{"url": "https://zh.localwiki.org/api/v4/pages_history/1383987/", "name": "Snell Seminary", "slug": "snell seminary", "content": "
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\n\n\tSnell Seminary was founded by Mary E. Snell in the 1870s as a school for young women. Husted's directory of 1892 list the seminary's address as 568 - 12th Street in Oakland, with Richard B Snell\u00a0and Miss Mary E Snell serving as the principals. 3
\n\n\tThe seminary was considered one of the best known and most fashionable schools on the Pacific Coast. 2
\n\n\tOn July 31, 1896, the San Francisco Call has an advertisement for the Snell Seminary, a \"Boarding and Day School for Girls; pupils prepared for college and university; next term opens MONDAY, August 3, 1896. Mary E. Snell, Principal.\" 5\u00a0 The address of the seminary is listed as 1213 Madison Street, Oakland.\u00a0\u00a0
\n\n\tThe sisters of Joseph R. Knowland, Lucy Knowland (1870 - 1926) and Sadie Knowland (1864 - 1905), attended Snell Seminary sometime in the 1880's and/or 1890's.
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\n\n\tIn 1880 Mary Snell's sister Margaret Snell joined her in reorganizing the school. 1\u00a0Margaret A. Snell left Snell Seminary and went to Boston in 1883 to attend medical school.\u00a0 She returned in 1886 to establish a medical practice. 1,4 Their sister Sarah served as a house mother. 4
\n\n\tThe May 14, 1908 obituary of Mary E. Snell states that in 1878 she established the Snell Seminary on 12th Street in Oakland, until ill health caused her to close the school in 1897. 2
\n\n\tMary Snell reopened the school with her sister Mrs. Edna Snell Poulson on Channing Way in Berkeley in 1901. 2
\n\n\tSnell Seminary in Berkeley ceased operation after the death of Edna Snell Poulson on January 28, 1912. 4\u00a0Also, in 1912 the former Snell Seminary site in Oakland was the current location of the Orpheum Theater on 12th Street, 4 \"then known as Central Avenue.\" 6
\n\n\tOn May 4, 1950, the Oakland Tribune announced that the Alumni Association of the old Snell Seminary, founded in Oakland in 1878, will hold its annual May luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at The Virginian Restaurant, 60 Grand Avenue. 6
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