King County WA Archives Biographies.....Leary, Miss Dorothy Evelyn ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/wafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com October 31, 2010, 8:50 pm 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/king/bios/leary189gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb