Frederick A. Isham | Obituary

5 March 1937 | Lake Placid News

Jesse Halsey & Helen Isham Engaged

 20 Jan 1910 | Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Letter from Charles Erdman to Jesse Halsey

1938

On Dr. Charles Parkhurst

Jesse Halsey | 1933 

The death of Dr. Charles Parkhurst brings back some happy recollections of hours spent with him during successive summer on Lake Placid some ten years ago. He was straight as an arrow, ‘though eighty years old, vigorous in mind, incisive in his judgments, and clear-cut in his speech. This would apply to his sermons as well as to his conversation. The few sermons that are in print open with short periodic sentences and always remind me of a rapid-fire gun.

I was a young minister visiting in the mountains. Dr. Parkhurst had a cottage a half a mile away. One day I screed up courage and made a call. He was graciousness itself, inviting me back repeatedly. He talked and I listened. Often we walked out through the woods. His wife was an invalid and he would not leave the house for any great length of time. But, along the road east of Mirror Lake, or climbing Cobble Hill (he had been up the mountain) he told me interesting things, a few of which come to mind.

About the time he left his little church in Lenox, Mass., somewhere around 1880, his deacons had told him that it would be necessary to reduce his salary by two hundred dollars. I don’t remember the exact amount, but it was less than fifteen hundred and they felt they could raise only twelve. He told them he would give his decision within a fortnight. In the meantime, the call came to the Madison Square Church, in New York, with a salary of nearly ten thousand!

When the deacons heard this they came ‘round, offering not only to maintain their present standard but to increase it by two hundred dollars.

He had, I remember a great respect and affection for Dr. John Hall, who had, he felt, made possible his entrance to the New York Presbytery from the Congregational Church. Young Parkhurst, having confessed to the Presbytery that he knew very little about Presbyterian polity, immediately some rushed to the conclusion that he knew little about Presbyterian doctrine, and started to examine him. Dr. Hall soon arrested the examination and Dr. Parkhurst was very grateful.

He said that all his early sermons were logical and syllogistic, but that somehow the conclusion halted—he had few conversions. He had learned, after fifty years, he said, that a sermon ought to be made up in about equal parts of Bible and everyday life. While he wrote and used the manuscript, he felt that a more direct method was advisable, quoting Dr. Storrs as saying: “Every horse must take its own pace.” He confessed that his early sermons were little more than lectures on the beauty of the Berkshires and the glory of the constellations. Anyone who heard his fearless denunciation of evil in high places, in later years, realized how he grew in grace and wisdom.

He said to me one day, “A young minister, who keeps one eye on the church he is in, and one on the church that he would like to be in, is hardly fitted to be in either.”

When he made his attack on municipal corruption, he did it on common knowledge and hearsay. Dana, in The Sun, and the district attorney, “called his bluff,” as he expressed it, and he was forced to substantiate his statement with legal evidence.

For a month, with the aid of a detective and a trusted friend, he collected his evidence, visiting all sorts of places.

One Sunday morning, he came into the pulpit, replaced the Bible with his numerous affidavits and started a movement that lead to the “Lexow Investigation” and to the defeat of Tammany Hall.

Those who had the privilege of knowing Dr. Parkhurst feel that Lincoln Steffens, in his autobiography, does scant justice to the character and motives of a very great man.

Grenfell Alumni News / Officers and Directors / 1933

 Among the Deep Sea Fishers, volume 31, issue 3 (October 1933)
 

from left: Frederick Halsey, unknown, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Charles Halsey

Sir Wilfred and Lady Grenfell spent the summer at Kinloch House, Charlotte, Vermont; but Sir Wilf, with Lady Grenfell as chauffeur and general manager, lectured at Breadloaf Inn, the Averill Lakes, Greensboro, Swanton, Johnson and South Craftsbury, Vermont; at Amherst, Groton and Stockbridge, Massachusetts; at Concord (St. Paul's School) and Wonalancet, New Hampshire; and at Cortland, Essex, Lake Mohonk and Lake Placid, New York.

