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Train Traveling | HILDA M GRAY

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Train Traveling HILDA M GRAY. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. More coming soon…. Train travel dominated public transportation for the lifetime of Hilda M Gray. She “rode the rails” setting out from Cambridge to reach Liverpool at the age of 6 on the first leg of her journey to immigrate to America. She traveled from Houston to Nashville several times over the course of her four year education, then north from Houston to Chicago. This page will explore train travels and railroads of the era. Dean is...

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Hilda Gray - Arcadia

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Hilda Gray - Arcadia. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray – Arcadia. Typical small poultry farm (circa 1930). In 1918 Hilda Gray purchased a poultry farm in Arcadia, California in the shadows of the Santa Anita Racetrack where she lived most the rest of her life. Back then the entire neighborhood of that part of Arcadia was mostly poultry farms. Her real estate specialty was selling poultry farms and in the 1940 census she described her occupation as poultry farmer. Hilda Gray – Arcadia.

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Donate HILDA M GRAY. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. We certainly love what we do but that does not pay the bills. Your donation is not tax deductible and does not go towards a non-profit organization. Donations received go towards paying the expense of research and website maintenance. Your help is very much appreciated. Put my Donation on the Recognition Wall. Do not show any information. Amount, User Details and Comments. User Details and Comments Only. Write your comment within 199 characters.

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Hilda Gray – Los Angeles | HILDA M GRAY

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Hilda Gray – Los Angeles HILDA M GRAY. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray – Los Angeles. Los Angeles downtown (circa 1900). After arriving in Los Angeles in the year 1903 Hilda Gray found room and board convenient to the central district and began working as stenographer for a law firm. By happenstance Hilda Gray found herself living and working in a city run by corrupt officials controlling contracts and jobs. To Desert Hot Springs. Hilda Gray – Los Angeles. Writer, Artist and Publisher.

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Hilda Gray - Desert Hot Springs

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Hilda Gray - Desert Hot Springs. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray – Desert Hot Springs. Homestead Land, Desert Hot Springs (circa 1910). Prior to 1908 desolate desert lands were just another easily forgotten part of the immense Colorado Desert stretching from the village of Palm Springs to Yuma, Arizona. At the time the entire desert region from Cabazon to Yuma Arizona was known as the Colorado Desert. Snowbirds enjoy the best of both worlds. Hilda Gray – Desert Hot Springs. Dean started ...

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Hilda Gray – New Orleans | HILDA M GRAY

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Hilda Gray – New Orleans HILDA M GRAY. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray – New Orleans. By the first of November of 1879, the family had packed all their personnel possessions not sold or given way joining Europeans seeking better lives across the Atlantic. They family got rid of their farm animals and said goodbye to friends, family and country gambling on a better life that the steam ship St. Louis promised to deliver. Immigration Ship (circa 1880). Hilda Gray – New Orleans. Dean is a Ma...

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Hilda Gray - Cambridge

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Hilda Gray - Cambridge. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray – Cambridge. Bright and thoughtful Hilda Gray was born in the shire of Cambridge, England on the morning of December 7, 1872. Hilda father leased and operated the Bird Bolt Hotel on St. Andrews Street which featured accommodations and a public house. Other family members operated businesses in town. Hilda Gray – Cambridge. Writer, Artist and Publisher. At Desert Vortex News. Dean started in the newspaper business at the age of nine ...

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Hilda Gray Timeline 1872-1953 | HILDA M GRAY

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Hilda Gray Timeline 1872-1953 HILDA M GRAY. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray Timeline 1872-1953. Oil fired steam engine of era. Immigrates from Liverpool via voyage ports of call in Carunna Spain and Havana, Cuba entering America at New Orleans. Louisiana and settling in Houston. Cattle ranching; Houston. Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; BA, LI; Nashville. Governess; Murchison Ranch, Sonora, Texas. Teacher; Kerrville, Texas. Teacher and Librarian; Galveston, Texas. For over 40 year...

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Hilda Gray – Vanderbilt | HILDA M GRAY

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Hilda Gray – Vanderbilt HILDA M GRAY. Desert Hot Springs Homestead Pioneer. Hilda Gray – Vanderbilt. Typical school room (circa 1900). Leaving Texas behind, Hilda Gray at the age of 17 accepted a scholarship to attend Peabody Teaching College at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated in 1894. Along the way she also learned shorthand and received training on the newest technology of the day, the mechanical typewriter. Hilda Gray – Vanderbilt. Writer, Artist and Publisher. For over 40 ...