Lenah Kicker
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"Lenah Kicker," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/49.
- Position
- Laundress
- Years in President's House
- 1789
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- Unclear from Context
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Lenah Kicker’s life outside the President’s House is currently unknown. Lenah briefly worked as a washerwoman for President George Washington at his first presidential residence in New York. She only appears in one household account record in December 1789. She was replaced by Frances “Fanny” Fink.1
- Stephen Decatur, Jr., Private Affairs of George Washington: from the Records and Accounts of Tobias Lear, Esquire, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933), 107.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context
- Related Worker
- Frances FinkHousekeeping and Laundry, 1789 – circa 1793