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Alan Brooks

2026-02-25T20:21:46Z

Emily: Added photo of patient and brick.

[[File:Irving (Alan Brooks) Hayward.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Irving Hayward (Alan Brooks). Courtesy of Eric Fowler.]]
'''Alan Brooks''' was born on January 25, 1888 in New York City, New York, USA as Irving Hayward. He was an actor, known for [[Silent Films|silent films]] such as [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135450?ref_=nmbio_mbio Home Struck] (1927), [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018432?ref_=nmbio_mbio South Sea Love] (1927) and [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018384?ref_=nmbio_mbio Shanghaied] (1927). He died on September 29, 1936 in Saranac Lake, New York.

He appeared in the play "Pleasure Man" with Mae West; an interesting article about the play is [https://courtingmaewest.blogspot.com/2010/09/alan-brooks-and-mae-west.html Courting Mae West].

'''Film Credits:'''
[[File:IrvingHaywardBrick.jpg|thumb|A brick at the [[Saranac Laboratory]] has been dedicated in the name of Irving Hayward by his descendants. ]]
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File:IrvingHaywardBrick.jpg

2026-02-25T20:20:21Z

Emily:

Brick for Irving Hayward at the Saranac Laboratory

File:Irving (Alan Brooks) Hayward.jpg

2026-02-25T20:18:10Z

Emily:

Portrait of Irving Hayward

Kathleen Smith Jordan

2026-02-25T20:12:09Z

Emily:

'''Born:''' June 20, 1901 in Twyford, England

'''Died:''' August 21, 1993 in Granite Falls, Minnesota

'''Married:''' Lewis Jordan

'''Dr. Kathleen Boyt Jordan''' (née Smith) was a physician famed for administering more than two million Mantoux tuberculin skin tests in Minnesota. While based in Granite Falls with her husband Dr. Lewis Jordan, she traveled across the state to perform tests and keep track of the disease in Minnesota.

In 1927, while a student at Western Reserve Medical School in Ohio, Jordan contracted tuberculosis and was sent to [[Trudeau Sanatorium]] for treatment. It was there she met her husband Lewis Jordan, who was a recent graduate from medical school also curing from his case of tuberculosis. Dr. Jordan was inspired by her treatment at Trudeau to continue the battle against tuberculosis wherever she ended up.

Read more about Dr. Kathleen Jordan's work on the American Lung Association blog [https://www.lung.org/blog/dr-kathleen-jordan-tuberculosis here].

Kathleen Smith Jordan

2026-02-25T20:11:58Z

Emily:

DISPLAYTITLE

'''Born:''' June 20, 1901 in Twyford, England

'''Died:''' August 21, 1993 in Granite Falls, Minnesota

'''Married:''' Lewis Jordan

'''Dr. Kathleen Boyt Jordan''' (née Smith) was a physician famed for administering more than two million Mantoux tuberculin skin tests in Minnesota. While based in Granite Falls with her husband Dr. Lewis Jordan, she traveled across the state to perform tests and keep track of the disease in Minnesota.

In 1927, while a student at Western Reserve Medical School in Ohio, Jordan contracted tuberculosis and was sent to [[Trudeau Sanatorium]] for treatment. It was there she met her husband Lewis Jordan, who was a recent graduate from medical school also curing from his case of tuberculosis. Dr. Jordan was inspired by her treatment at Trudeau to continue the battle against tuberculosis wherever she ended up.

Read more about Dr. Kathleen Jordan's work on the American Lung Association blog [https://www.lung.org/blog/dr-kathleen-jordan-tuberculosis here].

Kathleen Smith Jordan

2026-02-25T20:11:23Z

Emily:

Kathleen Smith Jordan

2026-02-25T20:10:54Z

Emily: Created page with "DISPLAYTITLE '''Born:''' June 20, 1901 in Twyford, England '''Died:''' August 21, 1993 in Granite Falls, Minnesota '''Married:''' Lewis Jordan '''Dr. Kathleen Boyt Jordan''' (née Smith) was a physician famed for administering more than two million Mantoux tuberculin skin tests in Minnesota. While based in Granite Falls with her husband Dr. Lewis Jordan, she traveled across the state to perform tests and keep track of the disease in Minnesota. In 1927, while a stud..."

