Jeanette Carolyn Heintzen Lawrence (May 3, 1869 – July 6, 1960) was an American writer and lecturer.
Biography edit
Jeanette Carolyn Heintzen was born on May 3, 1869[1] in Sierra County, California, the daughter of Charles Heintzen, Jr and Sarah V. Busch.[2] Her father was the first banker north of Sacramento in the 1850s.[3] From both her father's and her mother's sides she was descended from California pioneers: Charles Heintzen, Sr. drove the stagecoach for Wells Fargo, sometimes hiding the gold from the North Yuba River mines in butter churns on their way to San Francisco, via Marysville; August Busch partnered with Herringlake in establishing the Wells Fargo building in Sierra City.[4][better source needed]
She moved to Sacramento in 1910 and lived at 918 Mission Way, Sacramento, California. She first married Carey and later married Richard Kay Lawrence (1881–1953) and had two children: Charles Josef Carey (from the first husband) and Richard Jay Lawrence (1907–1994) (from the second husband).[2]
She was a writer and speaker; she was the organizer, and for two years president of the Sacramento Branch of the League of American Penwomen; she was president of the P.E.O. Sisterhood; she was president of the Tuesday Club; she was State Chairman of Literature of the California Federation of Women's Clubs.[2]
She had poems published in newspapers and magazines; a poem to California's Sacred Sons decorated by artist Louise Tessin, was presented to Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and then hung in the Memorial Hall of the building.[2]
She was the author of: My Service Flag, The Unknown Soldier, American, Wings of Triumph, The American Comet, Pine Songs of the Sierras and other poems.[2]
She was very active in women's club work, and was well-known dramatic reader and lecturer.[2]
She was a member of: Penwomen, California, Writers Club, Woman's Forum, Tuesday Club, Daughters of the Nile, Order of the Eastern Star, L. W. Charity Club, American War Mothers.[2]
Jeanette Lawrence died on July 6, 1960, and is buried at East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento.
References edit
- ^ "Jeanette Lawrence in the 1940 Census". 1940 Census. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. p. 61. Retrieved 27 March 2023 – via Internet Archive.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Barry, Tom (8 March 2010) [Originally published in the Hewgag Monitor in October 1987]. "The Naming of a Chapter of ECV". E Clampus Vitus Chapter 10 Home Page. Archived from the original on 29 January 2018 – via submission by user XNGH Jason Thorn.
- ^ Chris Carey-Flores (30 July 2014). "Comment on "The Stagecoach Comes to California"". California's Olden Golden Days. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018.
