Millicent Kittredge Blake

She is a descendant on the maternal side, of Cotton Mather, and of those physicians who bear the name of Kittredge.

[2] She married George Mansfield Blake, mayor of Oakland, and business partner of her brother, Francis Kittredge Shattuck.

After a successful management of private schools in her native State, she came to Oakland in 1852, and as soon as its growth warranted the venture, her seminary for young ladies was opened.

Although discouraged by friends, who considered success impossible in so new a country, Blake kept steadily on, and eventually succeeded in establishing her school.

[5] Her husband gave to the state the first ten acres which formed part of the campus of the university.