{"id":767,"date":"2015-06-01T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/?p=767"},"modified":"2015-06-03T06:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:39:44","slug":"portrait-of-georgia-sweney-1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/heritage\/2015\/06\/01\/portrait-of-georgia-sweney-1872\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of Georgia Sweney (1872)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cHastings Mill School\u2019s first teacher was the daughter of the master mechanic of the mill. She had come to British Columbia from New York when she was an infant and had been educated in the Girl\u2019s Seminary, Victoria, returning to Hastings Mill to assume her teaching duties. That she was young and pretty and that she was not long to remain in the teaching profession may be inferred from the fact that various swains competed with one another for the privilege of helping her with the milking, a domestic duty familiar to many of Vancouver\u2019s pioneers. Miss Sweney subsequently visited in California where, after \u201clove at first sight\u201d, she married John Franklin Cummings, prosperous rancher of Santa Paula, California.\u00a0 Mrs. Cummings died September 04, 1940, leaving six children of a family of eight, six grandchildren, and one great grandchild.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Excerpt from \u2018The First Fifty Years, Vancouver High Schools, 1890 \u2013 1940\u2019, pages 18 \u2013 19.)<\/p>\n

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