Sir Wilfred's motor boat, the PETREL, was brought down from St. Anthony on the New Northland and piloted through Lake Champlain to Charlotte. The skipper was Sir Wilfred; the first mate was the Reverend Jesse Halsey, who about 1910 spent three years on the Coast; the crew were Charles and Frederick Halsey, both born in St. Anthony.

Helen Isham Halsey Quass | Obituary

Southampton Press | 16 June 1966

Mrs. Helen H. Quass, 77, wife of Ralph L. Quass, died in Riverside, Calif., on Monday, June 6. She was the widow of Jesse Halsey, former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton.

Mrs. Quass is survived by her husband, Ralph; a son, Charles H. Halsey of Westhampton; two daughters, Mrs. Joseph H. Haroutunian of Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. James A. Van Allen of Iowa City, Iowa; a brother, Robert Isham of Lake Placid, N.Y., and ten grandchildren.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, June 9, in the Acheson and Gram Chapel, Riverside, Calif., and cremation followed in Evergreen Cemetery.

Memorial services will be held in Southampton on Sunday, June 19, at 2:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church.

"Druggist's Mistake Causes Insanity"

Ticonderoga Sentinel
FEBRUARY 20 1908.

Dr. Walter Warren, a Saranac Lake
and Lake Placid lung specialist, is
in the insane asylum at Ogdensburg.
That he insanity is said to be due to
a druggist's mistake in compounding
a prescription. The medicine had
been given to one of his patients, who
complained that it made him ill and to
prove that it was harmless Dr. Warren
took a large dose. Almost immed-
iately he became ill and physicians
were summoned, who found that the
medicine contained a powerful poison.
He gradually grew worse and finally
the mental trouble developed that caused
his removal.

History of the Village of Saranac Lake

from United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service The Village of Saranac Lake
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

The dense urban streetscape of the village of Saranac Lake, New York, is a marked
contrast to the vast stretches of unpopulated forest and tiny isolated hamlets which
exist in the Adirondack region. The extraordinary building stock of Saranac Lake,
with its multiple porches and walls of windows, its sophisticated conmercial blocks
and elegant residential districts, is the unique legacy of more than seventy years
when this community was an international center for the the treatment of pulmonary
tuberculosis. Here doctors developed the first successful methods of treating - and
even curing - a disease which had been the equivalent of a death sentence for almost
all of recorded history. In so doing, they also developed a specific building type -
the cure cottage - designed to facilitate the healing process for tubercular patients.
Many of these cure cottages still stand in Saranac Lake, the most visible reminders of
the village's days as America's "Pioneer Health Resort."

The incorporated Village of Saranac lake is located in the Adirondacks, a jagged
outcropping of mountainous peaks sliced by rapid-flowing streams and dotted with clear
glacial lakes, which juts up out of the glacial plains of upstate New York. Six
million acres of this rugged country and its isolated valley hamlets are part of the
Adirondack Park, where 2.5 million acres of state-owned forest land have been
protected as "forever wild" since as early as 1885. Deep in the heart of this
wilderness, in a sheltered valley crossed by the winding Saranac River, lies "the
little city of the Adirondacks."

The modern village of Saranac Lake is still the largest settlement within the
Adirondacks. Its political boundaries cross both county and town borders: two-thirds
of the village lies within the town of Harrietstown, in Franklin County; while the
remaining third is split between the towns of North Elba and St. Armand in Essex
County.

***

The quest for health in the nineteenth century was more than the narcissistic
self-improvement fads of modern times. For many/ the search was a matter of life or
death. The "White Plague" ran rampant for much of the century. Ihe number of Americans
infected with tuberculosis in the nineteenth century was as great as the combined number
of cancer and heart disease patients today. By 1873 tuberculosis, also called
consumption, killed one out of every seven Americans in a slow but unalterable physical
decline.

It was primarily a lung disease, but the tubercle bacillus could attack
any part of the body. Once lodged, the infection spread unchecked, steadily wearing
down the body's defense system, and eventually creating cavities in the lungs. At its
more advanced stages the best known symptoms were coughing, night sweats, paleness,
weight loss, virulent sputum, and spitting up blood. There was no known cure.

