Helen M. Clark
Native of Canada. Graduate of the Toronto Normal School, where she taught several years. Principal of Training School, October, 1862, to May, 1864. Assistant in Training School, September to December, 1865. Taught several years in the San Francisco Schools. Afterwards became Mrs. Boyle. Resides in San Francisco. |
Kate Sullivan
Assistant in Training School, November, 1862, to May, 1864. Principal of Training School, July, 1864, to June, 1865. Afterwards taught in San Francisco public schools until her death, July 17, 1879. Further particulars cannot be obtained. |
Mary R. Harris
Assistant in Normal Department, January, 1864, to February, 1864. Resigned to take a position in San Francisco schools. Further particulars unknown. |
Mary D. Bodwell
Assistant in Normal Department, February, 1864, to May, 1864. Resigned to take a position in Girls' High School, San Francisco. Further particulars unknown. |
Eliza W. Houghton
Native of Massachusetts. Educated in public schools of Massachusetts and at Mount Holyoke Seminary. Was a pupil of George R. Emerson, in Boston, three years. Taught in Harrisburg Seminary, Pennsylvania, and Providence High School, Rhode Island; in Normal School from July, 1864, to April, 1877, with leave of absense during part of 1869 and part of 1876. Was Preceptress from August, 1873, to April, 1877. Has not taught since. Present address, San José. |
Mrs. C.H. Stout
Principal of the Training School, September, 1865, to fall of 1868. Afterwards became Mrs. Shillaber. Resided in San Francisco several years. Died a year or two ago. Further particulars cannot be obtained. |
Mrs. Mary L. Swett
Native of Connecticut. Educated in Thompson Academy, Connecticut, and San Francisco public schools. Graduated at San Francisco Evening Normal School. Received State educational diploma November, 1865. Vice-Principal of Training School, January, 1866, to June, 1867. Teacher in the Normal School, August, 1867, to December, 1867. Has not taught since. Married to John Swett, May 8, 1862. Has four children. Present address, Martinez, California. |
Mrs. C.R. Beale
Assistant in Normal Department, July 1866, to June, 1867. Resigned to take a position in Girls' High School, San Francisco. Further particulars not received. |
Mrs. P.C. Cook
Assistant in Training School part of school year 1867-68. |
Mary Heydenfedt
Assistant in Training School part of school year 1867-68. |
A.L. Fitzgerald
Assistant in Normal Department, spring term, 1868. |
Miss Bush
Assistant in Normal Department, spring term, 1868. |
Mrs. Dorcas Clark
Educated in Canada. Was a teacher of many years' experience when elected to a position in the California State Normal School. Assistant in Normal Department from May, 1868, to March, 1873. Specialties, mathematics and history. Has taught most of the time since in Girls' High School, San Francisco. Further particulars have not been received. |
Matilda Lewis
Graduate of State Normal School, Oswego, New York. Principal of Training School, 1869-1871. Afterwards became Mrs. Robert W. Jordan, and resided in San Francisco. Died October 3, 1884. |
Letitia Ryder
Assistant in Normal Department, 1869. |
Mary J. Titus
Native of new York. Educated in public schools of Wisconsin and Oswego Normal School, New York. Graduated February, 1870. Taught in Ogdensburg, New York, two and a half years; in San José Normal School since November, 1872. Was Principal of Training Department ten years; away on leave of absence one year; teacher in Normal Department since August, 1883. Specialties, mathematics and pedagogy. Preceptress sincce August, 1888. |
Lucy M. Washburn
Native of New York. Educated in New York public schools and Academy, Normal School at Fredonia, Vassar College, and Cornell University. Taught one year in Westfield Academy, New York; on year in Academic Department of Normal School, Fredonia, New York; two years in Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Virginia; in Normal School, San José, from March, 1873, to present time, with leave of absence of one year. Specialties, mathematics, physiology, and zoölogy. |
Cornelia Walker
Native of New York. Educated in New York and Minnesota, in public schools and seminaries, and in Normal School at Winona, Minnesota. Taught in city schools of Minnesota four years; in Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota, four years; Root's Normal Musical Institute, Chicago, one season; in Normal School, San José, since November, 1873. For the first year, was teacher of Preparatory Class; since November, 1874, in Normal Department. Specialties, grammar, literature, and pedagogy. |
J.H. Braly
Native of Missouri. Educated in public schools and University of Pacific, California, and in Cumberland University, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1859. Taught in public schools of California six years, and in private academies five years. Superintendent of Schools in Santa Clara County, 1868-69. Was Vice-Principal and teacher in Normal School, San José, from August, 1873, till resignation, December 1883. Specialty, natural philosophy. Married in 1861 to Miss Martha Hughes. Six children, three living. Present address, San Diego. |
Florence Grigsby (Mrs.
