Mabel W ThomasMabel Thomas was born in Grass Valley, California in 1878 and lived at the Sierra Buttes Mine for two years and in Sierra City, California until 1896 when she moved to Oakland. She graduated from San Jose Teachers College in 1897 and the University o California at Berkeley in 1901. She had a long career in the Oakland Public Library, retiring in 1948 as chief reference librarian Read More Read Less