Transferred by airborne bacilli, the disease spread rapidly in enclosed or crowded
environments, threatening immediate family members as well as neighbors. Slum dwellers
and struggling factory workers were especially vulnerable, as were the very rich,
paradoxically, who employed servants from poor living conditions who unknowingly
harbored the disease. The disease did not confine itself to the very old and the very
young, but instead most frequently struck people in the prime of their life. [7]
In its sheltered position in a deep basin of hills, the village of Saranac Lake nad
begun to attract invalids as early as 1860 with the opening of Martin's Hotel. Until
the 1870s, however, none of these patients seemed to have braved the frigid winters of
the Adirondacks. Ihe first tubercular patient credited with staying year-round in
Saranac Lake was Mr. Edward C. Edgar who spent the winter of 1874 at the boarding
house run by the wife of Lucius Evans, a well-known local guide. At this time, the
village of Saranac Lake was little more than a saw mill, a small hotel for guides and lumbermen, a schoolhouse and perhaps a dozen guides' houses scattered over an area of an eighth of
a mile.

***

In the summer of 1883, Trudeau suggested the idea of a semi-charitable sanitarium
for the study and cure of tuberculosis to Anson Hielps Stokes, a New York bankersummered nearby at St. Regis Lake. Stokes immediately contributed five hundred dollars
to Trudeau's proposal. Ihe St. Regis camp owners and their friends vacationing at Paul
Smiths became the backbone of financial support for the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium^
Dr. Loomis and other prominent doctors offered their professional support. Local
guides and residents chipped in to buy sixteen acres of a sheltered hillside overlooking
the valley and donated the land to Trudeau's new project.

Trudeau modeled his fledgling institution on one founded in Goebersdorf, Germany, in
1852 by Dr. Hermann Brehmer, who advocated a climatological treatment for tuberculosis,
bringing patients to higher mountain altitudes where the combination of fresh air,
exercise, ample rest, and good food could effect their cure. By 1884, only a handful of
sanitoria were available for healthseekers - and all of them were in Europe. Trudeau
opened his Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in February 1885 with the completion of an
administration building and three small cottages, including Little Red," a one-room
cottage with a small porch. Trudeau's first two paying patients, Alice and Mary Hunt,
sisters who worked in a New York City factory, occupied "Little Red," a one room cottage
with a small porch.

For most of the nineteenth century, the term "sanitarium" was applied to all chronic
care institutions. Coming from the Latin word sanitas, meaning health, its most common
meaning is "health resort." Today it is most commonly the designation for mental health
institutions because of its close etymological links with the word "sanity." By the
early 1900s, however, a place for the treatment of invalids, particularly consumptives,
was more often called a "sanatorium," from the Latin word sanare, which means to cura or
heal. Trudeau christened his institution the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in 1885.
After his death, it was renamed the Trudeau Sanatorium.

***

For most of the nineteenth century, invalids in search of health took up residence
in public hotels in the mountains. As the infectious nature of tuberculosis became
known, however, tourist hotels throughout the Adirondacks began to refuse tuberculosis
guests. Some villages would not even allow them as residents. As a result, more and
more invalids came specifically to Saranac Lake, and the number of private cottages
catering to the needs of the sick jumped. By 1890, the village's population had tripled
to 1,582 and in the next thirty years, it would more than quadruple in size. Throughout
the village, the pace of building slowly began an acceleration that would last for the
next thirty years, imbuing the community with a sustained boom economy, and a boom
psychology as well.

Up at the "San" (the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium), Trudeau's fundraising efforts
continued to expand the facilities available for patients. In 1890 alone, three more
cottages and an open air amusement pavilion were added. Ihe first year's figures had
shown about 25% of the tuberculosis cases were arrested, and his success rate continued
to show promise. Because the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium only took needy patients, in
the early stages of their disease, there was a great need for patient housing for those
who were too sick or too wealthy to cure at the San. local residents began to take
patients into their homes or to open houses which functioned as private commercial
sanatoria. Holding fewer than twenty patients and most often around twelve, these
private sanatoria became known as "cure cottages."