E.C. Singletary)
Native of Wisconsin. Educated in public schools of Wisconsin and in California State Normal School, from which she graduated in 1874. Taught in Primary Class of Training Department from June, 1874, to November, 1876. Married January 11, 1877. Two children. Resides in San José. |
Annie E. Chamberlain
Native of Wisconsin. Graduate of Normal Department, University of Wisconsin. Taught in Milwaikee High School several years; in Normal School, San José, from November, 1874, to March, 1879. Specialty, mathematics. Has since taught two years in the Milwaukee Academy, and five years in the High School. Present address, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
Phebe P. Gribsby (Mrs.
Jas. T. Hamilton)
Native of Wisconsin. Educated in district schools of Wisconsin and in Platteville Normal School. Graduated in 1871. Taught in Wisconsin public schools three years; in Normal School, San José, from November, 1874, to December, 1885. For nine years of this time was teacher of the Preparatory Class; for the succeeding two years, taught in the Junior Class. Not taught since. Married June 7, 1881. One child. Address, 1013 Scott Street, San Francisco. |
Henry B. Norton
Native of New York. Educated in public schools of New York, Wisconsin, and Illinois, Beloit College, Wisconsin, and State Normal University, Illinois. Taught in public schools of Illinois, in Illinois Normal University, and seven years in State Normal School, Emporia, Kansas. Teacher of science in San José Normal School from June, 1875, to June, 1885. Specialies, chemistry, zoölogy, and physical geography. Professor Norton died at his home, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, June 22, 1885, of congestion of the brain. |
Ira More
Native of Maine. Educated at Bridgewater Normal School, Massachusetts (graduated in 1849), and Yale College (graduated in 1855). Taught in Massachusetts public schools six months; Bridgewater Normal School, one year; Chicago Normal School, one year; Illinois Normal University, four years; Principal of Normal School, St. Cloud, Minnesota, seven years; teacher in Normal School, San José, July, 1876, to June, 1883. Specialties, mathematics and physical geography. Since that time has been Principal of State Normal School, Los Angeles, California. Married April 16, 1857, to Miss Lucy C. Drew. Two children living. |
Helen S. Wright
Native of New York. Educated in public schools and academy, Fredonia, New York, and Boston Art School. Preceptress of Fredonia Academy between five and six years (during this time the school was made a Normal School); Preceptress, Academic Department, Potsdam Normal School, two years; teacher in a seminary in Kentucky, two years; teacher in Normal School, San José, from June, 1876, to June, 1888. Specialties, English Language and literature. Preceptress from August, 1877, to June, 1888. Absent during school year 1888-89, on leave of absence, traveling in Europe. |
Mary E. Wilson (Mrs.
T.C. George)
Native of Wisconsin. Educated in public schools and California State Normal School. Graduated in 1875. Taught one year in public schools of Santa Clara County; critic teacher in Primary Class, Training Department, six years, 1876 to 1882; Principal of Training Department, six years, 1882 to 1888. Married June 7, 1888, to Professor T.C. George, of University of the Pacific. Has since spent a year traveling in Europe. Address, San José. |
Ruth Royce
Native of California. Educated in public schools and State Normal School. Graduated in 1877. Taught in Preparatory Class, two years; substitute teacher and assistant in Junior Classes, three years; Librarian since 1881. |
Mary E.B. Norton
Native of New York. Educated at Rockford Seminary, Illinois, and in Berlin, Germany. Taught two years in public schools of Illinois and Iowa; fifteen years in Rockford Seminary, Illinois; one year, International Academy, Berlin; in Normal School from January, 1878, till resignation, December, 1888. Specialties, botany and geography. Address, San José. |
Frances L. Webster (Mrs.
