Named by Nathan and Gertrude Cory on a 1923 tract they co-owned. Nathan Thomas Cory (1861-1928) was born in Indiana and grew up in an itinerant farming family. As an adult, he resided in Aberdeen, WA and reportedly struck it semi-rich in the Nome Gold Rush. He and his first wife Laura tied the knot in early 1900; months later, she dumped him for a married man in Portland. Cory then made his way down to Oakland, where in 1902 he wed Jane Gertrude Shoemaker (1867-1926), a Reno native who had come to NorCal to be a schoolteacher. The couple had three children – the last born in 1909 – and Nathan made a name for himself as a house builder. The Corys relocated to L.A. by 1912 and lived in Florence-Graham until moving up to Genesee near Sunset four years later. Nathan constructed no fewer than eleven homes in the surrounding Spaulding Square neighborhood. The Corys’ youngest daughter Jean Cory Beall (1909-1978) would later become an accomplished artist.
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