***

The hilly open pastures which lay east of Church Street, between the riverside core
of the village and the Old Military Road (Pine Street), were next divided to create the
first large residential subdivision in the village. In 1892 Frederick A. Isham, a lake
Placid attorney, formed a partnership with the Orlando Bloods to divide 21 acres of
sheep pasture into 174 "Villa Sites." This became Helen Hill, named for its central
artery, Helen Street, which climbed straight up the steep slope. Soon the hill was
covered with houses, many of them private homes for prominent local citizens and/or
wealthy health seekers. Over the next twenty years, as the original owners died or
moved away, many of the houses were converted into commercial private sanatoria, growing
and changing to suit their new use, a pattern repeated along Church Street below.

Frederick A. Isham

from the Historic Saranac Lake Wiki

Born: May 21, 1860 (or May 22, 1859), Plattsburgh ¹

Died: February 26, 1926, Lake Placid

Married: Laura Haynes of Plattsburgh in 1885

Children: Three children, including Helen, for whom Helen Street is named

Frederick Asher Isham was senior partner in New York law firm Isham and Isham, and lived in New York City and Lake Placid; he was the son of H. L Isham. ² With the Blood family, he bought 21 acres of sheep pasture between Church Street and Pine Street and developed it, laying out 88 "Villa sites" on his eleven acres, along with the streets of Helen Hill. Fred Isham named Helen Street for his daughter, Helen Isham.

He was one of the original four Saranac Lake village trustees elected in 1892. With Milo B. Miller, he campaigned for the incorporation of the village of Saranac Lake, and in 1892, the first village board meeting was held in his office; he was named village clerk. ³

His sister, Ida Belle Isham, married Charles J. Greenough, a prominent Saranac Lake citizen.

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From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise Weekender, June 13, 1992, p. 2.

Of History and Humor: Saranac Lake's early days

By JOHN J. DUQUETTE

A rare photograph and a bit of Centennial history combine to afford us a glimpse of a rather unusual episode of local interest. The sequence begins with a parcel of Main Street property, a residential business office and the owner's role in the establishment of our village. Enter a picture-taker and the proprietor of a nearby hotel, who jointly conspired to produce the illustration which accompanies this article, and the drama unfolds.

A survey is in progress which is apparently locating the site for the new high school scheduled for 1890. The residence is the home of Frederick A. Isham with the square block addition serving as his law and real estate office. Isham, together with Milo B. Miller, was pressing for the community's becoming an incorporated village. Area growth in both population and additional buildings was creating an expansion that called for reliable municipal services and some sort of civil administration.

Hundreds of health seekers were arriving and resort hotels were springing up as sportsmen favored our area. Support merchants multiplied in accordance and it became obvious that such prosperity would necessitate a valid preparation just to keep pace. Isham, Miller and other concerned community leaders deemed it feasible to proceed with the incorporation plan. Seeking approval from the public in general, a special election was arranged to be held in early May with the results being currently celebrated during this our Centennial year. Officers elected were: Dr. E.L. Trudeau, president, Milo B. Miller, Francis M. Bull, and Dr. Charles F. Wicker, trustees; Frederick A. Isham, clerk. With the first village board, established steps were taken to appoint commissioners of the various departments and establish a set of laws to govern the community.

The first board meeting was held in Isham's office on June 16th, 1892, with Tuffield Latour being named street commissioner while W.J. Slater, Dr. C.F. Wicker, and Dr. J. C. Russell were appointed to the board of health. Subsequent meetings announced that tax collections would be forthcoming and William E. Roberts was named to the post of police constable. On July 13, a street survey and mapping project was authorized at a fixed amount of nine dollars per day. On Aug. 6 the board recommended the formation of a water commission and by Nov. 2nd, a constructor was set to work on a water and sewer project. On May 5, 1893 Dr. Trudeau retired and was replaced by Milo B. Miller and on Nov. 17th E.E. Lobdell was appointed to act as night watchman.

