Background
Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne was born in Sonora, California on May 30, 1884. As her father joined the Klondike Gold Rush, they moved to Circle City where her father built an opera house.
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Crystal Jenne
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University of California, Berkeley.
Career
After he found gold, they moved to Seattle, but they lost their money and returned to Alaska. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley where she majored in Music, she taught in Paso Robles, California. From 1907 to 1908, she taught in Douglas, Alaska.
She spent the next summer singing for miners in Skagway, Haines, Dawson, Fairbanks, Nome, et cetera
She then attended the Spencerian Commercial School in Cleveland, Ohio to study Business. She then taught in Skagway, Sitka, and the Mendenhall Valley.
She moved back to Juneau in 1914. Her husband died in 1938.
The next year, she published a volume of historical poetry.
Meanwhile she worked in church choirs, taught, and ran a flower shop. In 1934, she ran as a Democrat for the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives. She lost four races, and was elected in 1940, and reelected in 1942.
She died at the Sitka Pioneer Home on June 5, 1968.
Membership
She was a member of the Alaska Federation of Women"s Clubs, the Democratic Women"s Club, the Juneau Women"s Club, and the National Business and Professional Women"s Club.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Democratic party