Jane Humphreys
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"Jane Humphreys," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/449.
- Position
- Unclear From Context Unclear from Context
- Years in President's House
- circa 1877
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- Black or African American
- Presidency
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Biography
- Jane Humphreys began working as a domestic servant at the White House in the first few weeks of President Rutherford B. Hayes’s administration in 1877. (1) Information about her life is limited at this time, but she appears in a photograph of Hayes’s domestic staff at the White House taken that year. (2)
- (1) Julie Mayle, Curator of Manuscripts, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, e-mail message to the White House Historical Association, August 17, 2023.
(2) “The Working White House: Staff, 1877,” White House Historical Association, https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/the-working-white-house-staff-1877. - Birthplace
- Unclear From Context