Fanny Thomas
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"Fanny Thomas," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/181.
- Position
- Kitchen Assistant
- Years in President's House
- circa 1829
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- Unclear from Context
- Presidency
- John Quincy Adams
- Biography
- Little is known about Fanny Thomas outside of her work at the White House during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. In February 1829, President Adams listed the members of his White House staff in his diary, including Fanny Thomas, whom Adams identified as a cook maid. She worked under cook Berney and alongside fellow cook maid Mary Baun.1 She appears in no other entries in Adams’s diary or White House records. As such, it is unknown when her work at the White House began or ended.
- John Quincy Adams Digital Diary, February 1829, https://www.primarysourcecoop.org/publications/jqa/document/jqadiaries-v36i-1829-02-p129--entry29?navmode=searchresults&doci=50
- Birthplace
- Unclear from context
- Unclear from context
- Related Workers
- Auguste BernayKitchen, Dining Room, Pantry, and Storeroom, circa 1828 – 1829
- John ThomasTransportation, circa 1829
- Mary BaunKitchen, Dining Room, Pantry, and Storeroom, circa 1829
- Berney
- Charlotte JenerKitchen, Dining Room, Pantry, and Storeroom, circa 1829