School Girls @ 1900

This photograph was in the collection which belong to Janet McAdam Waning.  

The two young women are Effie and Evie Chapman and they are twins.  They were born in January 1888 and in the 1900 census are residing with their uncle Henry and aunt Catherine Chapman in Westfield Township, Dodge County, MN.  Perhaps they too attended school in School District #64 with the McAdam children.  Janet McAdam was old enough to have been their teacher in the 1890's.  After all these many years, the connection is subject to speculation and guess-work.