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If you have information on a patient who cured in Saranac Lake that you would like to add, please use the comment box below, or contact [[1]].
Patients whose last names start with: | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z| |
Patient Name | Dates of Birth & Death | Place of Birth/Hometown | Dates in Saranac Lake | Residence in Saranac Lake (post-911 address) | ||
Hilda E. Aass | ![]() |
October 11, 1913 - 1943 | Norway | Daughter of sea captain; buried with the Norwegian sailors in Pine Ridge Cemetery.| | ||
Alfred Abrahamsen | ![]() |
April 9, 1920 - September 13, 1945 | Norway | 1943-1945 | One of the Norwegian Sailors who cured in Saranac Lake during WWII.| | |
Bernard M. Acosta | 1931 - | San Juan, Costa Rica | A photographer who acquired the former William L. Distin studio| | |||
Arturo Alemán | Cuba | Gonzalez Cottage | ||||
Irving Altman | 1900 - post 1980 | New York City | 1922 - 1924 | Evergreen Lodge, Trudeau Sanatorium | After trying to return to the city and having a relapse, he opened Altman's ladies clothing store| | |
Helene A. Anderson | 1941 | Alta Vista Lodge | A dietician and patient at the Alta Vista Lodge, Helene married Camilo Panerai and they bought the Alta Vista, operating it until it burned in 1958.| | |||
Tony Anderson | ![]() |
5/25/1899 - 8/20/1981 | Long Island | 1919 - 1981 | 8 South Hope Street | Manager of the Pontiac Theater and mayor of Saranac Lake for sixteen years.| |
Helen Antalek | Through October 1931 | Will Rogers | ||||
Albert Charles Bagdasarian | ![]() |
April 4th, 1897 - August 27, 1968 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1922 - 1968 | Downing Block, Berkeley House, Hotel Saranac | For 15 years he covered local news for WNBZ. He was devoted to contract bridge.| |
Raymond K. Baker | ![]() |
1881-1944 | Watertown, NY & Washington D.C. | c.1908-1915 | ||
Dr. Edward R. Baldwin | ![]() |
1865 - 1947 | Bethel, Connecticut | c.1891 - 1947 | Trudeau Sanatorium | Close friend of E.L. Trudeau, became Director of Saranac Laboratory| |
Beanie Barnet | ![]() |
1886 - 1977 | Boston, MA | 1907 - 1977 | Trudeau Sanatorium, Ledger Cottage | |
Elizabeth Widmer Barnet | 1902 - 1980 | Berne, Switzerland | ? - 1980 | Trudeau Sanatorium | A graduate of Johns Hopkins Nursing School, She married Beanie Barnet on 6/22/1940 at Camp Intermission| | |
Béla Bartók | ![]() |
March 25, 1881 - September 26, 1945 | Nagyszentmiklós, Austria-Hungary | summers of 1943,'44,'45 | Sageman Cottage, Béla Bartók Cottage | |
Theodora Becker | August 18, 1922 - August 18, 2002 | Lake Grove, Long Island, NY | Gabriels Sanatorium | |||
Wilbur F. Beckett | c. 1868 - Post 1952 | August 1923 - April 1924 | Sageman Cottage | Dr. Bradley Sageman was a child when Beckett was curing at Sageman Cottage| | ||
Manolo Benero | November 19, 1888 - October 9, 1963 | Puerto Rico | 1917 - 1963 | 31 Franklin Avenue | Met and married Pilar Gordon of Cuba. The couple settled in town and raised two sons, hosted many Latin American visitors. Manny worked at the Troy Laundry| | |
Olaf Berge | ![]() |
2/18/1920-2/2/1945 | Norway | One of the Norwegian Sailors that cured in SL during WWII| | ||
Rachel Rae Berger | 1887-1955 | Ringoes, New Jersey | c. 1917 | A cure cottage | ||
John Birmingham | Brooklyn NY | c. 1940s | Trudeau Sanatorium | |||
Ena Aurelia Bontomase | May 6, 1905 - December 16, 1940 | Oswego, New York | ||||
Priscilla Christensen Bergren | Priscilla%20Christensen%20Bergren.jpg.html.jpeg]] | Perth Amboy, New Jersey | early 1930s | Parker's cure cottage | Friend of Louis MacKay, married Walter Bergren, settled in Saranac Lake.| | |
Charlotte Stuart Best | 1870-1931 | Belfast, Ireland | c.1906-1908 | presumably Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Dr. Norman Bethune | ![]() |
March 3, 1890 - November 12, 1939 | Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada | 1926-? | Trudeau Sanatorium worked at New York State Hospital at Ray Brook | |
Louise S. Birk | 1892 - December 21, 1979 | 1918 - 1920 | 6 Elm Street | After her cure, Louise Birk was joined by her husband and their son. They opened Birk's Swiss Chalet on Bloomingdale Road.| | ||
John Baxter Black | ![]() |
1896 - 1923 | Mansfield, Ohio | July, 1918 - May, 1923 | 112 Park Ave. | WWI Officer, Family built the John Black Room at the Saranac Laboratory in his memory.| |
Sidney Blanchet | ![]() |
June 4, 1882 - November 12, 1937 | Canada | Early 1900s | Trudeau Sanatorium | Sidney Blanchet was studying medicine when he was diagnosed with TB. After his cure, he completed his degree and then returned to Trudeau as a member of the staff, working closely with Dr. Lawrason Brown, and directing the operations of the Sanatorium for a time.| |
George S. Brewster | New York City | 1904 - | Brewster served on the board of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and later as secretary and treasurer.| | |||
Tony Brescia | January 1, 1915 - July 11, 1963 | New York | c. 1942-1963 | Ray Brook Sanatorium | ||
Bill Brown | ![]() |
Montreal, Canada | c. 1933 | Bill Brown was a friend of Louis Mackay.| | ||
Georgia Watson Lee Brown | 3/5/1906-10/19/1935 | Thomson, GA | 1934-1935 | Smithwick Cottage | ||
Dr. Lawrason Brown | ![]() |
September 29, 1871 - December 26, 1937 | Baltimore, Maryland | c. 1898 - 1937 | Trudeau Sanatorium | Resident Physician at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and an internationally known TB specialist| |
