 Olive and her younger sister Harriet Risley (born 1850) and their father, traveled together to California in the summer of 1870 with Seward, where Hanson left the group.His daughters continued with Seward and two other married couples to Japan and China.In Shanghai, when one couple left the group to return home and George Seward, accompanied by his wife, took up his post as the new U.S. consul general in Shanghai, Seward and the two young women faced the prospect of continuing as a gossip-provoking trio.