Miss Kate Hain lived in Swartzville, an unincorporated community and census-designated place in East Cocalico Township of northeast Lancaster County. This agricultural area, southwest of
Mr. Bernard Decker lived in Germantown, a town on the east bank of the Hudson River in east-central New York State. The area around Germantown
Mrs. Louisa Hinkle lived in Oskaloosa, a city and county seat of Mahaska County in central Iowa. Oskaloosa is built on a high ridge between
Master Leslie Caton was growing up in Rochester, the prosperous manufacturing center on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York