The First Woman in our Family

This was Florence Sanford, who immigrated from Nova Scotia to Boston, and married into the Fisher family.

These people were very upper-class, and they had also had money. They ran a Business College, that taught their students, upper class social skills - and also business skills (how to use a typewriter, and  take dictation). She must have been quite a gal, to be accepted into their clan - where she fit in naturally.

She sent for her brother, Albert. back in Nova Scotia. He learned shorthand in Boston, and then taught shorthand at the College. This was our grandfather Sanford, who married our Grandmother (Fairclough). They bought a fine new house in Somerset, a suburb of Boston. Where our mother, Mildred, was born.