TB Patients

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 <amy AT historicsaranaclake DOT org>.


Patients whose names appear on the Patient Memorial Wall at the Saranac Laboratory Museum are indicated with an image of a laboratory brick. For information about dedicating a brick, please see the Dedicate a Brick Brochure.pdf or contact Historic Saranac Lake at 518-891-4606.

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)	Notes
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	A prominent advisor to Batista in Cuba.
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.
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.
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	Launched a publication, The Trotty Veck Messengers, that would ultimately sell four million copies.
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	Considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Did not have TB, but a form of leukemia
Theodora Becker					Gabriels Sanatorium	She was a nurse who contracted TB while at training at a hospital on 14th Street in New York City while a student at St. Mary's in Brooklyn
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	Rachel Rae Berger's engagement was broken when she was diagnosed with TB, and she never married. She became a postmistress in New Jersey.
Priscilla Christensen Bergren			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	She published poems in the Journal of the Outdoor Life, including, "Ef You Won't Sit Out," "Battlin' With Bacilli," "Taking the Cure," and "One Physician, E. L. T" in honor of Dr. Trudeau on his 60th birthday.
Dr. Norman Bethune		March 3, 1890 - November 12, 1939	Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada	1926-?	Trudeau Sanatorium worked at New York State Hospital at Ray Brook	Served in the Spanish Civil War and was a hero of the Chinese revolution.
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	Cured at Ray Brook and then stayed to work as an X-Ray Technician
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	The granddaughter of Thomas E. Watson, the leader of the southern Populists, she died in SL at age 29, leaving her husband and young son
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	Mary Acheson Bundy was the daughter of US Secretary of State Dean Acheson and wife of Assistant Secretary of State, William P. Bundy.
Ernie Burnett		12/19/1884 - 9/11/1959	Cincinnati, Ohio	1944 - 1959	Fallon Cottage Annex	Vaudeville performer and accomplished composer. Famous for the song, My 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	Thomas Capone operated a smoke shop and played coronet in a band in Syracuse when he was diagnosed with TB. After their cure, Thomas and Esther married and lived in Saranac Lake
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	She emigrated with her family from Spain to NYC, where she contracted TB. She died at the Trudeau Sanatorium
Roy Chamberlain						Roy Chamberlain was the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Saranac Lake starting in 1915.
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	William Clements came to America with his parents when he was one year old. He married in 1941 and in 1942 he came down with TB. At first he was in Seaview Hospital on Staten Island, New York and was transferred up to Ray Brook about 1947.
Alexander S. Cochran		1874 - June 20, 1929	Yonkers, New York		147 Park Avenue	A man of great inherited wealth, the founder of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, he died of T.B. in Saranac Lake at age 55
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 Cornwall 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 Cornwall Iron Furnace
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	Cook's account of his experience curing on Osgood Pond was instrumental in the growth of the cure industry in Saranac Lake.
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	A teacher and a poet who wrote some of her best poems in Saranac Lake.
Edwin Charles Cushman Jr		died Nov, 1907	Bar Harbor, Maine	c.1904-1907		An amateur anthropologist from a notable family, he worked on Navajo and Anazasi ruins, was a “special agent” for the St Louis World’s Fair, transporting the Cocopa Indians, and worked with the Ute tribes
John Theodore Dalton		1899-1927		1923-1927	Ludington Infirmary, Trudeau Sanatorium	Composer, Poet, Lyricist, Contributor to the Thursday Evening Club
Eddie Diamond		June 9, 1902 - January 14, 1930		January 8, 1929 - January 14, 1930	6 Shepard Avenue	Eddie Diamond was the brother of the notorious gangster, Jack "Legs" Diamond.
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	He was nineteen when he arrived. Returning to Cuba, he married and had 3 children. When he died his eldest child was 2 1/2.
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	A chemical engineer, he cured as patient of Dr. Packard. Moved to SL in 1927.
