Photo: Jenny Barry with University of California, Berkeley Classmates, circa 1880. Posted on Website January 2, 2005
Years ago, a copy of this photo was sent to Frederick V. Klee in
Denmark by his sister Caroline Milicent Klee Bang (Who was my Aunt Cara). Jane (Jenny) Barry was their
mother and Milicent Shinn, who appears on the photo, was a close friend of
Jenny's. Caroline's middle name, Milicent, reflects this close friendship.
Milicent also played a major role in helping Jenny's orphaned children after
Waldemar and Jenny died. Milicent corresponded with Waldemar's sister Elise
Klee Bang, who lived in Denmark. Copies of the correspondence can be found on
this Website under Letters to and from Denmark. Elise and her husband, Bernhard Lauritz Bang ,
took in Caroline and Frederick, while Waldemar's brother, Doctor Frederick Emil
Klee and his wife, Gudrun took in Bertel, who was the youngest child.
Milicent Shinn, (whose poems appeared with Jenny's, in College Verses (See the
discussion below the photo) earned her PhD from U Cal Berkeley in 1898 after
publishing a book about child development that earned earned considerable fame
for her. Another poet, Edmund Sanford, who is next to Milicent in the photo ,
earned a PhD in psychology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1888
after graduating from UC Berkeley. He went on to become one of the major early leaders of American
Psychology. There are many websites that discuss each of these poets who
became psychologists. .
Selim M. Franklin became an Attorney and legislator in Arizona and he is
regarded as the father of the University of Arizona , founded in 1885.
Allan Klee and his 13 year old daughter Simone made electronic copies of this
photo and others, and placed them on a website, www.waveplane.com/klee/foto/
which they sent to me. I linked it to my Klee Family website. Allan is a
grandson of Frederick V. Klee and he is Marianne Carol Klee's brother.
I am able to say who is in the photo, (please see the text below the photo.) because when Caroline Milicent Klee Bang
(Aunt Cara to most of us) sent this photo to her brother Frederick she included information identifying
the students in the photo. Marianne Carol Klee provided me with this information
when we saw each other in New York City in December 2004.
Aunt Cara probably didn't learn much of what became of her mother's classmates in later life, because that information might have been hard to come by before our new information age. Thanks to the modern info tech world that has developed in very recent years I have been able to find a lot of the information you see on this page-- largely with the help of software products produced in Silicon Valley, which is situated in the San Francisco Bay area, where Cara's parents met, married, had three children and died-- . Waldemar and Jenny's ranch- (Gravenstein Ranch) in Santa Clara, where Cara and her young brothers spent their early years, must now be in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Gerald D. Klee,
Also known as Gerry, D'Arcy or Dad, (depending upon whom I'm speaking to. I am a
grandson of Jenny Barry Klee and a nephew of Caroline and Frederick Valdemar. Bertel
Bernard Klee was my father.
JANE BARRY AND CLASSMATES,
This photograph was probably t
Rear; Left to right; Selim M. Franklin, Rhoda Tucker, J.C.
Shinn, Jane (Jenny) Barry, Carol Davis? Or Elly