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Subject: [CAKERN] SIEMON Family -- Alfred and Lida
Date: 4 Sep 2001 23:02:02 -0600

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Surnames: Siemon, Sieman, Porter, Bennett
Classification: Biography

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>From "Who's Who in Kern County, 1939" (pub. by Wilson & Peterson, 1940)

SIEMON, Alfred. Parents, William and Josephine (Porter) Sieman [sic]. Born, Kilbourn, Ia., Jan. 2, 1881. Married, Inez Bennett, July 14, 1908. Children: Josephine McCann, Bennett, Glenn, Paul. Educated, Whittier College, Law Department, University of Southern California. Occupation: Attorney. He was a member of the Bakersfield City Council during 1934-37, and is at present a member of the Board of Governors, California State Bar Association and a member of the Kern County Council, Boy Scouts of America. Address: Business, Haberfelde Building, 'phone 882; residence, 2000 Drocena street, Bakersfield, Calif.

SIEMON, Lida. Parents, William and Josephine (Porter) Siemon. Born, Kilbourne, Ia. Educated, Public schools of Kilbourne, Keosauqua High School, Ia.; Kidder Institute, Kidder, Mo.; Warrensburg State College, Mo.; graduate of Santa Barbara State College, 1912, A.B.; advanced work at the University of California, Berkeley; University of California at Los Angeles, Oregon State College. Occupation: Head of the Department of Home Economics, Kern County Union High School. She came to Kern County in 1912 in which year she became teacher of Home Economics at the Kern County Union High School and established and became Head of the Home Economics Department at that school in 1913, a position she has held ever since. When she joined the High School she was the only teacher of Home Economics in the field. Since 1938 she has been State Editor of the California Home Economics Assocation's publication. She is a member and past President of the California State Home Economics Association an!
d she is Past Matron of the Bakersfield Chapter, Order of Amaranth, 1922-23. Address: Business, Kern County Union High School, 'phone 3633; residence, 1920 King street, Bakersfield, Calif.

The above information would have been supplied the subjects themselves in 1939 or 1940. I am not related to the Siemon family and have no additional information. If this helps anyone doing Siemon research, please "pay it forward" by helping another researcher.

Colleen Kayter

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