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From an Ebay listing.

Camp Overlook was a camp on Lake Kushaqua, on the ground of Stony Wold Sanatorium, that belonged to its founder Elizabeth Newcomb.


Malone Farmer, August 16, 1905

Mrs. James E. Newcomb, president of Stony Wold Sanatorium, Lake Kushaqua is at Camp Overlook, on the grounds of the Sanatorium. There are 85 persons at Stony Wold at present, all suffering from tuberculosis, many of them young children.


Malone Farmer, September 4, 1912

Dr. James E. Newcomb passed away at [Overlook], [Kushaqua], N. Y., on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 27th... [see his page for more.]


Malone Farmer, August 9, 1916

WANTED — A first class cook, also chambermaid and laundress. Address Mrs. J. E . Newcomb, Camp Overlook, Lake Kushaqua, N. Y. 35wl