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An Interview with Marion Gladding: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock

Marion Andrea Andreasen Gladding was born in Virginia City in 1910. She attended the First Ward and Fourth Ward schools in Virginia City and studied teaching at the University of Nevada. For several years she taught at a small country school near Fallon, but in 1933 she returned to Virginia City and began working in the post office, a job she held until 1969 when she retired. In her oral history, Marion Gladding recounts the history of the prominent Berry family, various buildings in the Flowery district. Mrs. Gladding also tells of some of her father's early experiences in Nevada as an immigrant, her childhood experiences growing up on the Comstock, her time teaching in Fallon, and her work in the post office in Virginia City.

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