Dr. Daniel Brumfiel | ![]() |
January 20 - August 20, 1958 | Fayette County, Indiana | 1925 | Trudeau Sanatorium | After his recovery, he practiced medicine for two years with Dr. Francis B. Trudeau, Sr.; he lived the rest of his life in Saranac Lake.| |
Mary Acheson Bundy | Washington, DC | mid-1940s | 29 Church Street | |||
Ernie Burnett | ![]() |
12/19/1884 - 9/11/1959 | Cincinnati, Ohio | 1944 - 1959 | Fallon Cottage Annex | Vaudeville performer and accomplished composer. Famous for the song, [Melancholy Baby"]| |
Esther Capone | ![]() |
4/28/1900 - 10/23/1986 | Solvay, New York | 1928 - 1942 | Ray Brook San | Esther Sullivan worked as a stenographer/typist for Emmett Dobbs in Washington, D.C. During her cure, she met her husband to be, Thomas Capone.| |
Thomas Capone | ![]() |
5/6/1893 - 1/16/1970 | Rocco Ste. Felice, Italy | 1925 - 1941 | Ray Brook San | |
Keith Carr | 1856 - 1904 | Scotland | 1898, 1900 - 1904 | Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium, 22 Bloomingdale Avenue and 104 Main Street | After Carr's death, his wife Emma Carr became a respected cure cottage operator.| | |
Asunción Castro | c.1890-1924 | Spain | 1924 | Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium | ||
Ida Mannhart Chadikian | ![]() |
January 1, 1880 - January 1, 1929 | Switzerland | 1926- | St. Mary's Hospital | |
Roy Chamberlain | ||||||
Donald Mott Chapin | ![]() |
March 19, 1909 - March 25, 1986 | Niagara Falls, New York | 1926 - 1930s | Mott Chapin became a potter and a civic leader, who was deeply involved in the Saranac Lake Free Library, Rotary Club, and the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild.| | |
Elise Kalb Chapin | ![]() |
June 21, 1913 - July 14, 2009 | Catonsville, Maryland | 1935 | 68 Franklin Avenue, Smithwick Cottage, Knabe Cottage, Fraser Cottage | Elise Chapin married Mott Chapin, and together they ran the Pot Shop in the 1950s. She was active with the Village Improvement Society, the General Hospital, St. Luke's Church and the Saranac Lake Free Library.| |
John Paul Clancy | Mid 1920s | Trudeau Sanatorium | After his cure, he bought what became known as the Clancy Cottage, which catered mostly to Italian patients, as Clancy's wife, Lena, spoke Italian. There were 38 patients.| | |||
William Clements | ![]() |
9/9/1919 - 1/22/1962 | Glasgow, Scotland | 1947 - | Ray Brook Sanatorium | |
Alexander S. Cochran | ![]() |
1874 - June 20, 1929 | Yonkers, New York | 147 Park Avenue | ||
Edith Kostyk Cole | Stony Wold Sanatorium | Cole later worked at Gabriels Sanatorium and Will Rogers Hospital| | ||||
Robert H. Coleman | March 27, 1856 - 1930 | Savannah, Georgia | 1896-1930 | 33 Church Street | Coleman was a bankrupt and tubercular iron magnate from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, owner of the [Iron Furnace]| | |
Edith Elliott Johnstone Coleman | died of TB in 1903 | 1896 - 1903 | 33 Church Street|
The wife of bankrupt and tubercular iron magnate from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, owner of the [Iron Furnace]| | |||
Bess Comstock | May 31, 1884 | January 12, 1937 | Rome, NY | ~1920-1927 | Santanoni Apartments | Bess' illness and its effect on her family are the subject of a memoir, In The Shadow of the White Plague, by her daughter, Elizabeth Mooney.| |
Henry J. Conley | - April 16, 1935 | Brooklyn, New York | 1905 | Gabriels Sanatorium | After curing at Gabriels he returned to Brooklyn, but in 1907 he again came to the Adirondacks and opened a funeral home on Bloomingdale avenue.| | |
Marc Cook | 1879 - 1880 | Osgood Pond | ||||
Herbert P. Corey | September 11, 1901 - November 9, 1933 | Brooklyn, New York | 1925 - ? | Grossman Cottage and 57 Bloomingdale Ave. | ||
Vincent Corey | February 13, 1899 - November 24, 1971 | Brooklyn, New York | 1922 - ? | 42 Woodruff St. and 52 Park Ave. | Vincent Corey worked as a clerk and lived in Brooklyn prior to coming to cure in 1922. He married a showgirl in Saranac Lake. His brother Herbert also came to Saranac Lake to cure.| | |
William L. Coulter | 1865 - 1907 | Norwich, Connecticut | 1896 - 1907 | 38 Shepard Avenue and 34 Shepard Ave (residences) | Architect, Partner of Max Westhoff in Coulter & Westhoff| | |
Adelaide Crapsey | ![]() |
September 9, 1878 - October 8, 1914 | Brooklyn, New York | 1913 - 1914 | 71 Clinton Avenue | |
Edwin Charles Cushman Jr | died Nov, 1907 | Bar Harbor, Maine | c.1904-1907 | |||
John Theodore Dalton | ![]() |
1899-1927 | 1923-1927 | Ludington Infirmary, Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Elizabeth Jessie Dawe | September 12, 1926 - | Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Canada | 1944 | 84 Park Avenue, 58 Riverside Drive | ||
John De Giovanni | ![]() |
October 29, 1904 - July 16, 1939 | New York City | 1936-1939 | Will Rogers Memorial Hospital | |
Eddie Diamond | June 9, 1902 - January 14, 1930 | January 8, 1929 - January 14, 1930 | 6 Shepard Avenue | |||
Anthony di Bona | 1929 - | Trudeau Sanatorium | Di Bona was a sculptor and artist who helped to organize the Saranac Lake Art League, serving as its president for many years.| | |||
Mili Distin | c. 1920 - February 3, 2011 | Glen Cove, Long Island | mid-1940s | After her cure, she married William G. Distin, Jr., and helped him manage the sawmill and construction business, Branch and Callanan from 1953 until 1993, and the Distin Boat Company. In 1980, they hosted VIPs for the Winter Olympics| | ||
