Ella Giles Ruddy (ed.) The Mother of Clubs Los Angeles: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1906, 191 pp.
Caroline M. Seymour Severance
Friday morning club
[p. 182] Chapter IX
"El Nido" her Adams St. home where guest books etc., were kept in the her last years. In 1905, for 30 years a gathering place for leaders of progressive thought.
Mrs. Severance left for California in 1875. Gifts from notables including Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont.
[p. 188] In 1889, the 49th wedding anniversary, the records show many greetings and congrats from among others Senator Jones and his family and the Fremonts.