Author talk:Isabella G. Oakley

Obituary in "San Francisco Call", Volume 112, Number 61, 31 July 1912. CALIFORNIA TEACHER IS BURIED IN EAST: Funeral Services Held for Miss Oakley in Great Neck, L. I. [Special Dispaich to The Call] NEW YORK. July 30.—Isabella G. Oakley, an educator well known in New York and in California, who died on Saturday in Jamaica Plain, Mass., was burled today at Great Neck. L. I. Miss Oakley was born at Huntlngton, L. I. November 6, 1835. She was one of the Packer Institute's earliest alumni. She began her work in Brooklyn and went later to California, where for 16 years she conducted a large private school for girls. In 1890 Miss Oakley came east and continued her work of teaching.