Juan Dobal Zarza | ![]() |
October 21, 1893 - February 23, 1920 | Havana, Cuba | May 12, 1913 - June 5, 1914 | Rumenapp Cottage | |
Alfred L. Donaldson | ![]() |
1866 - 1923 | New York City | 1895 - 1923 | 30 Church Street | A banker turned historian, he wrote the first History of the Adirondacks, in two volumes.| |
J. Cloyd Downs | ![]() |
11/6/1885 - 12/1958 | Niagara Falls, New York | 1923-1955 | 11 Kiwassa | |
Larry Doyle | ![]() |
July 31, 1886 - March 1, 1974 | Caseyville, Illinois | 1942 - 1954 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
Hyman Drutz | 1886 - 1941 | New York City | 1926 - ? | Opened Drutz Market, he was cured| | ||
George W. Drymalski | ![]() |
1915 - 1998 | Chicago, Illinois | July 1941 - October 1943 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
George V. W. Duryee | - 1912 | Duryee was a real estate agent who organized the Saranac Lake Free Library, and later founded the Meadowbrook Farm, a successful dairy operation at Ray Brook| | ||||
Percy Eastment | None | died 1929 | Glen Cove, Long Island | 1925-1929 | "Saranac Hotel" | A publisher from Long Island, he died in S.L. of TB and was buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery| |
Helen Jacobson Effenbach | June 24, 1890 - June 25, 1926 | New York City | 1926 - ? | |||
Edward Edgar | ![]() |
May 31, 1854 - June 19, 1875 | 1874 - 1875 | Main Street Mrs. Lucius "Lute" Evans Boarding House | ||
Dr. Seymour Emans | New York City | Dr. Emans was the founding medical superintendent at the Rainbow Sanatorium.| | ||||
NoneRobert Farrell | May 17, 1930 | Saranac Lake | 1947 - | Ray Brook State Hospital | ||
Sadie Ferguson | ![]() |
1930s | We know little about her; she was a friend of Louis Mackay.| | |||
Maurice Feustmann | 1870-1943 | 1890s | Maurice Feustmann was an architect; together with William Scopes he designed many of Saranac Lake's most notable buildings.| | |||
Frank L. Fisher | - May 23, 1895 | New York, New York | A house on Lake Colby | |||
Irving Fisher | ![]() |
February 27, 1867 - April 29, 1947 | Saugerties, New York | 1898 - c.1900 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
John R. Freer | 1876 - May 16, 1961 | Kingston, New York | Trudeau Sanatorium | Freer became president of the Adirondack National Bank.| | ||
Charlotte Gallery | None | 1930s | ||||
Daniel Gallery | Fall River, Massachusetts | 1930s | Daniel Gallery was a thoracic surgeon who came to Saranac Lake to cure. He met Charlotte Gallery while here for curing, and they married.| | |||
Alice Sterling French Gallup | ![]() |
11/27/1989 - c.1960 | Austin, PA | 1917-1960 | Trudeau Sanatorium and 4 Circle Street (residence) | |
Dr. Leroy Upson Gardner | ![]() |
December 9, 1888 - October 24, 1946 | Meriden, Connecticut | 1917-1946 | 36 Old Military Road (residence) | Director of the Saranac Laboratory. Lived on Old Military Road.| |
Anton Gedroiz | 1883-1945 | Detroit, Michigan | 1919-1945 | 112 Lake Street | ||
Irving Gershenz | New York City | - c. 1930 | ||||
Dr. Samuel Howard Gilliland | 1878-1929 | Marietta, PA | 1920s? | |||
Alfredo Gonzalez | 1903 - 1965 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1920 - 1960s | Operated Cure Cottages for Latin American patients, the best known being 80 Park Avenue.| | ||
Alicia Gonzalez | Alicia Milanes del Prado married Alfredo Gonzalez; over the next forty years the couple would operate several cure cottage catering to Latin American patients, the largest and longest-running one at 80 Park Avenue.| | |||||
Mary R. Gordon | ||||||
Richard Gould | ![]() |
8/2/1916 - 10/2004 | Vermont | 1947-1949 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
George Washington Gray | - 1936 | Richmond Hill, New York | 1930s | Came to Saranac Lake for the cure.| | ||
Charlie Green | ![]() |
March 23, 1894 - January 13, 1987 | Lancashire, England | Green operated Charlie Green's Market on Main Street for more than sixty years, becoming a beloved figure; he was given the Good Neighbor Award in 1969, and named Citizen of the Year in 1977.| | ||
LeRoy A. Grinnell | June 24, 1908 - July 21, 2004 | Hudson Falls, New York | 1934 - 1936 | After recovering his health in 1936, Grinnell began working at the Trudeau Sanatorium in the pulmonary function lab, where he worked until the San closed in 1954.| | ||
William H. Haase | ![]() |
September 12, 1866 - March 20, 1913 | St. Louis, Missouri | 1903 - March 20, 1913 | McCarthy Cottage, Riverside Inn, Pinehurst | Haase was the heir of the A.C.L Haase Company; he built Pinehurst and the Haase Block, and was active in community affairs.| |
Helen Hoeschele Haley | February 1, 1891 - February 14, 1932 | Utica, NY | 1920s-1930s | Ray Brook Sanatorium | Helen and her twin sister Mary both had tuberculosis and were treated at Ray Brook. Both died from TB in the 1930s.| | |
Kathleen McFarlane Hammond | - 1917 | Gananoque, Ontario | Santanoni Apartments, Morgan Cottage | c. 1916 | ||
John Harlander | 1893-March 1922 | Rome, NY | 1914-1915 | Reception Hospital, potentially Yorkey Cottage | ||
Evelyn Bellak Hayes | August 20, 2901 - March 12, 1932 | Endicott, NY | 1917 - c.1925 | Ray Brook Hospital | ||
Hunter C. Haynes | ![]() |
1867 - 1918 | October 27, 1916 until April 23, 1917 | [Lake Flower Street] | ||
