Ada (top) and Minna Everleigh, in portraits commissioned in Omaha, Nebraska in 1895.
Ada and Minna Everleigh, born Ada and Minna Simms, were two sisters who operated the Everleigh Club, a high-priced brothel in the Levee District of Chicago[1] during the first decade of the twentieth century.[2] Ada, the eldest, was born in Greene County, Virginia on February 15, 1864,[2][3] and died in Charlottesville, Virginia on January 5, 1960.[2][4] Minna was born in Greene County on July 13, 1866[2][3] and died in New York City on September 16, 1948.[2]
- ^ "Meet the sisters who ran 'the most famous and luxurious house of prostitution in the country'". Timeline. 17 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "Everleigh Club". Chicagology. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^ a b Abbott 2007, p. 4.
- ^ Abbott 2007, p. 296.