L.I. Fish)
Native of New York. Educated in New York public schools and State Normal School at Potsdam, from which she graduated in 1875. Taught one term in State Normal School at Leavenworth, Kansas; two years in Iowa State Normal School; in San José Normal School from August, 1878, to March, 1881. Specialties, elocution and composition. Not taught since. Married March 31, 1881. Two children. Address, Martinez, California. |
Margaret K. Scott
Native of Indiana. Educated in California public and State Normal Schools, and in Oxford Female College, Ohio. Taught in public schools of California; in Training Department of San José Normal School, two and a half years, beginning August, 1879. For past six years has been teaching in Los Angeles, as Grammar School Principal. Now Principal of Eighth Street School Has spent the past year traveling in Europe. |
Jessica G. Allen
Native of New York. Educated in public schools and State Normal Schools, Platteville, Wisconsin, and San José, California. Graduated in 1877. Taught in public schools of California one year; in Junior Class of Normal School, five months--spring term, 1880. Has taught for past four years in Hester School, San José. Married July 20, 1880. |
Addie Murray
Native of New York. Educated in public and Normal Schools of Minnesota. Graduate of Normal School, Winona, Minnesota. Taught in public schools of Minnesota and California. Was Principal of Model Department of Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnestoa, 1874 to 1876. Substitute teacher in San José Normal School, two years, beginning August, 1880. Subjects taught, grammar, arithmetic, and bookkeeping. After leaving the Normal School, was Principal of the New Almaden School one year, and has taught in Los Angeles six years, most of this time as Grammar School Principal. Is now Principal of Amelia Street Grammar School, Los Angeles. |
Eliza B. Barnes
Native of Rhode Island. Educated in public schools of Rhode Island. Taught in public schools of Rhode Island, nine years; in public schools of San Francisco, six years; in Normal School, San José, from January, 1881, to resignation, May, 1884. Specialty, drawing. After a prolonged visit in the Eastern States, returned to California, where she is now teaching. |
Gloria F. Bennett
Native of New York. Educated in district schools of New York and Normal Schools at Brockport and at Geneseo, New York. Taught in district schools of New York, two and a half years; State Normal School at Geneseo, two years; High School in Michigan, one year; seven years in public schools of California; in Normal School since August, 1881. Specialty, English. |
Lizzie P. Sargent (Mrs.
Lizzie P. Wilson)
Native of California. Educated in public schools and Normal School. Graduated in 1875. Taught in public schools of California, six years; in Training Department of Normal School since October, 1881. Was critic teacher in Primary Class, five years; in Grammar Class, one year. Principal of Training Department since September, 1888. Married August 2, 1888. |
George R. Kleeberger
Native of Wisconsin. Educated in public schools of Wisconsin, State Normal School, Platteville, Wisconsin, Yale College, Connecticut. Taught in public schools of Wisconsin as Principal, four years; Connecticut, two years. Teacher of science in Normal School, Whitewater, Wisconsin, three years. Taught in public schools of California as Principal, three and a half years; in Normal School, San José, from February, 1882, to present time. Specialties, chemistry and geology. Married April 19, 1879. Three children, one living. |
Mary P. Adams
Native of Wisconsin. Educated in public schools and San José Normal School, from which she graduated May, 1879. Taught one year in public schools; as assistant in Training Department, August, 1882, to March, 1884; as teacher of music and critic teacher in Intermediate Class of Training Department from August, 1887, to present time. |
Isabella G. Oakley
Graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute, New York. Taught over twenty years, principally in private institutions. Taught in Normal Department, spring term, 1883. Afterwards taught one year in Los Angeles Normal School. When last heard from was teaching in Santa Barbara. |
Jessica B. Thompson (Mrs.