Gerald Haxton | 1892 - 1944 | San Francisco, California | Alta Vista | Gerald Haxton was the secretary and companion of W. Somerset Maugham.| | ||
Bernard Stephen Heaney | December 18, 1881 - December 29, 1920 | Rochester, New York | c. 1920 | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Morris Hillquit | ![]() |
1869 - 1933 | born in Latvia, he moved to New York City | 1919 | ||
Mary "Mayme" Hoeschele | February 1, 1891 - January 27, 1938 | Utica, NY | c. 1916 | Ray Brook Sanatorium | Came to Ray Brook from Utica. Her twin sister Helen was also treated. Both died of TB at home in Utica in the 1930s.| | |
Lizzie Howard | ?- 1905 | |||||
Henry J. Hudson | 1887 - September 14, 1956 | Stamford, Connecticut | With his wife, Hudson founded the Franklin Manor| | |||
Harry Hull | 1888 - 1958 | Lebanon Springs, New York | 1907 - c. 1908, 1912 - | 18 Lake Street | After a relapse and a second cure, Harry Hull became the Village Engineer, and his wife ran the Riddle Cottage.| | |
Alice Hunt | New York City | 1885 | Little Red | Alice and Mary Hunt were sisters from New York City; they were the first two patients of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium| | ||
Mary Hunt | New York City | 1885 | Little Red | Alice and Mary Hunt were sisters from New York City; they were the first two patients of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium| | ||
Duke Huntington | ![]() |
1930s | 2 Broadway Ave. | After his recovery, Duke Huntington stayed in Saranac Lake and soldjuke boxes, pinball and shuffleboard machines. He was a friend of Louis MacKay.| | ||
Arnout Hyde | c. 1910 - | West Virginia | 1944-'45 | 5 Shepard Avenue | ||
Mary Ingersoll | None | 1905 - 1964 | Dallas, Texas | Mary E. Ingersoll was a literary agent who represented authors Walter Farley and Martha Reben.| | ||
Edwin J. Johnson | ![]() |
1904 - | Esperance House | We know very little about Edwin Johnson, but he left some intriguing photographs. (here)| | ||
David Blair Jones | 9/27/1891 - 8/1955 | Chicago, IL | c. 1929-1944 | Clara Black Cottage, 86 1/2 Park Avenue | ||
Lincoln Jones | ? - 1906 | 1904 - 1906 | Lincoln Jones owned a garment shop in Manhattan. When he found he had TB he moved to Saranac Lake bringing young Sam Edelberg with him. When he died, he left the shop to Edelberg.| | |||
Susan Kosa Jordan | 1950s | 34 Franklin Avenue | ||||
Jack Kenney | ![]() |
4/20/1904 - 7/2/1931 | Brooklyn, New York | July,1930 - July,1931 | McCabe Cottage | |
Jacob Kesner | 9/15/1898-6/15/57 | New York, New York | 1927 | |||
Dr. Hugh M. Kinghorn | ![]() |
August 9 1869 - November 7, 1957 | Ontario, Canada | July 1896 - June 1897 | Trudeau Sanatorium | Dr. Kinghorn was known as a staunch supporter of absolute bedrest. He lived and had offices at 14 Church Street.| |
Elsie Steiner Kodim | ![]() |
November 15, 1892 - July 18, 1981 | Freiberg, Germany | 1919 - July 18, 1981 | Stony Wold Sanatorium, 26 Cedar Street, Jackson Cottage, 8 Virginia Street, Carson Cottage | |
Joseph Kodim, Sr. | March 9, 1883 - May 17, 1933 | Grunau, Austria | November 8, 1926 - May 17, 1933 | 26 Cedar Street, Jackson Cottage, 8 Virginia Street, Carson Cottage | ||
William F. Kollecker | ![]() |
April 15, 1879 - August 12, 1962 | Brooklyn, New York | 1896 - 1904 | 64 Shepard Avenue | Kollecker was a photographer, whose legacy of thousands of photographs of the Saranac Lake area was nearly lost when he died. What remains is in the Saranac Lake Free Library| |
Thea LaGuardia | ![]() |
c. 1895 - November 29, 1921 | Trieste, Italy | May - November 1929 | 76 Park Avenue | Thea LaGuardia was the young wife of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; she died of tuberculosis at the age of 27.| |
Dan Landes | London, England | Santanoni Apartments | ||||
Alfred Larsen | November 15, 1913 - March 2, 1988 | Norway | Sageman Cottage | One of the Norwegian sailors sent to cure during WWII, Larsen returned years later to marry the tray girl he had met at the Sageman Cottage.| | ||
Eileen Leavitt | ![]() |
April, 1912 - November 21, 1991 | Derby, Connecticut | 1947-1949 | Stony Wold Sanatorium | |
Dr. Henry Leetch | ![]() |
11/5/1895-4/20/1970 | Washington D.C. | 1929 - 1965 | 5 Shepard Avenue | |
Henry P. Leis | ![]() |
June 18, 1869 - July 20, 1971 | New York City | 1899 - 1901 | 33 Algonquin Avenue | Leis built The Governor hotel with his brother, George Leis, and then Henry P. Leis Pianos at 3-5 Bloomingdale Avenue.| |
Helen Potter Lewis | ![]() |
1905-1987 | Evanston, Illinois | 1931-1935 | various cure cottages | The Training Director of Filene's Dept. Store in Boston, Helen came to SL for the cure, where she met her husband, Kirby S. Howlett, Jr.| |
Dr. Esmond R. Long | ![]() |
1890 - 1979 | Near Chicago, Illinois | 1918 - 1919 | ||
Eva Long | ![]() |
1906-1931 | Nottingham, England | 1927-1929 | Reception Hospital | |
Dr. Alfred Loomis | 1831 - 1895 | New York City | 1867 | Dr. Loomis recovered from TB during a trip to the Adirondacks in 1867; he met Dr. E. L. Trudeau at Paul Smith's hotel and became his physician.| | ||
Carl Sofus Lumholtz | ![]() |
1851 - May 4, 1922 | Faberg (Lillehammer), Norway | 50 Baker Street | ||
Rev. John Lundy | 1823 - | Danville Pennsylvania | 1877-78 | Berkeley Hotel | His preaching at the Berkeley Hotel led to the creation of St. Luke's Church. Later he wrote disparagingly of Saranac Lake.| | |
Rev. Hiram W. Lyon | ![]() |
