| Born in New York state about 1826, Abby Oakes shares with
Mary Park Seavy Benton the attribution of being California's first
professional woman artist. According to her birth certificate, she was born in 1823 in Charleston,
Massachusetts. She was raised in that town. At age 19 in 1845, married William Harrison Oakes
who was from Boston and was a music engraver and printer of
newspapers. The couple had two sons, one who died in infancy in
1847. In 1856, she lef (showing 500 of 1984 characters). |
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