Louis Kernochan
Born: November 2, 1869
Died: July 10, 1931
Married: Eliza Maria Dickerson
Children: John B. Kernochan
Louis Kernochan was a businessman who founded Louis Kernochan and Company.
He served as a Village Trustee in 1916 and 1917, and on the Board of Directors of the Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce and on the Winter Carnival Association in 1923. He was also an active member of the Curling Club.
Undated, unidentified news clipping:
LOUIS KERNOCHAN DIES AT HOSPITAL
Farmer Local Wholesale Grocer And Fruit Dealer Was Later Located at Saranac Lake
Louis Kernochan, formerly of Poughkeepsie,died Friday morning at the Elizabeth Horton Memorial Hospital, Middletown. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon from the Presbyterian Church, Hopewell Junction. Interment was in the family plot, Grahams Cemetery near Pine Bush.
Survivors of Mr. Kernochan are his wife, Alice Arnold Fraleigh of this city and three children, Alice Irene Fraleigh, Arnold Fraleigh, a sophomore at Cornell University and John Benson Kernochan who lives at borne. Also surviving are three sisters Marie, wife of P. A. Hinchcliffe, of Brookline, Mass.; Mrs. Ella Dickerson of Plainfield. N. J. and Anabel, wife of Dr. Norman W. Currie, of Plainfield N,J, and one granduaghter, Anna Littlefield.
Mr. KeenocItan was born at Scarsdale November 2, 1869, a son of John and Agnes Weller Kernochan. He was a member of Newburgh Lodge, F. & A. M. and of King Solomon Council No. 31, R. & S. M. of Poughkeepsie. He belonged also to Mecca Temple of New York City. He was a member of the Hopewell Junction Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Saranac Lake Club. He was in the wholsale fruit and grocery business in this city and later engaged in the same business at Saranac Lake, where he was prominent in public affairs. He married Marie Dickerson in 1903. She died at Saranac Lake in 1912, leaving two children, Dorothy, now the wife of Meredith Littlefield of Autoburgh and Clifford Louis, employed as a sea plane pilot at Fort Washington. L. I.
Funeral arrangements were in the charge of Isaac J. Hasbrouck of Middletow.
Malone Farmer, June 13, 1917
Louis Kernochan, H. Ray Williams and W. A. Lawrence, of Saranac Lake, have been appointed by the town board of Harrietstown as a commission to determine the places within the town where liquors may be sold the coming year beginning October 1. The number of saloon and hotel licenses will be cut from 15 to 9 under the new excise law. The commission will investigate and determine what applications for license shall be granted and what refused.