1925 - | The Reverend Hiram W. Lyon was the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Saranac Lake from 1926 to 1937.| | |||
Patrick Raymond MacDermot | ![]() |
1903 - 1946 | Galway, Ireland and London | 1944 - 1946 | 88 Riverside Drive, at 5 Birch Street, on Park Avenue, and at 9 Rockledge Road | Patrick MacDermot was a patient of Drs. Brumfiel, J. Woods Price, and Edward Welles.| |
Louis Mackay | ![]() |
July 30, 1906 - July 12, 1973 | Norwalk, Connecticut | approx.1930 - 1936 | Mrs. Witherbee's, Lawrence's, Carey's, Parker's | Friend of Ralph (Duke) Huntington and Priscilla Christensen Bergren"| |
Gustav Martin | ![]() |
December 5, 1910 - February 25, 1967 | Seattle, Washington | Gustav Martin was a noted medical researcher who went on to work at Johns Hopkins after his "cure".| | ||
Christy Mathewson | ![]() |
1880 - 1925 | Factoryville, Pennsylvania | 1920 - 1925 | Santanoni Apartments, Christy Mathewson Cottage | |
Thomas O. May | Washington, D.C. | 1918 | Berkeley Hotel | |||
D. Lorne McGibbon | November 24, 1870 - April 20, 1927 | Montreal, Quebec | 1908 - | McGibbon became the chief benefactor of [Quebec] and of tuberculosis treatment in Canada generally.| | ||
Patrick J. McKeown | ![]() |
1899 - July 11, 1929 | Astoria, NYC | 1928-1929 | 26 Church Street | |
William McLaughlin | August 14, 1917 - 1986 | Saranac Lake, New York | ||||
Dennis McMahon | 1875 | Ensine Miller's house, Sunnyside | ||||
Daisietta McClellan | 1890s | Dr. McClellan House | Daisietta's tuberculosis brought Dr. Ezra McClellan to Saranac Lake. After his death in 1911, his daughters sold the last few parcels of the land he had acquired in the Park Avenue area.| | |||
Dr. Gordon Meade | ![]() |
December 9, 1905 - November 30, 1990 | Rochester, New York | 1932-33, 1937-1938 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
Jed Scott Merrill | - 1888 | Jed Merrill's early death from tuberculosis led his brother Elmer M. Merrill to establish the Merrillsville Cure Cottage| | ||||
Frank Westley Merritt | September 12, 1910 - January 15, 1997 | Brooklyn, New York | at least 1930 - 1935 | Ecenbarger Cottage | Frank Merritt graduated from the Saranac Lake High School having taken his courses in bed as a patient of Dr. Edward Packard. He became the head of the English department at Bucknell University.| | |
Joseph Messing | 1886 - November 27, 1925 | Poland | June 1925 | |||
Jennie Meyers | Plainfield, NJ | 1930 and 1945 | Altavista Lodge in 1945|
Mrs. Meyers cured twice in Saranac Lake. Her TB card in the Adirondack Room archives was found by her grandson on a visit to Saranac Lake.| | |||
Isobel Millen | February 15, 1894 - June 24, 1976 | Montreal, QC | Arrived May 16, 1908. | Pearse Cottage | Came to Saranac Lake at the age of 14 and stayed for 6-8 months under the care of Dr. Kinghorn. Continued care back at home in Montreal.| | |
Frank G. Miller | 1929 - September 24, 1972 | Saranac Lake | 1929-1971 | Ray Brook State Hospital | Frank Miller operated a dental laboratory at 29 Bloomingdale Avenue.| | |
Helen O'Reilly Miller | c. 1900 - May 10, 1978 | 1920s-1930s | Will Rogers | |||
William Minshull | 1865 - October 2, 1924 | New York City | In 1897 with two other TB patients, he formed the Adirondack National Bank.| | |||
George Jarvis Mirick | ![]() |
died May 27, 1916 | Palmyra, New York | |||
Jean Monahan | Patient at Stony Wold Sanatorium, friend of Eileen Leavitt| | |||||
Dominic Morabito | ![]() |
August 4, 1904 - May 8, 1988 | Brooklyn, New York | c. 1938 - c. 1945 | New York State Hospital at Ray Brook | Mr. Morabito cured with Richard H. Ray and appears in his book. He may have cured as long as 7 years.| |
William Morris | ![]() |
1873 - November 2, 1932 | Vienna, Austria | 1902 - 1906 | Algonquin Hotel | William Morris was a theatrical agent who founded the William Morris Agency; he represented Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson. He later built Camp Intermission| |
Hattie Bishop Hussey Morse | November 8, 1862 - July 29, 1897 | Brooklyn, NY | c. 1897 | Hattie Bishop Hussey Morse was the wife of [W. Morse].| | ||
Frank Edward Mueller | August 24, 1923 - | Littleton, Massachusetts | September 1960 - November 1961 | Gabriels Sanatorium | ||
Florence Mulhern | ![]() |
New York City | early 1950s | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Elmer Mundy | ||||||
Patrick Murphy | October 18, 1920 - January 30, 1937 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | May 1935 - January 30, 1937 | Steel Camp, 29 Church Street, Lower St. Regis Lake, Rumsey Cottage | ||
Ernest Malcolm Myatt | ![]() |
March 28, 1888 - March 16, 1914 | Raleigh, North Carolina | 11 Park Place | c. 1913 | |
James McRae Myatt | April 22, 1894 - August 22, 1912 | Raleigh, North Carolina | 11 Park Place? | c. 1913 | ||
Edwin Bernard Nagle | November 13, 1879 - August, 1919 | Minnesota | 1918-1919 | 9 Church Street | ||
Dr. Frederick L. Neely | None | Dr. Neely came to Saranac Lake for the cure and married Magaret Gardner, the daughter of LeRoy Upson Gardner| | ||||
John F. Neilson | - 1899 | With two other TB patients, John Neilson founded the Adirondack National Bank in 1897.| | ||||
Aaron S.R. Newmark | A patient at the Trudeau Sanatorium, father of patient, Helen M. Sandhaus| | |||||
Dr. Joseph Nichols | ![]() |
November 10, 1870 - June 17, 1918 | Cincinnati, Ohio | c. 1903 | Dr. Nichols served as secretary of the T.B. Society and as president of the General Hospital.| | |
