San Francisco-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Leary, Miss Dorothy Evelyn 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages 112 - 113
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     MISS DOROTHY EVELYN LEARY has made her influence definitely manifest in 
connection with material development service in San Francisco, where she is a 
prominent and popular figure in representative social and cultural circles and 
in the activities of the First Congregational Church, of which she is an 
earnest member.

     Miss Leary was born in the City of Seattle, Washington, but has been a 
resident of California since she was a girl of eight years. She is a daughter 
of Michael P. and Marian Louise (Forrest) Leary, the former of whom was born 
in the State of Michigan and the latter in San Francisco, as a representative 
of one of the sterling pioneer families of California. Michael P. Leary was 
long and successfully engaged in the retail drug business, of which he was an 
exponent first in Michigan and later on the Pacific Coast. Of the three 
children the youngest is Miss Virginia, who was born in Seattle but reared and 
educated in San Francisco, she being a talented artist and being prominent in 
art circles in San Francisco; Dorothy E., of this review, is the oldest in 
order of birth; and Marian Grace died at the age of twenty-two years.

     Miss Dorothy E. Leary was eight years of age at the time of the family 
removal from Seattle to California, and during the ensuing four years the home 
was maintained in Marin County, whence removal was then made to San Francisco. 
Her father was owner of a well ordered drug store in Seattle. In this city 
Miss Leary was graduated in the Frank McCoppin School, and thereafter she took 
a commercial course and received instruction in singing under the effective 
preceptorship of Harold Dana and dramatic art under Talma L. Wilbur. Both she 
and her mother are prominent and popular factors in the affairs of various 
representative women's clubs of San Francisco, her mother being prominent in 
the affairs of the Civic Center and the San Francisco Music Association. Miss 
Leary is a zealous worker in the First Congregational Church and has been 
since 1927 the secretary of its Woman's Association. In 1926 she was president 
of the Young People's Association of the First Congregational Church. She has 
membership in the Builders Club and the Western Women's Club, is chairman of 
the motion picture division of the city and county Federation of Women's 
Clubs, has been since 1928 the treasurer of the Progressive Business Girls 
Club, and hers is a lively interest in all that concerns the material, social 
and cultural welfare of her home city.

     It should be noted that Harriet Matilda Goldsmith, maternal grandmother 
of Miss Leary, was born and reared in Salem, Massachusetts, and became a 
resident of California in 1849, the year that marked the historic discovery of 
gold in this state. Another representative of the Goldsmith family who came to 
California in 1849 was Oliver Goldsmith, who crossed the plains as one of the 
California argonauts of that memorable year, he having been a great-great 
uncle of Miss Leary of this review.

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