Sylvia Johnson, The Belle of the Raquette, 1872

This is Sylvia Johnson, whose mother Lucy was better known as "Mother Johnson", and famous for her pancakes cooked for fisherman and loggers. Mother Johnson died in 1875, a few years after this portrait of her daughter was drawn.  Mother Johnson ran a hostelry at Raquette Falls from about 1860 with her husband Philander Johnson. Mother Johnson was immoralized by Adirondack Murray in his earliest books on the Adirondacks. Sylvia married Clark Farmer and her daughter was Jennie Morehouse of Indian Lake.