On June 23rd, 1894, Steve Merchant had to appear before the board in answer to a complaint that one of his lumber stacks was blocking the road next to the Main Street Bridge. Steve owned and operated the former Pliny Miller sawmill where the Saranac Lake Village office building is presently located. He agreed to move the lumber. Moving on to 1895 a new street was approved that would run from Broadway to "Trestle Street" and was to be named Woodruff Street (Trestle Street later became Bloomingdale Avenue and the former name reflected the narrow gauge railroad timber trestle that ran from Union Station to Pine Street) The railroad was the Chateaugay, which reached Saranac Lake from Plattsburgh in 1887 and was extended to Lake Placid six years later On January 22nd, the firm of Jackson and Merkel was granted a franchise to operate a telephone system in the village for a term of five years.

And so it went, step by step the emerging village was testing its wings in the civil realm. The many complicated functions related to municipal management were met and mastered by our village fathers, although they possessed little or no previous experience in such matters. It was our good fortune to have had personnel of that caliber during those developing years. Business also seemed to prosper with the native enterprise and the ability to adapt to both the health and recreation industries. Local entrepreneurs as well as some of the visiting gentry erected substantial buildings along Main Street and Broadway as the village took shape.

That pretty much takes care of the historical aspects... so where's the humor?

Returning to the subject of the photograph, Isham's house and office were moved to what is now Academy Street to make way for the new Main Street High School. It was in this new location that the early board meetings were held as the school was built in 1890. By 1906 Isham had moved to Lake Placid and years later the wing that held his office was occupied by A. B. Hokanson as a tailor shop. The photo, which was taken by George Baldwin in 1888, contains the humorous part of our story. What is purported to be a bona fide survey in progress is actually a burlesque. The "surveyor's" transit is an empty beer case mounted on a stepladder and the sighting scope, which is mounted on the beer case, is nothing more than an empty whiskey bottle. His assistant, near the porch, is holding a sapling pole to represent a level rod. The surveyor at the transit happened to be R A. Streeter who, at that time, was the owner of the. Berkeley Hotel across the street and his assistant, the rod man, was J. H. Wilson, who was the bartender at the Berkeley, It had to be either Baldwin or Streeter who instigated this prank but, in any case, it was a superb bit of deception!

To the right of Isham's house is the McKee building and above its roofline the tower of the old Town Hall can be seen. In 1888 it had just been completed and the town clock had not as yet been installed (note the blank circles). The large boulder at the right has appeared in many of the early village photos but was removed for the construction of Academy Street. Seaver Miller and Judge Utting both claimed that, as children, they played on the rock. If you happen to have a copy of the Centennial Booklet you can find this same boulder on Page 10, "A Barren Main St.," and again on Page 15 "President Harrison dedicates new high school" Apparently it was a rock with a good press agent.

At some period of time between Isham and Hokanson the main portion of the former residence was separated from the smaller office and quite possibly remains, although somewhat altered, at No. 7 Academy Street. A second story was added to the little office building but, oddly, the roofline decorative frieze remained in place. For a brief time the building served as a telephone office. Today, as the Decorator Shop, ⁴ it is sandwiched between two driveways at No. 5 Academy Street across from the Hotel Saranac. It has been slightly altered and a concrete block addition has been added in the rear but nothing can detract from that history was made here 100 years ago. Four years earlier Baldwin and Streeter had joined forces on Main St. to prove that even such an important page in local history can have its comic section appropriately entitled "Of History and Humor."

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Sources:

• Foerstner, Abigail, James Van Allen: the first eight billion miles, University of Iowa Press, 2007. p. 69 Full text here
  
• Gallos, Philip L., Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, Historic Saranac Lake, 1985. ISBN 0-9615159-0-2

• 1Brainard, Homer Worthington, A survey of the Ishams in England and America: Eight Hundred and Fifty Years of History and Genealogy, 1938
• 2Plattsburgh Sentinel, January 15, 1886
• 3Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Weekender, p. 2, November 6, 1993, "Profiling Milo Miller"
• 4The Decorator Shop has since moved to 17 Church Street

Halsey Films | Frame by Frame Index | c 1926 | Cincinnati, Lake Placid, Boston, Southampton, Whalebone

Film Still | Frederick Halsey | Cincinnati | c1931

1) Cincinnati c1931 Scottie dog, Frederick Halsey (in white shirt and white pants, getting into car), unidentified young boy and girl at car?

