Background
Beatrice Edna Spring Borchardt (1901-1975) was the daughter of Edward Spring, and the
granddaughter of New York merchant Marcus Spring (1810-1874) and his wife, reformer and
educator, Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911); the couple established a Utopian retreat in
Eagleswood, New Jersey in the mid 19th century. Rebecca Buffam Spring moved to Los Angeles,
California, in the 1890s, to live with her daughter Jeanie Spring Mackaye Peet and their
home became a gathering place for artists, writers, and social reformers in the late 19th
century. Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet, had a brief marriage to James Steele MacKaye
(1842-1894) which ended in divorce, then, in 1873, she married San Francisco newspaper
editor Tremenheere Lanyon Johns (1839-1875), and finally, in 1881, Dr. Gilead Peet who died
in 1887.
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