Summer in Geneva, Wisconsin

 

Whiting House, Geneva, Wisconsin

In June 1880, Anna Maria O'Brien was working as a seamstress and staying at the Whiting House hotel on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Anna was a sister of my 2nd-great-grandfather John J. O'Brien. I found her in the 1880 US Census, listed as a visitor at the Whiting House. She was 19 at the time. A description below from the Lake Geneva Cisco in 1881 gives a sense of what it was like for Anna to stay there.

Lake Geneva Cisco, 16 Jul 1881

Library of Congress. Lake Geneva, 1880.