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Photograph shows a driveway lined with trees and plants leading to a house. Two pillars stand at the opening to the driveway and read, from left to right, "H. Ray Fry. Casa Bella." H. Ray Fry was an attorney in San Jose who was also active in the San Jose Chapter of the Freemasons. A biographical sketch provides the following information: "Residence, 52 South Whitney Street; office, Wilcox Block, San Jose. Born April 7, 1876 in Dewitt, California.... Junior member of the firm of Beasly & Fry since 1905." In 1913, Fry joined a D.T. Jenkins, to form the legal firm of Fry & Jenkins. From: "History of the Bench and Bar of California," edited by Joseph Clement Bates, p. 318, http://books.google.com/books?id=ax0LAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA318&ots=4O6m58lz_8&dq=%22h.%20ray%20fry%22&pg=PA318#v=onepage&q=%22h.%20ray%20fry%22&f=false (accessed 7/20/11). Additional material from "History of Santa Clara County," p. 879, http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028882581#page/n975/mode/1up (accessed 7/20/11). His sister graduated from the State Normal School and taught for a time in Monterey County. (see http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19031018.2.59&cl=CL2.1903.10&srpos=0&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-logical-20--1-----all---) Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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