445 Fremont St

445 Fremont St

The snow in this photo erases some of the clues to the date, but we know who lived in the house in 1914, the earliest City Directory in the library collection. Dexter and Mable Herrington moved there sometime between the 1900 US Census, when they lived in Hebron, and the 1910 US Census. The listing includes their four children, sister-in-law Shirley, and their boarder Edward Joslyn. Both men were listed as a "mounter" at the Oliver Typewriter factory. Mable was included in a Society Page story in the Woodstock Sentinel, February 10, 1910, as the President of the "Mother's Circle." This organization met every two weeks in the City Council Chambers and was a social and educational club similar to the Seneca Ladies Literary Society. Before 1920, the family moved to Los Angeles where he was a gardener for a high school in San Pedro and she appears again in the society pages as an active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

1905~