Larry Doyle		July 31, 1886 - March 1, 1974	Caseyville, Illinois	1942 - 1954	Trudeau Sanatorium	Larry Doyle was a second baseman for the New York Giants, one of best ballplayers of his time.
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	After leaving Trudeau, he resumed his medical residency and became a radiologist. He married and had nine children.
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		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	The first TB patient to spend a winter in Saranac Lake on advice of his doctor.
Dr. Seymour Emans			New York City			Dr. Emans was the founding medical superintendent at the Rainbow Sanatorium.
Robert Farrell		May 17, 1930	Saranac Lake	1947 -	Ray Brook State Hospital	Robert Farrell was diagnosed with tuberculosis while in high school. He cured at Ray Brook and then learned radiology in an occupational therapy program and became a successful radiologist.
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	Frank Fisher was much esteemed for his kindness and liberality and many other noble qualities.
John R. Freer		1876 - May 16, 1961	Kingston, New York		Trudeau Sanatorium	Freer became president of the Adirondack National Bank.
Charlotte Gallery				1930s		Charlotte Gallery married Daniel after meeting him while curing in Saranac Lake. The couple moved to Fall River, Mass. after they left Saranac Lake.
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)	Came for the cure and settled in SL with her two sons. Was a pianist at a local church and taught piano lessons.
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	Anton was born in Russia
Irving Gershenz			New York City	- c. 1930		Irving Gershenz was a cab driver from New York City, who came to Saranac Lake for the cure.
Dr. Samuel Howard Gilliland		1878-1929	Marietta, PA	1920s?		President of the Gilliland Laboratories, founded in Marietta in 1882
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	A physician who cured in Saranac Lake
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.
Kathleen McFarlane Hammond		- 1917	Gananoque, Ontario	Santanoni Apartments, Morgan Cottage	c. 1916	Kathleen McFarlane Hammond, the daughter of a wealthy Canadian, was a composer of musical reviews. She was on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat, and though she survived she soon contracted tuberculosis.
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	Bernard Heaney was one of four children orphaned when their mother died of TB. He died of the disease at 39.
Morris Hillquit		1869 - 1933	born in Latvia, he moved to New York City	1919		A founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America
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	Arnout Hyde was a chemical engineer with the DuPont Company; he was working on the Manhattan project during World War II when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and was sent to Saranac Lake. His cure was successful, and he later moved back to West Virginia.
Mary Ingersoll		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	An efficiency expert for the steel industry, he was the husband of artist, Amy Jones.
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	A young father who cured in Saranac Lake and died here after one year. At least half of his family died of TB
Jacob Kesner		9/15/1898-6/15/57	New York, New York	1927		A Navy Veteran of WWI, he cured in 1927 and returned to SL on his honeymoon in 1941.
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, Jackson Cottage, 26 Cedar Street, Jackson Cottage, 8 Virginia Street, Carson Cottage	Elsie Steiner was a typist in New York City and came to Saranac Lake to cure. She worked as a chamber maid in area homes and at the Hotel Marcy in Lake Placid for forty years.
Joseph Kodim, Sr.		March 9, 1883 - May 17, 1933	Vienna, Austria	November 8, 1926 - May 17, 1933	26 Cedar Street, Jackson Cottage, 8 Virginia Street, Carson Cottage	Married to Marie Kodim, mother of his 5 children. Married Adolfine Fromm. Married Elsie Steiner. Left his family and life in New York City for the cure.
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	Cured at Stony Wold in the late forties.
Dr. Henry Leetch		11/5/1895-4/20/1970	Washington D.C.	1929 - 1965	5 Shepard Avenue	After his cure, Dr. Leetch stayed on in Saranac Lake for more than thirty years, specializing in treating tuberculosis.
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		Long became a physician; he was Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Director of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis from 1935 to 1955
Eva Long		1906-1931	Nottingham, England	1927-1929	Reception Hospital	Eva died at the age of 25. Her great neice shared her scrapbook with us.
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	Carl Sofus Lumholtz was a Norwegian discoverer and ethnographer known for his field research and ethnographic publications on the indigenous cultures of Australia and central Mexico.
