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My great great grandmother,. Amy, named Michael Adams as the father of her daughter, Lucinda---on the birth certificate.  He did not accompany her in her westward flight to rural Ohio after Lucinda was born; so I can only assume he was one of her "clients."  In the late nineteenth century, according to several monographs I have read, the most successful prostitutes were small of stature and adolescent, or able to make themselves appear to be adolescent.