What was in Ripon circa 1875 that would bring a young teenage girl from central New York? Her father died when she was a toddler, he mother re-married. The newspaper account:
DIED VANHOUSEN--Suddenly of hemmorhage of the lungs in Ripon Wis. June 11th 1876, Ida Vanhousen, only child of Mrs. Helen McGee of Carterville.

Was there a tuberculosis (consumption) facility there?
Was there a school for young ladies?

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