Sophie Marie Alstrom Mitchell was born in Karlshamn, Sweden on Oct. 18, 1858. At age two Sophie moved with her mother to San Francisco where her mother soon wed Swen Alstrom, proprietor of the Oriental Hotel. The family then moved to Napa County where Mr. Alstrom had purchased the White Sulphur Springs Resort in St Helena.
Sophie graduated from Napa Ladies' Seminary in 1875 and then continued there as an assistant art teacher. At that school she developed a painti (showing 500 of 1225 characters). |
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