A minor Fortean who did Thayer a major kindness.
Jennie Selby was born in Iowa in 1869. (Her brother, Norman Selby, became the boxer Kid McCoy, who was sent to San Quentin for manslaughter in the 1920s.) She married—becoming Jennie Selby Thomas—had several kids, and the family moved its way West, a stop in Pueblo, Colorado, before ending up in the Los Angeles area. At some points, she lived in Ojai, home the Theosophical settlement Krotona. (The Barleys were some 100 miles north up the coast at about the same time, living near another Theosophical settlement, in Oceano.) Perhaps they met—because Thomas was interested in Theosophy. She recorded some of her beliefs in a 1930 article:
Jennie Selby was born in Iowa in 1869. (Her brother, Norman Selby, became the boxer Kid McCoy, who was sent to San Quentin for manslaughter in the 1920s.) She married—becoming Jennie Selby Thomas—had several kids, and the family moved its way West, a stop in Pueblo, Colorado, before ending up in the Los Angeles area. At some points, she lived in Ojai, home the Theosophical settlement Krotona. (The Barleys were some 100 miles north up the coast at about the same time, living near another Theosophical settlement, in Oceano.) Perhaps they met—because Thomas was interested in Theosophy. She recorded some of her beliefs in a 1930 article: