Mary E. Jones Spear was born in Massachusetts on May 3, 1850. Mrs. Spear settled in Los Angeles in 1893. She died there on June 15, 1918.
Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book
"Artists in California, 1786-1940"city directory; death record
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