Virginia Chester

Biography

Virginia Evelyn Chester was born August 27, 1896 in San Francisco to Louis Chester and Kathleen (Kate) Judge. Her film debut was in "The Yaqui Girl" (1910), for Pathe Films. She was a leading lady with the Bison-101 Ranch Company and with Universal Pictures. Other film credits included "The Frenzy of Firewater" (1912), "A Shot In the Dark" (1912), Fat Bill's Wooing" (1912), "When Uncle Sam Was Young" (1912), "Trapper Bill, King of Scouts" (1912), "A Four-Footed Hero" (1912), "Hash House Mashers" (1915), "Restitution" (1918), "The Demon" (1918), "The Vanity Pool" (1918) and "The Outcasts of Poker Plat" (1919). She was married to Richard V. Spencer in 1911, then to Edward H. Maxwell until her early death at age 30 on July 28, 1927 from pulmonary tuberculosis at their home at 4116 Greenwood Ave. in Oakland, CA.