. David), Merced County, Calif. Latest address, Sturgeon, Merced County. Taught in Merced County and Sacramento County. Married May 19, 1877, and moved to Michigan. Returned to California in 1888. Since that time has taught in Merced County.

 

EIGHTEENTH CLASS-MARCH, 1877

 

Jessica G. Allen (Mrs. Wm. Pascoe), (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif. Oldest daughter of Charles H. Allen. Taught in Humboldt, Plumas, and San Mateo Counties; was assistant in Normal School five months; and after taught in Hester School, San Jose. Married July 20, 1880. After her husband's death Mrs. Pascoe went to Hawaii and taught in a mission school several years. She returned to San Francisco and lived there until her death in 1923.

Julia Anderson, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Ventura County.

Mrs. Josie R. Armstrong, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in San Benito County.

Modena I. Baker (Mrs. Tom Scott), Alameda County, Calif. Taught in Alameda County.

Eudora A. Barnes (Mrs. Crossette), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Santa Clara County, later taught voice-building and recitation.

Annie S. Barry, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in San Joaquin and Calaveras Counties, Santa Cruz High School, Santa Clara County, and in Tulare City.

Belle Bird (Mrs. Wood), Santa Clara County, Calif. Address, Los Angeles. Taught in Willow Glen school, San Jose.

E. May Black (Mrs. Crandall), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Los Gatos, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.

Mary I. Brown, Alameda County, Calif. Taught in Alameda County and Los Angeles.

Samuel A. Brown, Portland, Oregon. Taught in Napa, Lake and Tulare Counties. Left teaching in August, 1878, to study medicine. A practicing physician when last reporting.

May Carpenter (Mrs. J. E. Ellis)

Alice M. Chaplin, (deceased), Mendocino County, Calif.

Daniel Crough, Tuolumne County, Calif. Taught in Tuolumne, Calaveras, and Inyo Counties. During 1883 and 1884 was Under Sheriff of Inyo County.

 

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Blanche L. Downs, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in San Bernardino.

Ishmael Green, Colusa County, Calif. Taught in Sutter, San Joaquin, Napa, and Calaveras Counties. Left profession in 1882. Since that time has engaged in mercantile business.

Mrs. Cornelia Haile, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Lassen, Placer, Siskiyou, Shasta, Kern Counties, State of Nevada, and Santa Clara county. Also taught in San Jose.

William Herrod, Nevada County, Calif. Taught in Nevada County, State of Nevada, Butte County, Monterey County. Attended State University. Principal in the Oakland Academy.

M. Jennie Hoyt (Mrs. George W. Worthen), San Mateo County, Calif. Address 1014 Willow, San Jose. For many years taught in Lincoln School, San Jose.

Lizzie F. Keller, San Francisco County, Calif. Latest address, Los Angeles. Taught in Santa Clara County, in San Jose, and in Los Angeles City Schools.

Blanche McCowan (Mrs. John Landis), Mendocino County, Calif. Taught in Mendocino County.

Kate More (Mrs. Chas. B. Wells), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Contra Costa County.

Lulu L. Moore, San Francisco County, Calif. Taught in San Benito County and in Hawaiian Islands. Resigned position in Honolulu April 9, 1886. Since that time has been traveling and studying in Europe. Last report was living at Meran, Austrian Tyrol.

Susie D. Moore (Mrs. Heapy), San Francisco County, Calif. Taught in San Francisco and in San Benito. Married in Liverpool in May, 1881, where she resided until the death of her husband in 1888. She then went to live with her sister at Meran, Austrian Tyrol. Has one son.

Allie P. Overacker (Mrs. Geo. Hawkins), Alameda County, Calif. Taught in Napa County.

Alma Patterson, Santa Clara County, Calif. Latest address, Almaden Road, San Jose. Taught in Monterey County, Santa Clara County, and in San Diego City. Is it present (1927) a Rural School Supervisor in Santa Clara County.

Minerva M. Quinby (Mrs. E. A. Kennedy), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Nellie L. Rich (Mrs. C. L. Neale), Santa Clara County, Calif.

Dora B. Ries (Mrs. Bernard Faymonville) (deceased), San Luis Obispo County, Calif. Taught in Alpine County and Fresno County.

Ella Riley, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Eureka, Nevada.

George E. Root (deceased), Tuolumne County, Calif. Taught in Nevada County and at Haywards, Alameda County.

Ruth Royce, Alameda County, Calif. Permanent address, Box 27, Los Altos, c/o Miss Sugraham. Taught in Preparatory Class of Normal School, Santa Cruz County, and as substitute teacher in Normal School. Librarian of State Normal School, San Jose, from 1881 to 1918. Since her resignation, Miss Royce has been private secretary to Dean Gresham, San Francisco.

Libbie Salkeld (Mrs. M. N. Stone), State of Nevada.

Allan P. Sanborn, Solano County, Calif. Taught in Benicia, in Sutter County, Calaveras County, Contra Costa County, Sonoma County.

Nathalie A. Selling, San Francisco County, Calif. Taught in Redding Primary School.

Kate Siddons (Mrs. J. C. Ruddock) (deceased), Mendocino County, Calif. Taught in Mendocino County.

Eunice I. Snedaker (Mrs. Judson Rice), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Willow Glen, Santa Clara County, in Illinois, in Contra Costa County and in San Jose.

Josie E. Sprague (Mrs. J. H. Ward), San Francisco County, Calif. Taught in the public schools of Santa Cruz and as a governess in Germany.

Eliza J. Stewart (Mrs. B. A. Strobridge), Alameda County, Calif. Taught in Alameda County.

Nannie W. Teaford (deceased), Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in the public schools of Santa Clara.

Maggie L. Wiley (Mrs. Edgar Lewis), Santa Cruz County, Calif.

Clara B. Williams, Santa Clara County, Calif. Taught in Santa Clara County. Afterwards engaged in fruit raising in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Marianne Wurtemberg (Mrs. M. S. Kohlberg), Mendocino County, Calif. Taught in Mendocino County.

 

 

 

 

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Source: Greathead, Mrs. Estelle, The Story of an Inspiring Past, Historical Sketch of the San Jose State Teachers College from 1862 to 1928.  Published by San Jose State Teachers College, 1928.

© 2015  Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

 






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