On 1 June 1860 she was 7 years old and born in Vermont. She lived with George Arms and his family in Greenfield, Massachusetts. ®446 On 1 June 1870 she was a 17 year old student born in Massachusetts who lived with her family in Greenfield, Massachusetts. ®571 On 1 June 1880 she was a single 27 year old teacher of the natural sciences who boarded in Cambridge, Massachusetts with 75 year old Samuel Slocomb and his 32 year old adopted daughter Mary Stone. ®5255 In 1889 she was unmarried and lived in Greenfield. She was George Sheldon’s second wife when they married in 1897 in Boston. ®5256 On 1 April 1930 Jenny A. Sheldon was a 77 year old widow who owned her own home worth $10,000 on Old Deerfield Street in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mary Buther, a 64 year old widowed maid born in Washington and Ella Blanchard, a 69 year old single maid born in Massachusetts lived with her. ®5262
“A native of Bellows Falls, Vermont, Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (1852-1938) grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where her father owned a hardware store. After graduating from high school she went to Boston where she became associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Woman's Laboratory, and began teaching science at several Boston schools. A tireless researcher, she wrote articles on geology, botany, and zoology, and joined the museum staff of the Boston Society of Natural History. After her marriage to George Sheldon in 1897, she divided her time between Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Boston. She and her husband catalogued many of the collections in Deerfield's Memorial Hall Museum, where Mrs. Sheldon served as curator from 1913 until her death.”