Nevada State Museum photo Jeanette "Jennie" O'Hare Riordan was born in Carson City in 1874. She attended Hannah Clapp's Sierra Seminary and went on to become a teacher in Esmeralda, Nye and Lincoln counties. Though she spent a good portion of her life away from Carson City, she and husband, James, returned in 1943 and stayed until their deaths in the early 1960s.