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426:' hotel, where Jeanne and Hutchings' wife Elvira established a friendship that would last many years. When Jeanne discovered that Hutchings needed a millwright to run a sawmill (for lumber to build up tourist facilities), she connected Hutchings to Muir. (Muir, aside from his general mechanical aptitude, had specific experience as a millwright in Indiana.) While Muir worked for Hutchings over the next few years, Jeanne frequently suggested to friends that they seek out Muir as a personal guide/naturalist. Among those who took up this suggestion were
310:. In the course of years, it became noted for several things; first, its great variety of fruit and ornamental trees and plants-more than 200 in all-which Jeanne had obtained from nearly every part of the world; for the hospitality extended by its hosts to many eminent people, drawn to "Carmelita" by the personalities of the owners; and as well because of its beauty and interest. In a log cabin on these grounds, it is said that Helen Hunt Jackson, while visiting the Carrs, wrote part of
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was established, she was elected First Vice-President. In the same year, she served on the first board of directors of the
Pasadena Library and Village Improvement Society. Previously, in 1885, when a Citrus Fair was held in Pasadena, one of its objects being to raise funds to assist the public
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Muir, John; Carr, Jeanne C. Smith; Gisel, Bonnie Johanna (2001).
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dwelling on Pasadena's Kensington Street and tiled the roof with
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American correspondent, educator, landscape designer and botanist
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Jeanne C. Smith Carr died at the home of her brother-in-law in
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Bakken, Gordon Morris; Kindell, Alexandra (24 February 2006).
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library enterprise, Carr contributed much toward its success.
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