Oakland Female Seminary

Oakland Female Seminary

Oakland Female Seminary (also Oakland Seminary for Young Ladies) was a private girls' school located in the U.S. state of California. Situated at 528 Eleventh Street in Oakland, it contained 57 rooms. Founded on November 8, 1858, by Millicent Kittredge Blake, it was the first girls' school established west of the Mississippi River. Carrie Stevens Walter was the valedictorian of the first graduating class.

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Attribution

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Tribune Publishing Company's Alameda County: The Eden of the Pacific : the Flower Garden of California : a History of Alameda County from Its Formation to the Present : Its Resources and Many Thriving Industries : Souvenir Showing Its Superior Advantages as a Residence Section and a Manufacturing Center : Citizens who Have Aided the March of Progress (1898)

Bibliography

• Anderson, Gene (7 December 2015). Legendary Locals of Oakland. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-5405-7.
• Calderwood, G. W.; Loofbourow, G. T. (1896). Oakland: "Athens of the Pacific" : Also Facts and Figures of Alameda County (Public domain ed.). G.T. Loofbourow.
• Tribune Publishing Company (1898). Alameda County: The Eden of the Pacific : the Flower Garden of California : a History of Alameda County from Its Formation to the Present : Its Resources and Many Thriving Industries : Souvenir Showing Its Superior Advantages as a Residence Section and a Manufacturing Center : Citizens who Have Aided the March of Progress (Public domain ed.). Tribune Publishing Company.
• University of the Pacific (1976). The Pacific Historian. University of the Pacific.
• Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. ISBN 9780722217139.

External links

• Media related to Oakland Female Seminary at Wikimedia Commons