66.01.75

Print, Photographic

1900 Approximate

Lillie Everett Curtiss. 3 1/8" x 4 1/4" black and white photograph of Lillie Everett Curtiss, daughter of William E. Everett by his first wife. (Lillie survived the Dakota Indian massacre at Lake Shetek in 1862 that killed her mother and brother, and wounded her father--she was kidnapped and later recovered by soldiers.) (Album 1 photo 30b)

The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the E. A. Co Mill in Waseca County. The Everett home, built by William's son Edward Everett, overlooking the east end of Clear Lake, was a showplace in its time, a classic Victorian-style home, it was demolished in 1958 it was an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County.