Named c. 1888 for Selma Weid (1873-1961), daughter of early Hollywood settler Ivar Weid. One of five siblings born somewhere west of Los Angeles city limits, Selma and her family moved to the Cahuenga Valley (as it was called before the Wilcoxes dubbed it “Hollywood“) around 1876. In 1893, Selma relocated to her parents’ homeland of Denmark, where she was wed to Gustav Adolph Frederik Clauson-Kaas, a Danish soldier. They had two children – Knud (1894-1977), who would become a renowned fighter pilot, and Alixandria (1897-1997) – but the marriage didn’t last. Neither did the next two: Returning to Los Angeles, Selma married prominent court clerk Andrew W. “Andy” Francisco Jr. in 1901, then divorced him in 1906 on the grounds of “incompatibility of temper”. Her third and final marriage was in November 1909 to dentist Samuel W. Taliaferro; she secured her divorce from him almost exactly three years later. For most of the rest of her life, she worked as a department store saleswoman.
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