A.H. Washburn)
Native of Illinois. Educated in public schools of Illinois, San José Normal School, and University of Michigan. Taught in Normal School from August, 1883, to December, 1889. Specialties, literature and language. Married January 22, 1889. Not teaching. |
A.H. Randall
Native of Maine. Educated in Maine Wesleyan College and Maine Normal Schools. Principal of Stockton High School, California, from 1867 to 1883. Teacher in Normal School from January, 1884, to present time. Specialties, physics and geometry. Married February, 1869, to Miss Fannie H. Moore. |
Jennie M. Hammond
Graduate of Normal School, 1878. Taught in public schools, six years; assistant and critic teacher in Intermediate Class of Training Department from February, 1884, to May, 1887. Address, San José. |
Fannie M. Estabrook
Native of Illinois. Educated in Illinois State Normal School and National School of Elocution at Philidelphia, and has taught elocution twelve years. Taught reading and elocution in San José Normal School from August, 1884, to present time. |
Gerhard Schoof
Native of Hanover, Germany. Graduate of Gymnasium of Clausthal and Military Academy of Hanover. Taught in the San Francisco public schools from March, 1876, to August, 1884; in Normal School from August, 1884, to present time. Specialty, drawing. Was Principal of the San José Evening Schools, two terms. Married November 28, 1877. Three children. |
Myrtle C. Hudson
Native of Ohio. Educated in public schools, San José Normal School (class of '78), and University of Michigan (class of '85). Taught in public schools of California six and a half years; in Normal Schools from January, 1886, to June, 1889. Specialties, composition and history. |
Mamey Murray
Native of California. Educated in public schools and in State Normal School, San José, from which she graduated December, 1884. Taught in public school three years; as assistant in Junior Classes of Normal School, January to June, 1887. Has spent most of time since in sutdying and teaching music. Address, Auburn. |
Kate Cozzens
Native of California. Educated in public schools and Normal School. Graduated in 1878. Taught in schools of Santa Clara County nine years. Teacher of Model Class, Training Department, since August, 1887. |
Laura Bethell
Native of Indiana. Educated in public schools of Indiana, at convent, and in California State Normal School. Graduated December, 1887. Taught language and mathematics in Normal School since January, 1888. |
R.S. Holway
Native of Iowa. Educated in public schools of Iowa. Taught in Iowa five years; in public schools of California as Principal, seven years; in Normal School since January, 1888. Specialties, mathematics and physics. Married in 1883. |
Margaret E. Schallenberger
Native of California. Educated in public schools and State Normal School, San José, where she graduated in 1880. Taught in San José public schools five years; in Normal Department, one term; critic teacher in Primary Class of Training Department since January, 1888. Has given special attention to clay modeling. |
Volney Rattan
Native of Wisconsin. Educated in public schools and State University of Wisconsin. Taught in public schools of Wisconsin, two years; country schools in California, five years; San José Institute, two years; Oakland Military Academy, three years; Principal of Santa Cruz schools, one and a half years; teacher of natural science in Girls' High School, San Franicsco, thirteen years; teacher in Normal School since January, 1889. Specialties, botany and geography. Married September, 1872. Two children. |
Nettie C. Daniels
Native of Michigan. Graduate of University of Michigan. Taught two years in State Normal School at Indiana, Pennsylvania. Teacher in Normal School, San José, since January, 1889. Specialty, language. |
Nannie C. Gilday
Native of Missouri. Educated in public schools and academy in Missouri. Taught one year in private school; twelve years in public schools of Kansas City; assistant critic teacher in Training Department, Normal School, since Febraury, 1889. Specialties, music, drawing, and reading. |
Mdlle. Parot
Calisthenics--1863-64. |
Hubert Burges
Drawing--1863, 1864, 1869. |
W. Elliot
Music--1863 and 1864. |
C.J. Robinson
Calisthenics--1864. |
F.K. Mitchell
Music--1864. |
E. Knowlton
Calistenics and elocution--1864, 1869. |
Dr. Crossette
Music, 1869. |
Miss Hannah Millard
Drawing--1871-72. |
Olive Parker
Music--1871-72. |
Z.M. Parvin
Music--1876 to May, 1878. |
Madame M.A. Hamm
Music--1878-79. |
Miss M.D. McChain
Reading--1877-78, 1878-79. |
Mrs. M.F. Gunning
Drawing--1877-78. |
Professor Drew
Penmanship--1877-78. |
J.H. Elwood
Music--1875 and 1880 to present time. |
Mrs. A.E. Bush
Curator of Museum--1878 to present time. |