Vincent Corey: Difference between revisions

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Born: February 13, 1899

Died: November 24, 1971, Reno, NV

Married: Violet Klempt/Lawrence, Saranac Lake, March 9, 1926

Vincent Corey as a young man. Courtesy of Mary Jean Corey Pagano.

Vincent Corey came to Saranac Lake to cure sometime around November of 1922, and first stayed at 42 Woodruff Street. He was from Brooklyn, and lived in a three-story brownstone with his parents and brothers at 79 Schaeffer Street in Bushwick. He had been exposed to nerve gas during World War I. He later stayed at 52 Park Avenue. He married a showgirl named Violet Klempt (sometimes Lawrence) in Saranac Lake in 1926. They never had any children and eventually divorced. He spent the later years of his life in Reno, Nevada. His brother Herbert P. Corey also came to cure around 1925.

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-[[File:IMG_20200418_0001.jpg|right|thumb||Vincent Corey curing in Saranac Lake. Courtesy of Mary Jean Corey Pagano.]]'''Born: '''February 13, 1899
+[[File:IMG_20200418_0001.jpg|right|thumb|Vincent Corey curing in Saranac Lake. Courtesy of Mary Jean Corey Pagano.]]'''Born: '''February 13, 1899
 '''Died: '''November 24, 1971, Reno, NV
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 '''Married: '''Violet Klempt/Lawrence, Saranac Lake, March 9, 1926
-[[File:image0.jpeg|right|thumb||Vincent Corey as a young man. Courtesy of Mary Jean Corey Pagano.]]'''Vincent Corey '''came to Saranac Lake to cure sometime around November of 1922, and first stayed at [[42%20Woodruff%20Street|42 Woodruff Street]]. He was from Brooklyn, and lived in a three-story brownstone with his parents and brothers at 79 Schaeffer Street in Bushwick. He had been exposed to nerve gas during World War I. He later stayed at [[Witherspoon%2FBryant%20Cottage|52 Park Avenue]]. He married a showgirl named Violet Klempt (sometimes Lawrence) in Saranac Lake in 1926. They never had any children and eventually divorced. He spent the later years of his life in Reno, Nevada. His brother [[Herbert%20P.%20Corey|Herbert P. Corey]] also came to cure around 1925.
+[[File:image0.jpeg|right|thumb|Vincent Corey as a young man. Courtesy of Mary Jean Corey Pagano.]]'''Vincent Corey '''came to Saranac Lake to cure sometime around November of 1922, and first stayed at [[42%20Woodruff%20Street|42 Woodruff Street]]. He was from Brooklyn, and lived in a three-story brownstone with his parents and brothers at 79 Schaeffer Street in Bushwick. He had been exposed to nerve gas during World War I. He later stayed at [[Witherspoon%2FBryant%20Cottage|52 Park Avenue]]. He married a showgirl named Violet Klempt (sometimes Lawrence) in Saranac Lake in 1926. They never had any children and eventually divorced. He spent the later years of his life in Reno, Nevada. His brother [[Herbert%20P.%20Corey|Herbert P. Corey]] also came to cure around 1925.
-[[File:Corey%2C%20Vincent%20-%20TB%20Society%20Report%20of%20a%20Case%20of%20TB%201922.jpg|left|thumb||Report of a case of tuberculosis for Vincent Corey, 1922. Courtesy of the Adirondack Room, SLFL.]]
+[[File:Corey, Vincent - TB Society Report of a Case of TB 1922.jpg|left|thumb|Report of a case of tuberculosis for Vincent Corey, 1922. Courtesy of the Adirondack Room, SLFL.]]