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			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	Mathewson was one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time.
D. Lorne McGibbon		November 24, 1870 - April 20, 1927	Montreal, Quebec	1908 -		McGibbon became the chief benefactor of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec and of tuberculosis treatment in Canada generally.
Patrick J. McKeown		1899 - July 11, 1929	Astoria, NYC	1928-1929	26 Church Street	Patrick McKeown was a young physician from Astoria. He had tuberculosis in his throat and died at the age of 30.
William McLaughlin		August 14, 1917 - 1986	Saranac Lake, New York			McLaughlin was a well regarded cartoonist, newspaper photographer, reporter and columnist.
Dennis McMahon				1875	Ensine Miller's house, Sunnyside	McMahon was one of the earliest tuberculosis patients in Saranac Lake.
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				1930 -	Trudeau Sanatorium	Meade was the executive director of the Trudeau Sanatorium and medical director of the Trudeau Institute.
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		Joseph Messing was living in New York City in 1923 when he was diagnosed with TB, and first sought a cure at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Sanatorium of Denver, Colorado. He died back in the city not long after attempting a cure in Saranac Lake.
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.
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.
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			Mirick was the Circulation Manager for the New York American newspaper
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
Frank Edward Mueller		August 24, 1923 -	Littleton, Massachusetts	September 1960 - November 1961	Gabriels Sanatorium	Frank Mueller was an engineer.
Florence Mulhern			New York City	early 1950s	Trudeau Sanatorium	In 2011 Florence published a book about taking the cure, "The Last Lambs on the Mountain."
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	Patrick Murphy was the son of F. Scott Fitzgerald friends Sara and Gerald Murphy.
Ernest Malcolm Myatt		March 28, 1888 - March 16, 1914	Raleigh, North Carolina	11 Park Place	c. 1913	Earnest Myatt was a 25-year-old with a new law degree when he died, two years after his younger brother.
James McRae Myatt		April 22, 1894 - August 22, 1912	Raleigh, North Carolina	11 Park Place?	c. 1913	James McRae was nineteen when he died of tuberculosis, two years before his elder brother.
Edwin Bernard Nagle		November 13, 1879 - August, 1919	Minnesota	1918-1919	9 Church Street	Edwin Nagle was a life-long miner in the United States and in Cuba, where he worked as Superintendent of the El Cobre Copper mine for several years. His attempted cure was unsuccessful.
Dr. Frederick L. Neely						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		1879 - 1910	Ohio	? - 1910		Died in Saranac Lake while attempting a cure.
Dr. Edward Packard		1883 - November 16, 1968	Dorchester, Massachusetts	1912 -	Trudeau Sanatorium	Dr. Packard was director of Trudeau Sanatorium from 1946 to 1950.
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		After his cure, he moved to Lake George, where he became an Episcopal priest.
Mary Kelly Parry		1918-1984	Jackson Heights, New York	1941-1955	Trudeau Sanatorium	Mary was a housewife, and was married to Dr. Frazer Parry
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 Anderson owned the Alta Vista Lodge from 1941-1958
Walker Percy		May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990	Birmingham, Alabama	c.1941-c.1945	Trudeau Sanatorium	A Southern author, won the National Book Award for The Moviegoer.
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.
Mary Poppick		c. 1900	Jermyn, Pennsylvania	c. 1933	Trudeau Sanatorium, 1 Pine Street	Mary Poppick was a shoe worker with Endicott-Johnson.
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		August 19, 1878 - August 1, 1944	The Philippines	1944	Camp Massapequa	He was the president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. At the outset of World War II and the threat of the Japanese invasion, Quezón established a government in exile in the US He died of TB in Saranac Lake.
Richard H. Ray				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	Guided by Fred Rice, Martha Reben camped on the shores of Weller Pond; this led to her book, The Healing Woods
Ortanza Redinger		b.1886	Pennsylvania	c.1912	Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium	"Tennys" employer, California industrialist, James Cox Brady arranged for her cure at the San, c.1912.
Branch Rickey		December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965	Stockdale, Ohio	1908-1909		Branch Rickey was an innovative Major League Baseball executive who broke professional baseball's color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, and who drafted the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente; he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.
