Jessie June Trowbridge

The oldest Trowbridge sibling (except for James who died in infancy), she was born in June 1874.  In various censuses she reported that she was born in Utah, though we don't have any other record of the family spending time in Utah.

She was a photographer, and her pictures of the scenery of the Cal campus were published in the Cal yearbook when she was a sophomore (1).  She also took pictures of Alaska scenery and mining operations when the family lived in Alaska (2).

She graduated from Cal in 1898 with a B.S. in Natural Sciences, and married Robert Kelsey Haskell, also a 1898 Cal graduate with a B.S. in Civil Engineering (3).  They moved to Hawaii in 1900 and lived on the island of Kuwai.  They had two children, Eloise M., b. abt. 1899, and Robert Kelsey Jr., b. abt. 1901 (4).  Robert Sr. died March 15, 1904 (5).

By 1910, Jessie June was back in California, living in Glen Ellen with her new husband, George Cobb, a poultry farmer.  The two Haskell children lived with them (6).  There is also a record of a George Cobb with a wife named Jessie (but a different middle initial) living in Fresno at 1035 Ferris Ave (7).

Jessie died some time before 1937 (8).

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(6) 1910 Federal Census.
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(8) The Golden Book of California.