2) (00:24) Cincinnati 1926 Frederick (in white shirt and dark short pants) and Abigail Halsey (mowing),  7^th Presbyterian, older man on sidewalk?, street car, delivery to church, likely Charlie Casey (janitor at Seventh Presbyterian; man in hat and glasses by church plague), Abbie and Frederick on bikes, Wilmun "Billy" Halsey, Abbie, Charles (mowing and on bike), Abbie and Freck (by door), Charles (coming out door in hat), Billy and Abbie (on tricycles), Freck (drawing on sidewalk and opening garage), Charles (driving), Freck and Abbie (getting into car), Freck and Charles (wrestling), Abbie (in dress), Abbie and Billy (playing store), Helen (in knee socks), Charles, Billy, Abbie (on bike), Freck and Abbie with Charlie Casey, Billy, Abbie, Freck (getting into car), unidentified young woman in coat in front of Helen Sr.?, Helen Halsey Sr, Helen Jr. (w/out coat), Charles (in suit getting into driver’s seat), Abbie on tricycle with Helen (in hat)

3) (03:05) Cincinnati c1926 Charles (dark suit), Frederick (light suit), Billy (in sailor suit and w/violin), Abbie (with umbrella), Helen (in smocking), maid (in doorway), Helen Sr in doorway with umbrella and Billy and Abbie, Helen (in smocking), Abbie and Billy with children at water fountain and people in park

4) (04:10) Lake Placid 1926 Grandfather Frederick Isham, Freck (exiting and entering house), Abbie and Helen (picking flowers), Helen (knee socks), Abbie (in hat), Freck (short pants, lifting Abbie), Billy (in coat and cap), Charles (playing on fence w/ hat), Billy (in cap), Freck walking with Abbie down path, Helen, Helen, Billy and Abbie walking down street into store, Helen, Billy and Helen outside house, Billy and Abbie in garden

5) (04:53) Concord/Boston/Bunker Hill Monument 1926 Men with ox cart, Helen Halsey, Helen Jr., and Abbie with women and children walking across bridge (Isham cousins?), Bunker Hill Memorial, street scenes in Boston, Boston Harbor, train station, rowing on Charles River?, Abbie and Helen on Boston Street, New Hampshire w/Dr. and Mrs. John Mason Little’s family (following death of Dr. Little in March 1926?)

6) (07:36) Whalebone 1926 Jesse Halsey (white shirt, cap, tending fire pit), Helen Halsey (white dress, black hat, sitting with girls), unidentified bald man in black suit sitting?, Sam Herrick and Edward Pearson White (in boat), Frederick Halsey (black suit by boat), Edward Post White, Sr. (in beach chair), Nancy Herrick Hartwell (blond on left), Joanna Ruland (dark hair, striped suit?), unidentified boy in diamond suit?, Elizabeth “Ibby” White Adams (S on suit), Frederick Halsey (black suit, right of Ibby), Jesse Halsey (in beach chair), Lizbeth Halsey White (patterned dress and hat), Abigail Halsey (child), Helen Halsey Sr. (white dress, black hat), Abigail Fithian Halsey (seated, white dress, hat w/ black tie), Bill Bishop (glasses, bow tie?), unidentified bald man sitting in black suit, Aunt Edna Halsey Ruland (dark hair, gray dress, standing), Aunt Augusta “Gussie” Terry Halsey (black hat and black dress), Nan Herrick (glasses), Alma Jaggar Bishop (standing, in white), Jane and Alma Bishop (small children), Aunt “Gussie” Halsey (in black) and Aunt Edna Ruland (dark hair, gray dress, standing), Bill Bishop (glasses, cap), Edward Post White and Lizbeth Halsey White, Abigail “Babbie” Fithian Halsey (white dress, w/pole), Bill Bishop and Edward White horsing around, Bill Bishop pulls Babbie into sand, Jesse Halsey (in black suit), Bill Bishop (on ground), Babbie (with rake), Edna Ruland and Joanna Ruland? (in background), Gussie Halsey (in chair), Abigail Halsey, Alma Bishop, Jane Bishop (in surf), Sam Herrick, Edward Pierson White, Billy Halsey (in boat), Aunt Nan Herrick (folding blanket), Uncle Bill Bishop (glasses, hat, left), Uncle Jack Herrick (right)

