Mr. Semphroch

Edna Semphroch's Father was a man from Washington, DC. Some time in the late nineteenth century he hired prostitute Nellie Semphroch for prostitution. He impregnated Nellie--or at least, both he and Nellie believed he did; since Nellie, in the course of her work, slept with a huge number of men, questions of paternity could not be answered with any certainty prior to the innovation of genetic testing. The man married Nellie and set her up as the proprietress of a coffee shop so she could stop prostituting herself and give their daughter Edna a respectable home. He died very shortly after his daughter's birth.