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1900s - 1910s - Clara Hinderer Education and early work

From Clara's handwritten ledger

I grew up wanting to be a Red Cross<ref>wonder how she felt about SF</ref> nurse. But it was foiled by lack of funds. Then a peddler sold me a Dress Maker course in my parents' absence. I learned much about drafting patterns and sewing. To get a diploma one had to make a 3 piece wool suit. I passed, but because I was extremely bashful when it came to talking to people I could not avail myself a corner in a Millinery shop to purse my trade.

By this time (while I was boarding with the Millers at Zumbrota, MN. Martin Miller<ref>Miller I didn't find any specific information on Martin Miller. The Hinderer contact was probably made when Paul Hinderer was pastor in Goodhue, MN or Zumbrota, MN</ref>, who was taking a business course at Red Wing, MN, persuaded me to take a summer business course at $60, and work for my room and board. I passed all requirements to become a good office assistant. When a man from the Great Western Ry Co wanted someone to work for experience and a few pennies besides I was recommended for the job. It proved to be what I needed to become a valuable office assistant. <ref> Clara would serve in the Superintendent's office of the New Ulm, MN Public school, a newspaper in NE, as Dorm Matron at DMLC, at her brother Winfred Hinderer’s law firm in Seattle, WA, and the Bon Marche in Seattle.</ref>

I worked for 6 months. Then I went to Watertown, SD near where my parents had moved in the meantime and worked there <ref>International Harvestor</ref> for 10 years, 1 year of which I obtained a leave of absence to help out in our Indian Mission school at Globe, AZ.

source:Clara Hinderer Baur collection.

'Note: Clara worked with the S.A. Morawetz & Co. to find office work. <references/>