Mary Boesch at The Commercial Hotel in Humphrey, NE

Mary Boesch at Humphrey Commercial Hotel circa 1911. Mary arrived in town with her mother and brother in about 1910 after her mother married Jacob Supanchick. Mary became employed at the hotel and met her future husband Frank Schmidt at the hotel. He worked at the blacksmith shop across the street and often had lunch in the Hotel’s restaurant. Mary would have been about 22 in this photo.Mary Boesch is the woman on the left. The other two women are unknown at this time. If you know who they are, please let me know.

“The Commercial Hotel, still in operation and well conducted, was built by W. H. Tieskoetter, a saloon building and residence by Jacob Ripp, and Sherwood’s livery barn; all built in 1880.” From Past & Present of Platte County, Nebraska – Volume I ©1915 S.J. Clarke Publishing.