A newspaper's social column in newspapers a hundred years ago was how you knew who was in town and who was traveling to visit family.
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| "The Misses Lysle Visit Here," Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania), 2 April 1913, p. 16, col. 3; digital images, Newspapers.com. |
The Misses Lysle Visit Here
Miss Caroline and Miss Eliza Lysle, of Washington, D. C., are at the Hotel Schenley. The Misses Lysle have spent the winter at the Chalfonte, Atlantic City, and are in Pittsburgh for a fortnight, before returning to Washington to re-open their apartments for the spring season.
The Hotel Schenley in Pittsburgh, designed in 1898, was the first large steel-framed skyscraper hotel in Pittsburgh and was considered the most elegant hotel in Pittsburgh. The Chalfonte Hotel in Atlantic City, expanded in the first decade of the 1900s, was Atlantic City's first tall, iron-framed hotel. Following is an image of the Brighton Hotel, possibly around the time that "the Misses Lysle" had an apartment there.
Caroline (Aunt Carrie) and Eliza (Aunt Lide) Lysle were the sisters of my second great grandfather, George Lysle (1845-1900). They were the three youngest children of George Lysle and Margaret McIlwaine. These two youngest daughters never married and led a comfortable life.
After living in Allegheny City or Pittsburgh for most of their lives, Caroline (Aunt Carrie) Lysle and Eliza (Aunt Lide) Lysle moved to Washington, D.C. some time between 1900 and 1910. They lived in the Brighton Hotel until Caroline's death in December 1914, when it appears that Eliza returned to live near family in Pittsburgh.
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| Carrie Lysle (photo enhanced by MyHeritage) |
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| Eliza Lysle (photo enhanced by MyHeritage) |
The sisters enjoyed life, traveling to Europe a couple of times (each applied for a passport in the fall of 1889, along with their sister Isabella (Lysle) Whigham, who I wrote about in 2018).
Eliza Lysle died at the home of her niece, Marguerite (Lysle) Hunter, 836 Highland Avenue, in August 1928.
I descend from their parents, George Lysle and Margaret McIlwaine, as follows:
I took liberties with this week's theme of Family Gathering.
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