Saturday, August 9, 1919

An ideal day. Cool in A.M. Cut wood, trimmed trees etc. Clara Lavery, Ruth Gunderson and Shilling here etc. Up to ice cream social at hall. Took young folks to city. Et 4 dishes cream. To bed 11 P.M.

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You don't see the word et very much anymore.

Clara Lavery is probably the young woman who lived with her parents, Bernard and Elizabeth, at 245 Park Place in Schenectady. She was Stanford's age and was in 1920 attending school, probably college since in 1940 she shows as having a four-year degree. Later she becomes a high school teacher and in 1930 is shown living with her parents in Scotia.  In 1940 she is still unmarried, still teaching, still living at 2 Washington Road in Scotia with her mother, now a widow, and her sister, an office worker for a power and light company.

Below, on the left is a recent picture of the house in Schenectady where Clara Lavery lived in 1920 when her father was an inspector for an insurance business. On the right is a recent picture of their house on Washington Road, where they lived in 1930. It's a much nicer neighborhood; there's even a park to the right of the house. By 1930 Mr. Lavery was a general manager of an insurance company, so that might explain their having moved to the suburbs.



245 Park Place, Schenectady, NY

2 Washington Rd, Scotia