Geraldine McGrady Jones collection, 1870-1947 (bulk 1900-1930)

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Geraldine McGrady Jones collection, 1870-1947 (bulk 1900-1930)

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The Geraldine McGrady Jones collection is a small 20th century family collection that documents ordinary family life in Los Gatos, California. This collection consists of typed and handwritten creative writing works by Geraldine McGrady Jones, family photographs, a collection of digitized photographs and an informal oral history interview with the two surviving daughters, Geraldine (Gerri) Peters and Betty Emrett. This collection is arranged into one series: Geraldine McGrady Jones collection, 1870 - 1947 (bulk 1900-1930)

.21 linear feet (1 box).

San Jose State University

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San Jose State University

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San JoseĢ State University. Library. Special Collections & Archives

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Organizational History In 1857 the San Francisco Board of Education established an evening school for current and prospective teachers in the city. The school became know as the Minns' Evening Normal School, named after the principal, Washington Minns. In 1862, the California State Legislature formally established Minns' school as the first California State Normal School. The school remained in San Francisco until the California State Legisla...

Jones family (Los Gatos, Calif.)

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Jones, Geraldine McGrady.

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McGrady Jones, Gerladine, 1892-1952.

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Geraldine McGrady Jones (1892-1952) was born in San Francisco and five years later moved with her family to Los Gatos. She attended the San Jose Normal School where she graduated in 1914, after which she worked as a school teacher at the Wright's Station School in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was there that she met her husband William 'Billy' Jones who worked as an engineer for the Union Pacific railroad. The couple lived in converted boxcars for the first several years of their marriage and eve...