The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic-UC Student Dead

From: Oakland Tribune, 19 October 1918, Page 12, Column 8

U. C. STUDENT IS DEAD OF INFLUENZA

Miss Eugenia Thayer, a junior at the University of California and said to be an heiress to a large fortune, died at the Hotel Claremont in this city yesterday afternoon, a victim of Spanish influenza. The young woman had been ill but three days. The body has been sent to Salem, Ore., former home of Miss Thayer, for interment. She was a daughter of Claude Thayer, retired capitalist of San Francisco, and Tillamook, Ore. Her grandfather was at one time governor of Oregon.