7) (08:53) Southampton, 49 No. Main c1926 Charles Halsey (mowing), Jesse Halsey (white shirt), Helen Halsey (crossing street with cake), Jesse (mowing), Charles (driving), Abbie (on top of wagon), (Bug House) Jane Bishop, Helen Bishop, Alma Bishop, Abbie, Billy, Charles carrying Abbie and Billy piggyback

8) (10:18) Whalebone c1926 Uncle Jack Herrick (splitting wood), Abbie Halsey (surfing), Billy Halsey, Helen Bishop, Abbie, Sam Herrick, Helen Halsey, (small children), Frederick and Jesse (?) getting into clamming boat, Nancy Herrick, Aunt Nan Herrick, Aunt Alma Bishop? (pumping water); Abbie, Billy, Sam, Jane (sliding); (21:50) Dr. and Mrs. Craven? Lizbeth Halsey White?, Helen Halsey, Uncle Bill Bishop, Jane Bishop, Abbie, Billy, Herrick family, Helen Halsey Jr. (girl in white, bottom left, by stairs), Aunt Nan, Uncle Jack, Nancy, Sam, Uncle Bill Bishop (far right), Helen Halsey (bottom of slide), Jane Bishop, Abbie

© Anne Halsey. All rights reserved. 

Halsey Boys | Lake Placid | 1926

Frederick

Charles & Billy

Helen & Charles c1926

Film Stills | Lake Placid | c1926

Lake Placid Season Busy

Golf Players Work Hard and Many Parties Climb Whiteface and Marcy
Special to The New York Times
August 2, 1908, Sunday
Resort and Fashion Section

LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Aug. 1. -- In addition to the events arranged by the Lake Placid Yacht Club, which are being carried out in their proper order, the young people at the different hotels are all actively engaged with entertainments and outings of their own devising.

One of the outings in which the young people at the Stevens House found much pleasure was a launch ride and super at Camp Swastika on Sunset Straits, in which those taking part were Miss Anna Cozzens, Miss Phyllis Verity, Miss Shannon, Miss Helen Isham, Ralph Viall, John McGraw, and Paul and Hubert Stevens. Early in the week Mrs. Stevens, wife of George A. Stevens, the proprietor of the hotel entertained at dinner Pof. and Mrs. John Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins's sister, Miss J.C. Pyrerr, Mrs. J. Williston Wright, and Hubert Stevens.

The sixty-eighth birthday of Dr. J. Williston Wright was made the occasion of a jolly little party at Mrs. Steven's camp Swastika on Thursday.

Among the guests at the Ruisseaumont Hotel tennis has been perhaps the most popular pastime this week, and several interesting matches and one-day tournaments have taken place. Upton Sinclair, who is a great lover of the game and is spending the Summer at one of the camps near the Ruisseaumont, was a a player in one of the best of these.

Lake Placid Campers Busy

Mountain Climbing, Auto Parties and Fishing Expeditions Take Up the Time
Special to The New York Times
July 12 1908, Sunday
Resort and Fashion Section

LAKE PLACID, N.Y., July 11. -- With house parties, boating parties, mountain parties, luncheons, and other jolly events the guests at the different hotels have been amusing themselves in the cool, invigorating atmosphere of the mountains during the past week.

A party of young people making the ascent of Mount Whitney included Miss Phyllis Verity, Miss Anna Cozzens, Miss Alice Dike, Miss Helen Isham, Ralph Viall, John McGraw, Clarence Dike, Robert Isham, William Greenough, William Halleck, and Allan Hardie.

Mr. and Mrs. H.S. Brath, Miss Betton, Miss Ames, and John Auchincloss make up a party of young people from New York recently arrived who are now at the Auchincloss camp on Moose Island.

Sailing on Lake Placid

Frederick Isham Halsey, Robert Isham, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Charles Henry Halsey
Frederick's boat on Lake Placid, July/August 1933

Rev. Jesse Halsey, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, Charles Henry Halsey, July/August 1933