The tall, strikingly beautiful redhead born Elizabeth Richter in the German kingdom of Prussia in wore billowing skirts for daytime wear and elaborate brocades and velvet at night. But it was Lib, also called Lizzy and Lizzie during her lifetime, who reigned as queen on Pearl Street in what was then called the Haymarket section of Dayton.
It also captured the attention of local resident Jim Forcum. Two years later, in , she married Joseph R. She gave birth to her son, George Richter, in , according to Forcum research Joseph was not the father. Undoubtedly a sign of the times, she called him her nephew and not her son, even though he was raised in her house. Hedges opened her first bordello on Main Street across from the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in and sold beer for a nickel a glass.
Other favorites were sold at higher prices in the back. Photo: Shutterstock. Tall, of fine figure and carriage, coarse of feature and robust of voice, inclined in her later years to an impressive embonpoint, and possessed of a splendid dignity. Her hennaed hair, in a massive and rolling pompadour, rose high over her flashing eyes. And her statuesque bust emerged triumphantly from the frilled and ruffled elegance of the gowns of a generation ago.
The second floor had seven bedrooms. Why do you come to me? I have to pay for clearing out the muck, replacing damaged siding, repairing foundations, painting and plastering. Have you any idea what all this is costing me? She encouraged her girls โ women from outside the city of Dayton to avoid the complications that came with hiring local girls โ to save their money. Two or three of them would been seen around town with her on Sunday afternoon in her phaeton, an open carriage. Legend has it that the only time John L.
Sullivan , the man credited as the first heavyweight champion of the world, was knocked out was in Bon Ton Hotel, after being brought there by Dayton dignitaries. Lib went after a local customer who spoke poorly of Ollie Brown one of her girls who died at work with a fireplace poker. The man told the ladies he was sorry. Lib took care of her sister when Lou fell ill to stomach cancer in Louisa La Fontaine died on May 23, Louisa was buried on the hilltop at Woodland Cemetery next to the spot Elizabeth had picked out for herself.