Dick Norton | Harvard University | 1952 | New York State Hospital at Ray Brook | The boyfriend of Sylvia Plath, fictionalized as Buddy in The Bell Jar, she visited him here and broke her leg while skiing on Mount Pisgah.| | ||
Paul Ludwig Ott | None | 1879 - 1910 | Ohio | ? - 1910 | Died in Saranac Lake while attempting a cure.| | |
Dr. Edward Packard | None | 1883 - November 16, 1968 | Dorchester, Massachusetts | 1912 - | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
Carl Palmer | Pink Palace | Carl Palmer was the son of newspaper magnate C. M. Palmer, who moved to Saranac Lake for Carl's cure.| | ||||
Edward Parrott | 1875 - 1944 | New York City | 1898 | |||
Mary Kelly Parry | 1918-1984 | Jackson Heights, New York | 1941-1955 | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Camilo Panerai | 8/9/1910-1991 | Havana, Cuba | 1933-1934, 1941-1991 | 144 Main Street | Trained as an architect in Cuba. He and his wife Helene A. Anderson owned the Alta Vista Lodge from 1941-1958| | |
Cornelia Panos | 1897m - November 28, 1924||Greece||1920||15 Jenkins Street, 4 Riverside Drive, 4 Kiwassa Road|| | | |||||
Walker Percy | ![]() |
May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990 | Birmingham, Alabama | c.1941-c.1945 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
Edna Caroline Petotte | July 29, 1924 - December 26, 1975 | Parishville | 1930s | Ray Brook Sanatorium | Edna Petotte was a laboratory technician at Ray Brook after her recovery. She married James E. LaPan.| | |
Joseph Peter Pohl | October 8, 1884 - March 26, 1924 | Schenectady, NY | 1919-1924 | His wife Mildred May Helms Pohl ran a laundry service for TB patients in the 1930's and early-1940's. Joseph had 2 sons and 3 grandchildren who grew up in Saranac Lake.| | ||
Mary Poppick | c. 1900 | Jermyn, Pennsylvania | c. 1933 | Trudeau Sanatorium, 1 Pine Street | ||
Mary Prescott | ![]() |
October 12, 1871 - January 7, 1961 | New Bedford, Massachusetts | 1895 - 1950s | 40 Shepard Avenue, 38 Shepard Avenue | She built and funded the Reception Hospital, and donated the land for Prescott Park| |
Dr. J. Woods Price | ![]() |
1877 - 1951 | Virginia | Early 1900s - 1951 | 116 Main Street | He was president of the Reception Hospital for more than 17 years.| |
Manuel Quezon | None | August 19, 1878 - August 1, 1944 | The Philippines | 1944 | Camp Massapequa | |
Richard H. Ray | None | 1937-1940 | A private cottage on Pine Street, Trudeau Sanatorium, Ray Brook Sanatorium | Richard Ray learned photography while a patient here; he went on to become a professional medical photographer, and wrote a memoir: Saranac 1937-1940| | ||
Martha Reben | ![]() |
1911 - 1964 | New York City | 1927 - 1964 | Trudeau Sanatorium, Weller Pond | |
Ortanza Redinger | b.1886 | Pennsylvania | c.1912 | Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium | ||
Thomas F. Reilly | ![]() |
b.1915 | Queens, NY | 1969 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |
Branch Rickey | ![]() |
December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965 | Stockdale, Ohio | 1908-1909 | ||
Daniel W. Riddle | ![]() |
1833 - June 8, 1913 | 1879 - | Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium | Riddle became the Sanitarium's first treasurer; he built the Franklin Manor, and managed the Saranac Inn for 25 years.| | |
Fred Bernhardt Roedel | 2/4/1890 - 8/6/1938 | Greitz, Germany/ Clifton, New Jersey | Three years curing as young man | 93 Riverside Drive | Fred Roedel was an engineer and poultry farmer, husband of Pearl Maria Gould| | |
Dr. Cordt E. Rose | Dr. Rose was an anesthesiologist who lived at 170 Park Avenue.| | |||||
William Richard Rosevear | ![]() |
June 3, 1896 - December 19, 1945 | Haverigg, England / Endicott, NY | sometime between 1940-1945 | ||
George C. Sageman | None | 1877 - 1930 | Chicago, Illinois | 8 Franklin Avenue, Saranac Inn|
After his cure, Sageman worked for Branch and Callanan, and his wife ran a well-regarded cure cottage at 32 Park Avenue.| | ||
Lucy Sandella | - January 11, 1937 | late 1930s | ||||
Helen M. Sandhaus | 1923 - 2009 | Lancaster, PA | Trudeau Sanatorium | |||
William H. Scopes | 1877 - 1964 | 1896 - | Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium | William Scopes was an architect. With partner Maurice Feustmann he designed many of Saranac Lakes most notable buildings.| | ||
Isabel Shaw | - February 26, 1926 | Jay, New York | c. 1923 | Lane Cottage | ||
Dr. Norman Shefrin | ![]() |
1907 - 1996 | Brooklyn, New York | late 1940s - ? | Trudeau Sanatorium | Dr. Shefrin stayed on after his cure and worked on the medical staff at Ray Brook Sanatorium.| |
Helen Yacishyn Simeone | 1910-1939 | White Plains, New York | 1939 | Saranac Lake General Hospital | ||
Dwight S. Simpson | 1883-1962 | New York City | 1916-1919 | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Carol Smith | ![]() |
Late 1940s | Stony Wold Sanatorium | Carol Smith was a friend of Eileen Leavitt.| | ||
Isabel Smith | - January 19, 1958 | 1928-1948 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |||
Madeline Smith | ||||||
Christian Sporck | ![]() |
1892 - 1985 | Brooklyn, New York | Reception Hospital | The Sporck family remained in Saranac Lake, operating a taxi stand and grocery store on River Street and then a motel on Lake Flower Avenue.| | |
