Grace Perego in Six Scenes
Meet SF’s First-Wave Feminist Housing Mogul
15 min readJun 11, 2019
One.
Helen Grace Greenwood Yager stands up, cradling her three-month-old son Jackson. She’s 28, her patrician features brushed with the haze of new parenthood. She raises her right hand and swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help her god. It’s 1913.