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.
George C. Sageman		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.
Helen M. Sandhaus		1923 - 2009	Lancaster, PA		Trudeau Sanatorium	Reported to be the youngest patient to cure at the San, Helen was 16 when she came for the cure with her father.
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	Isabel Shaw was a young mother who had TB. She and her husband built two houses— one for the children, hoping to sheild them from disease.
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	Helen came for the TB cure and died in Saranac Lake at the age of 29.
Dwight S. Simpson		1883-1962	New York City	1916-1919	Trudeau Sanatorium	A naval architect, he cured in Saranac Lake for three years.
Carol Smith				Late 1940s	Stony Wold Sanatorium	Carol Smith was a friend of Eileen Leavitt.
Isabel Smith		- January 19, 1958		1928-1948	Trudeau Sanatorium	Isabel Smith spent twenty years at Trudeau; she wrote "Wish I Might," a memoir of the cure in Saranac Lake.
Madeline Smith						Came for treatment of TB, but may not have had the disease
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	Came to SL at height of fame. Began Writing The Master of Ballantrae in SL. Probably did not have TB, but another lung ailment.
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		LaVerne Strough and her family moved to Saranac Lake because she and her mother were diagnosed with TB.
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	E. Hallie Sutton came for the cure, and lived in the village for 13 years with his wife and daughter.
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.
Denis Troy			New York City	1930's	Ray Brook Sanatorium	Cured at Ray Brook with his two brothers, Peter and Denis.
Peter Troy			New York City	1930's	Ray Brook Sanatorium	Cured at Ray Brook with his two brothers, Thomas and Denis.
Thomas Troy			New York City	1930's	Ray Brook Sanatorium	Cured at Ray Brook with his two brothers, Denis and Peter. He eventually retired in Saranac Lake.
Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau		1848 - 1915	New York City	1870s - 1915	118 Main Street	Founder of the Trudeau Sanatorium and Saranac Laboratory
Jack Valdez
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 -		Ethel Walsh came to Saranac Lake at 16 to be treated for TB. She became an LPN, and stayed in the village until her death at 94
Thomas P. Ward		March 22, 1898 - February, 1982		Before 1922	Fallon Cottage	Thomas Ward regained his health and became a well known realtor and insurance agent; he served as mayor of the village from 1935 to 1941, and as postmaster from 1941 to 1964. During the New Deal era, he was head of the regional Works Progress Administration.
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.
Edith R. Schultz Welton		Jan 1887-circa 1928	Brooklyn, New York	1926-27	Alta Vista Lodge	The wife of a famous surgeon in Brooklyn, she died in her early thirties of TB
Max Westhoff						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.
James Forbes Williams		c. 1907 - 1960	Wisconsin	c. 1949
Emanuel Wolinsky		born 9/23/1917	New York City	1941-1943,1946-1958	Trudeau Sanatorium	A physician in the forefront of discovering the cure for TB.
Marjorie Claster Wolinsky		born March 9, 1918	Lock Haven, Pennsylvania	1939-1958	Trudeau Sanatorium	She cured for six years, met and married Dr. Manny Wolinsky
Benjamin William Woodburn		1884-1962	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	1905		He was around 21 years of age when he came to Saranac Lake. He was cured and went on to marry in 1911 and had one surviving child.
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	Yeager's cure was successful, and he became Resident Physician at Trudeau from 1935 to 1942, when he left to take a position with the Rockland County Sanatorium; the latter became a major health center which now bears his name.
Edward R. Young		- 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						The school had an unusual admission requirement: an arrested case of tuberculosis.

A family outside the Noyes Cottage. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, December 6, 1985

Articles on Patient Groups

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See also

• TB Reunion
  

• Doctors
  

• Nurses

Comments:

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 amy@historicsaranaclake.org 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 <mwanner2 AT gmail DOT com>.
  

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 amy@historicsaranaclake.org. —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 j.holiday@earthlink.net —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 pashley60@yahoo.com. 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

—brandonwhite

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, ksader2002@yahoo.com. —173.246.248.133