William Stearns | - June 6, 1983 | 1926 - 1930 | William Stearns returned to Saranac Lake six years after his cure and became the director of the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild for twenty years.| | |||
William Steenken | April 24, 1901 - October 2, 1983 | Brooklyn, New York | 1925 - 1983 | William Steenken after his cure went to work for the Trudeau Foundation| | ||
Robert Louis Stevenson | ![]() |
11/13/1850 - 12/3/1894 | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1887 - 1888 | Stevenson Cottage | |
Edwin R. Stonaker | 1907 - 1910 | Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium | Stonaker was the president of Northern New York Telephone. He and his wife designed the Stonaker Cottage in Glenwood. He was a founder of the Saranac Lake Golf Club.| | |||
Robert M. Stover | May 27, 1917 - May 5, 1995 | Irvington, New York | 1940 to 1942 | |||
LaVerne Strough | Dolgeville, New York | 1911 - c. 1927 | ||||
Harry Sullivan | New York, New York | born 1881/2 | In 1920 was a TB patient living at 77 Algonquin Avenue| | |||
E. Hallie Sutton | 1902-1939 | Buffalo, New York | 1926 - 1939 | Freer Cottage | ||
Samuel D. Telford | May 25, 1898-December 28, 1924 | North Hoosick, NY | Ray Brook State Hospital | |||
Anthony Treybal | ![]() |
1889 - 1935 | Queens, New York | c. 1927 to 1934 | Baker Street | |
Dr. Charles C. Trembley | ![]() |
September 17, 1873 - October 20, 1957 | Utica, New York | 1900 - | Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium|
After his cure, Dr. Trembley practiced medicine in Saranac Lake for more than fifty years. He was know for his story telling and practical jokes.| | |
Mary Trombino | January 15, 1923 - March 18, 2018 | Brooklyn, New York | 1940-1942 | Ray Brook Sanatorium | ||
Denis Troy | New York City | 1930's | Ray Brook Sanatorium | |||
Peter Troy | New York City | 1930's | Ray Brook Sanatorium | |||
Thomas Troy | New York City | 1930's | Ray Brook Sanatorium | |||
Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau | ![]() |
1848 - 1915 | New York City | 1870s - 1915 | 118 Main Street | Founder of the Trudeau Sanatorium and Saranac Laboratory| |
Jack Valdez | NoneNone | |||||
Jeanette Valdez | ||||||
James Roosevelt Waldron | ![]() |
December 20, 1902-July 31, 1970 | Newark, New Jersey | 1928-1954 | Hudson Cottage, Noyes Cottage | A building contractor, Waldron cured in the village and rented a house in Glenwood through the 1950s.| |
Ethel Mae Walsh | October 28, 1893 - July 29, 1988 | New York City | 1909 - | |||
Thomas P. Ward | March 22, 1898 - February, 1982 | Before 1922 | Fallon Cottage | |||
James M. Wardner | ![]() |
1831 - 1904 | Keeseville, New York | 1854 - 1855 | Osgood Pond | James Wardner was one of the first consumptives to cure in the Adirondacks. He went on to found the successful Rainbow Inn on Rainbow Lake.| |
Arthur Wareham | ![]() |
June 26, 1914 - March 10, 2005 | Yardley, Pennsylvania | January 13, 1943 - March 10, 2005 | Shults Cottage, Agnew Cottage | He was an architect who became William G. Distin's partner starting in 1950. He designed the Trudeau Institute.| |
Henry William Wehrle | December 15, 1889 - October 14, 1926 | Utica, New York | 1925-26 | 28 Front Street | Henry Wehrle was a brakeman for the New York Central; he came for the cure and died in Saranac Lake.| | |
William Weiss | - c. 1925 | New York, New York | c. 1925 | |||
Edith R. Schultz Welton | ![]() |
Jan 1887-circa 1928 | Brooklyn, New York | 1926-27 | Alta Vista Lodge | |
Max Westhoff |
October 13, 1874- 1951||Brooklyn, New York||1902-1917||406 Park Avenue||Architect, partner of W. L. Coulter in Coulter & Westhoff.| | |||||
Edwin A. White | c. 1901 - ? | Brooklyn, New York | 1930 - ? | 72 Park Avenue | Edwin White's "cure" was not successful; he never returned home.| | |
Joseph Wiedenmayer | c. 1905 | 1952-53 | Trudeau Sanatorium | |||
James Forbes Williams | c. 1907 - 1960 | Wisconsin | c. 1949 | |||
Emanuel Wolinsky | born 9/23/1917 | New York City | 1941-1943,1946-1958 | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Marjorie Claster Wolinsky | born March 9, 1918 | Lock Haven, Pennsylvania | 1939-1958 | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Benjamin William Woodburn | 1884-1962 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1905 | |||
Juanita Hayman Worthington | ||||||
Ed Worthington | ![]() |
October 2, 1909 - September 24, 1996 | Dansville, New York | 1934 - | Trudeau Sanatorium | Worthington met his wife, a nurse, while curing. He was active in rehabilitation activities such as radio, and later taught at the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild.| |
Robert L. Yeager | 1907 - 1988 | Mineral Wells, Texas | mid-1930s | Trudeau Sanatorium | ||
Edward R. Young | NoneNoneNone | - 1911 | Late 1890s | Trudeau Sanatorium | Young was an insurance agent who wrote policies for the Winter Carnival's Ice Palaces. Later, he was vice-president of the Adirondack National Bank| | |
The nurses of the D. Ogden Mills Training School for Nurses |

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2011-06-03 08:40:23 I am trying to find out information about my Grandfather, Edwin White who died of Tuberculosis in early 1930s. We only know that he was sent to a sanotarium in Upstate New York. —71.125.0.119
- Hello — the librarian in the Saranac Lake Free Library archives checked and found 4 records for Edwin White! Please email me at [[4]] and I can send you the information.
