TImelines
Coming to California 1856
Three or Four family members? All at once? There are many opinions. Which ones hold water? Opinions? or official documents?
Milicent Shinn's Timeline
Milicent Shinn's long life was filled with many significant milestones for her and for California. She was among the first women accepted to the University of California. She was the editor of the Overland Monthly at age 26. She was involved in the creation of the California branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae . She was the first woman to earn a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She published the Biography of a Baby. Then what? She was not done yet! We are filling out her timeline. It will grow and change over time. Check back!
1856 James and Lucy Shinn moved to the Washington Township with 4-year-old Charles Howard Shinn and baby Annie Holbrook Shinn. They lived in Sim's cottage, previously owned by William Simm and allegedly made from wood from abandoned Gold Rush ships.
1858 Milicent Washburn Shinn was born
1869 The last portion of the Transcontinental Railroad was completed from Sacramento to Oakland
~1873 Shinn's Nurseries begun
1874 Milicent graduated from Oakland High School. Anna Head and Clara Hawley (Patterson) were in the same class.
1874 Milicent entered the Freshman class at the University of California with her sister, Annie
1876 The Big House was finished
1878 Annie passed at age 21
1880 Milicent graduated from UC Berkeley. She considered herself in the Class of 1879
1880 Contributed poem “In a New England Graveyard” to The Californian
1882 The Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA) was founded on the East Coast - the Precurser of American Association of University Women (AAUW) (History
1882 Milicent became assistant editor to The Californian to Warren Cheney.
1882 The Californian rebranded as the Overland Monthly
1883 Milicent became the editor of the Overland Monthly (until 1894)
188x Mother / Baby studies with the ACA (AAUW predecessor)
1885 Pacific Association of Collegiate Alumnae was the third branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Milicent hosted the meetings at the Overland Monthly offices.
1886 Milicent elected onto the Executive Committee of the Pacific branch of ACA.
1887 Shinn's Nurseries discontinued in favor of fruit ranching
1890 Niece Ruth Wetmore Shinn born, daughter of Charles and Julia
1890 started recording observations of Ruth
1893 "The First Two Years of the Child" were presented at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893
1894 Presented paper The Baby’s mind. A study for college women to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
1894 Resigned as editor of the Overland Monthly.
1896 Father James died
1898 PhD from the University of California, first woman to receive a PhD from the University of California.
1898 Overland Monthly article July 1898, Shinn reflected on her years as editor, 1883–1894
1900 Biography of a Baby published
1906 Joseph Clark Shinn, Jr. born, son of Milicent's younger brother, Joseph, and Florence
1906 Milicent embarked on a six-year project of studying Joseph, Jr.
1907 Published The Development of the Senses in the First Three Years of Childhood.
1909 Ruth Shinn entered the University of California, Berkeley
1910 Brother Allen Mayhew Shinn born
1912? Sister Lucy Emily Shinn born
1912 Milicent started notes on Lucy Emily for at least two years
1915 Mother Lucy died
1915 the ACA held a meeting in San Francisco during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
1917 Milicent's house was finished; designed by architect Lilian Bridgman
Milicent's history will be filled in here. She was active in many organizations.
1932 Milicent contacted publisher Houghton Mifflin to propose publication of a draft manuscript on the Development of Memory During the First Three Years [Bancroft library] location unknown.
1940 Milicent passed away
References (see also wikipedia for Milicent Shinn)
1931 The History of the American Association of University Women 1881-1931; Marion Talbont M.A. , LL.D, and Lois Kimball Mathews Rosenberry Ph.D, Litt. D.
1968 Grant Skelley thesis The Overland Monthly under Milicent Washburn Shinn, 1883-1894: A Study in Regional Publishing
1987 Furumoto and Scarborough, Untold Lives: the first generation of American women psychologists. Milicent's history is in a chapter called the "Family Claim." It is nice that she was included, but she was used as someone who was stymied by her families needs for her. The chapter does not take into account Milicent's later work with her mother-baby ACA network, her later publications, or her work with other organizations.
2012 Christine Von Oertzen, Science, Gender, and Internationalism; Women’s Academic Networks, 1917-1955; Chapter 2 is about "Global War, Global Citizens, Global; Mission: The Anglo-American Project of an International Federation of University Women" This relates to the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA), the AAUW's predecessor
2013 Christine Von Oertzen, Science in the Cradle: Milicent Shinn and Her Home-Based Network of Baby Observers, 1890–1910; Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany
2017 Elissa Rodkey (Crandall University, Canada) “Far More Than a Dutiful Daughter: Milicent Shinn’s Child Study and Education Advocacy After 1898”
