Sperry Flour at the 1894 Midwinter Fair
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by Barbara Webster
My grandmother, Elizabeth Lewis Wallace was given four of the ad cards from the 1894 Midwinter Exposition which she, at the age of 16 treasured and kept in perfect shape. The cards were an advertisement for Sperry Flour and featured the buildings at the Expo.
An interesting sideline to this is that in 1907, her uncle, Charles Augustus Bodwell Jr. married Beda Sperry whose father, Austin Sperry established the Sperry Flour Mills in Stockton in 1852.
John Bacon Lewis, the father of Elizabeth arrived in SF 31 Aug 1949 and remained there til 1857 before moving to Petaluma.