2011-09-03 16:15:43 Please add: George Washington Drymalski - patient at Trudeau from July 1941 - October 1943. Resident of Chicago, Illinois. At the time of entry he was 26 years old and a medical student at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. After leaving Trudeau, he resumed his medical residency and became a radiologist. He married Cecil Jordan in February of 1945. They eventually settled in a northwest suburb of Chicago, (Northbrook), which was then very rural. They had 9 children, 8 of whom grew up, and 7 of whom are still living. Dr. Drymalski suffered a relapse of TB in the 1950s when he and Cecil had 3 or 4 children. He was quarantined at Cook County Hospital and had a lung collapsed or removed entirely. He worked at Resurrection Hospital for most of his medical career, until he retired in the 1980s. He died peacefully in his sleep, perhaps of heart failure, in February, 1998, just a few weeks short of his 83rd birthday. He rarely talked about Saranac or Trudeau, but wrote letters during his stay there. It is clear that he was changed by his experience at Trudeau, being transformed from a city boy to a country gentleman; he loved being outdoors, especially in the North Woods of Wisconsin where he and his family frequently vacationed and fished. He also read x rays, pro bono, for the TB society in Chicago. He left all his children with an appreciation and love of the outdoors, a love of reading and of handcrafts, such as woodworking. —71.126.185.238
- Thanks! The entry is done. If you have a photo you would like to add, please email me at [[5]].
2011-09-25 13:37:23 I am trying to find out some information on my Aunt who had TB and was treated I believe at Saranac Lake for 2 or 3 years as a child. Her name was Dorothy M Watt born about 1905. I was told she had some "major operation" to her ribs/lungs that was very drastic and painful but saved her life. She was "cured" and went on to marry and live a good life. —76.203.21.119 — Our librarian looked up your Aunt in the TB cards. She did find a few Watts listed, but unfortunately, no Dorothy M. May we add your information to our table of patients?
2012-04-05 23:49:25 my mother contractded tb around 1929/30 and was in a hospital in upstate new york, her name was delia herling. Born in 1908. I would like to know if she was a patient at saranac lake. Any information would be great. —72.169.224.102
2012-04-06 11:34:12 Hello — We will search for Delia in the library archives and let you know if her name appears there. I will post the info. here, or you can email me at [[6]] —amycatania
2012-06-08 06:05:30 Marc — could you please add Robert Farrell here? — see oral history — thanks. —amycatania
2012-08-28 13:46:26 My name is John Holiday and i am trying to find my Father who was a patient there in 1944 if you have any information i would deeply appreciate it. his name was Frank H Holiday. my email address is [[7]] —67.76.125.71 *Responded 8/28/12- libbyclark
2012-10-14 20:37:12 My grandfather, (Francis) Frank M. Ewing died of Tuberculosis in 1937. I know he was sent to the sanotarium and I am trying to find out more information and where he is buried. My email is [[8]] Thank you. —99.6.147.134
2012-12-19 08:29:24 I was at Ray Brook 1963 1964 was cured.............Barbara Hyatt —174.107.154.14
2013-02-14 13:45:48 this is a lot of people
2013-05-22 12:24:28 Please add: Paul Ludwig Ott, born 1879 in Ohio and died 1910 in Saranac Lake of TB. I have a photo album of his stay there which I downloaded to a Saranac Lake history website. He married Jane Bowen Phillps and they had one son, Gordon Joseph Ott, born 1907. I know so little as I have found nothing written down. If anyone knows anything else, I would appreciate the information. Kathy Ott Sader, [[9]] —173.246.248.133
2013-07-12 22:27:39 trying to find out information on my great grandfather Joseph Meyers, he contracted TB and died in the 1930`s i can not find out any information on him and i do not even know were he is buried my grandfather did not speak much of him he was only 8 yrs old when he became an orphan, cause his mom died in childbirth. i do know that my great grandfather was born in New brunswick, nj any information would be helpful you can contact me at [[10]] thank you kelly-anne hilliard —71.15.122.205
2013-08-13 14:16:32 I do not find the name of my aunt who was a patient there. I do not know the exact year. ENA AURELIA BONTOMASE, sometimes used Catherine Ena Bontomase was born in Oswego NY 05/06/1905 and died in Oswego 12/16/1940. We know she had to leave medical school in the late 1920's as she developed TB. Thank you. [[11]] —108.183.14.89