1891 Jack and Jill YC Trophy

The Jack and Jill Yacht Club Trophy,  donated to the Yacht Club on July 4, 1891, by  H. H. Porter, Commodore of the Jack and Jill Yacht Club and later of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club. In 1969, Honorary Commodore Ernst Schmidt brought the trophy to the club after receiving it from its 1906 winner, Theodora Wheeler Finney, who requested that it be “on permanent display as a remembrance of early yachting on Geneva Lake.” (Mrs. Finney, an Honorary Member at the time, was the granddaughter of Julian S. Rumsey, owner of the Nettie.) The trophy is engraved with the names of its 21 winners between 1891 and 1920.

1891 The Jack and Jill YC Trophy, originally donated by Henry H. Porter; presented to LGYC by Julian S. Rumsey’s daughter, Mrs. William S. Finney, not to be a trophy again but as a memento of  past sailing on Geneva Lake (silver urn