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Mae Helene Bacon Boggs collection, 1929-1963.
MANUSCRIPTSMCII : Box 31 : Folder 19
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Title:

Mae Helene Bacon Boggs collection, 1929-1963
Boggs, Mae Helene Bacon

Abstract:

News clippings, correspondence, pamphlet.

Date:

1929 (issued)

Subject:

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Boggs, Mae Helene Bacon
Shasta (Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)

Note:

Mae Helene Bacon was born in Pike County, Missouri on February 16, 1863, and as a young girl witnessed the end of the race between the steamboats "Robert E. Lee" and "Natchez." In 1871 her widowed mother moved her family to Shasta, California, where Mae's uncle operated a stagecoach line. Active in Shasta preservation efforts all of her life, she eventually moved to San Francisco, married Angus Boggs, and became active in the Women's Suffrage Movement. Mae also led the efforts to establish San Francisco's Aquatic Park, was a founder of the Club Women's League, and was a long time member and resident of the Women's Athletic Club. She also wrote "My Playhouse Was a Concord Coach," privately printed in 1942 and relating via newspaper articles the history of California (particularly Shasta County) from 1822 to 1888. Mae died at the age of 100 in San Francisco in 1963.
Boggs, Mae Helene Bacon.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.

Type:

biography

Physical Description:

print
1 file folder; 14 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.