Overcast mild fall day. To college 7:45 to 12 M. 1:30 to 2:30 P.M. Candled eggs etc. To Glenville Corners at night to Chicken Supper. Dorothy Gallup along. Fine time. Rode around town out to Rotterdam etc. To bed 11:45 P.M.
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There was a Dorothy Gallup who lived at 12 Altamont Avenue in Rotterdam with her parents, Percy and Chastella and her brother Elbert. In 1920 Dorothy was 18 years old and working for a Garage as a Stenographer. She didn't finish high school (according to the 1940 census). Her father was a Hot Foreman for a Blacksmith. The foreman, according to The Blacksmith's Journal, a book published in 1920, was in charge of a forging operation in a factory.
In 1910, Dorothy's family lived in Glenville, where her father was a foreman at the Locomotive Works. She had a brother William at that time, but in 1920, there is no William. He would have been about 11 by then. In 1900, the Gallups had been married two years and had already lost one child. It would be sad if they then lost William later on.
In 1924, Dorothy married Earl Havens in Bennington, VT where she was living at the time. I don't know why she was living in Vermont, but by 1925 she and her husband were back in Schenectady, and by 1930 they had two daughters and were living in Niksayuna. Her husband was a car salesman. Maybe that's where she met Earl--he sold cars at the Garage where she worked. She was still living in the same place in 1940. Her husband died in 1950, but she lived to 1984, still residing in Schenectady.
I wonder if her daughters would like to know she was mentioned in Stanford's diary?
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