Olivia Dudley Bucknam

Olivia D. Dudley was born in Bryant Pond, Maine, on November 16, 1874, the daughter of Ansel Dudley and Josephine E. Childs.

She was active in musical affairs of the community. She was first vice-president of the California Federation of Music Clubs and Cadman Creative Club. She was president and honorary president of the Opera Reading Club, Hollywood. She was a member of the Executive Board of the Woman's Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Woman's Committee of the Los Angeles Grand Opera Association and the Summer Concert Committee of the Hollywood Bowl Association.

She was a member of the Woman's Club, Hollywood, Wa Wan Club, Hollywood chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, Gables Beach Club.

She moved to Hollywood, California, in 1914 and lived at 1344 Gardner St. (later 1327 N. Gardner St.), Hollywood, California.

On February 10, 1903, she married Dr. Ralph Waldo Emerson Bucknam, a practicing physician in Hollywood since 1914. He was one of the founders of Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and a member of its staff from the beginning. He was born in Lewiston, Maine, and obtained his education in Bowdoin Medical College, the Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic and in Vienna and Berlin hospitals. He belonged to county, state and national medical organizations and also to the World Medical Association, the Portland, Maine, Medical Club and the Opera Reading Club of Hollywood. In World War I he was the chief examining physician for the Los Angeles district. From 1898 to 1901 he was acting assistant surgeon of the U.S. Marina Hospital Service.

She died on November 15, 1966, in Los Angeles, California.