George J. Carson

2026-02-25T19:35:56Z

Emily: Added photo.

[[File:George Carson Poster.jpg|thumb|George J. Carson campaign poster. Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2025.3.88.]]
'''Born''': June 6, 1895

'''Died''': February 22, 1982

'''Married''': Emma D. Jerome

'''George J. Carson''' served as a [[Saranac Lake village trustees|village trustee]] from 1933 to 1937, and was [[Saranac Lake Village Mayors|mayor]] of Saranac Lake from 1941 to October 20, 1946.
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''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', February 23, 1982

'''George Carson, once mayor, dies '''

SARANAC LAKE-George J Carson, a life-long resident of this village and Democratic mayor here from 1941 to 1946, died yesterday, Feb. 22, at his home, [[Muhoney Cottage|11 Woodruff St]].

Mr. Carson, who also served as a village trustee from 1933 to 1937, is remembered as a "good administrator" during his years in village government, according to a fellow Democrat, [[Howard McKillip|Howard McKillip]]. He was the owner and operator of [[Carson Brothers Plumbing and Heating|Carson Brothers Plumbing and Heating]] for 55 years before retiring.

Mr. Carson was born June 6, 1895 in Lewis, the son of William and Margaret (Hennessy) Carson Sr.

His wife, the former Emma D. Jerome, whom he married May 11, 1925 at [[St. Bernard's Church]], and several nieces and nephews survive.

He was a life member of both the Knights of Columbus Council No. 599 and the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, Bishop Gabriels General Assembly and member of local [[Elks Lodge|Elks Lodge]] 1508.

Calling hours at the [[Keough and Son Funeral Home]] will be private.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday at 11:15 a.m., at St. Bernard's Church with the Rev. [[C. J. McAvoy|C. J. McAvoy]] officiating.

Burial will be in [[Pine Ridge Cemetery]] in May.

Donations, in his memory, may be made to the Heart Fund or the [[Saranac Lake volunteer Rescue Squad|Saranac Lake Rescue Squad]].

File:George Carson Poster.jpg

2026-02-25T19:34:42Z

Emily:

Poster for George J. Carson’s supervisor [possibly mayor] bid, c. 1940. Reads, “Support George J. Carson, for Supervisor to Insure Business-Like Government,” with headshot of Carson and three stars. Printed in black and white.

Anderson Cottage

2026-01-23T15:18:23Z

Emily: Added photo and information based on email from Bob Harvey, descendant of Elizabeth Milbank Anderson.

[[File:Anderson Cottage.jpg|right|thumb||Anderson Cottage ]]

[[File:Anderson Cottage 1920s.jpg|left|thumb||Anderson Cottage, c. 1920s. Courtesy of Lynn Newman. ]]'''Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District, Reference Number 37'''

'''Year built:''' 1898

'''Architect:''' [[William L. Coulter|William L. Coulter]]
[[File:Anderson Cottage Harvey.jpg|left|thumb|Anderson Cottage with [[Baker Memorial Chapel]] and the [[Resident Physician's House]] in the background. Courtesy of Bob Harvey.]]
[[File:photo-10.jpg|left|thumb||Anderson Cottage with [[Mt. Baker|Mt. Baker]] in the background. Courtesy of Noreen Oslander]]'''Description: Anderson Cottage''' is a one and one-half story frame cottage, built on the site of the [[Cooper Cottage|Cooper Cottage]] called "Sunshine," which was removed in 1898. 1 It is the northernmost of the three picturesque cottages, Trudeau, Ladd and Anderson, and the second of them to be built. Design features which can still be seen include a cobblestone foundation and a double-pitched roof with a "stretched" or widened conical center section. Anderson was a four-patient cottage with the same basic plan as McAlpin, Inslee, Ladd and Rosenfeld, and included bathrooms and clothes closets. 2 It had a heating system installed at the time it was built. The porches were enclosed in clapboard after 1957.

'''History:''' [[Elizabeth Milbank Anderson|Elizabeth Milbank Anderson]] was already numbered among Trudeau's "constant friends" when she gave this cottage. From 1893 to 1908, she single-handedly supported the operating costs of the [[Saranac Laboratory]] on Church Street. 3 Other members of her family had a presence in the Adirondacks as well. Milbank, her maiden name, is shown as the owner of a camp on the map of [[Upper St. Regis Lake|Upper St. Regis Lake]]. 4 There was also a [[Milbank Cottage|Milbank Cottage]] at [[Paul Smith's College|Paul Smith's College]] which was very likely a remainder from the predecessor hotel, and presumably named for the guests who either had it built, or rented it on a regular basis. 5 Both cottages were built by her cousin, Albert Journey Milbank. 6

'''Sources:'''
* [[Mary B. Hotaling|Mary B. Hotaling]], Draft nomination to the [[National Register of Historic Places]], January 1993.
* [http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3639 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form]
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''[[Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', May 12, 1994

'''High Peaks Hospice relocates'''

SARANAC LAKE - For the first time since the 1950s, part of the Trudeau Sanitarium is again devoted to health care. High Peaks Hospice has moved its headquarters to the grounds of the American Management Association, located at the former Trudeau Sanitarium, world-renowned as a health care center for tuberculosis from late 1884 to the 1950s.

Dr. [[Francis B. Trudeau|Francis Trudeau]], a hospice volunteer and grandson of the sanitarium's founder. Dr. [[Edward Livingston Trudeau]], commenting on the move, said: "I think it is tremendous that hospice will continue to make a contribution there as it gives great continuity to the history of health care. It is wonderful that AMA continues to make it possible for non-profits to use those cottages. A statue, ''[[Wikipedia:Gloria_Victis_(sculpture)|Gloria Victis]]'', (given to Dr. Edward L. Trudeau) now in the lobby of the Trudeau Research Institute, depicts an angel carrying a fallen warrior which is exemplary of the courage and purposefulness in dying. It is a talisman for hospice just as it was for the many, many, sick people who were at the sanitarium."

Hospice actually moved into the seven-room Anderson Cottage on April 22 with a staff of 19 and seven volunteers.

Lynn Sarr, executive director since August of 1989, saw hospice through the move from its previous office on [[Old Lake Colby Road|Old Lake Colby Road]]. Before leaving to return to her specialty in clinical nursing, she thanked Mitchel Smith, AMA corporate controller, who worked with hospice, making it possible to remodel the building to its needs.

Organized in 1986, High Peaks Hospice provides comprehensive medical, emotional and spiritual care to terminally ill patients and their families throughout much of the Adirondack Mountain region of northern New York. It emphasizes pain and symptom control to preserve the dignity and quality of life. The goal is to make it possible for patients to stay at home rather than in the hospital. Last year, the agency expanded into Warren County where it now has an office in Glens Falls.

The Anderson Cottage was built in 1898 by [[Elizabeth Milbank Anderson|Elizabeth Millbank Anderson]] for four patients and replaced an earlier cottage on that side known as the [[Cooper Cottage|Cooper Cottage]]. The cottage was designed by architect [[W. L. Coulter|W. L. Coulter]] and built by [[J.J. O'Connell|J.J. O'Connell]]. According to Trudeau Historian [[Mary Hotaling|Mary Hotaling]], she was a great benefactress of Dr. Trudeau's and paid for the entire operating cost of the [[Saranac Laboratory]] on [[Church Street|Church Street]] from 1893 to 1908.

An open house will be scheduled soon at the new facility.

'''See also:''' [[Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District]]

'''[[Other historic properties]]'''

===Comments===

===Footnotes===

1. Armstrong #5, 79. 2. Scopes & Feustmann. 3. ELT, 267. 4. Hooker, map, 58. 5. "Historical Update: Paul Smith's College, Lands, Forests, and Buildings, 1981 to 2004" by Michael Kudish, August 2004, page 14. Milbank Cottage was the first located west of Lambert Cottage (extant); it was demolished by the college September 21-23, 1992.

6. Email from Bob Harvey, descendant.

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Emily: Emily reverted File:Photo-10.jpg to an old version

File:Anderson Cottage Harvey.jpg

2026-01-23T14:51:27Z

Emily:

Anderson Cottage with Baker Chapel and the Resident Physician's House in the background. Courtesy of Bob Harvey.