Christian Archibald Herter
WikipediaBorn: September 3, 1865
Died: December 5, 1910
Married: Susan Dows
Children: Forel, Christine, Mary, Susan and Albert Herter
Dr. Christian A. Herter was a physician and pathologist noted for his work on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He was co-founder of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
He was a founder of the Saranac Lake Improvement Company, apparently involved in the Wawbeek Hotel. He was an early owner of Birch Island, Upper Saranac Lake.
Poughkeepsie Eagle, August 3, 1889
The Saranac Lake Improvement Company, formed by Christian A. Herter and Richard M. Hoe, of New York city, and Richard F. Smith, of Saranac Lake, and others, have filed articles of incorporation in the secretary of state’s office. They have about sixty acres of land at “Sweeney’s Carry,” Upper Saranac Lake, on which they propose to erect buildings for hotel purposes, with a capital of $30,000.
Ogdensburg Journal, December 10, 1891
The Wawbeek Lodge property was sold on foreclosure proceedings at the front door of the court house, in this village, by Judge Taylor. referee, on Friday for $40,000. The premises comprise 50 acres of land and a fine hotel on one of the most sightly spots in the Adirondacks. Mary Herter, the plaintiff in the action, bid in the premises. It is believed by those who are thoroughly acquainted with the Adirondack hotel business, that in two years the property will be worth $100,000.
Note that the following news item from two years later is certainly wrong:
Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 23, 1893
Mrs. Mary Herter, of Philadelphia, has presented to her son, Dr. Christian A. Herter, the Hotel Wawbeek property at Upper Saranac Lake. The hotel was built by Mrs. Herter, and cost $100,000.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 8, 1900
ADIRONDACKS
SARANAC LAKE, July 7—At no time since the Adirondacks began to be visited by health and pleasure seekers have the prospects of a brilliant and successful season been so bright as now.
NOTES.
...Dr. Herter's camp, on Birch Isle, has been rented for the season to Mr. Hoffman Miller of New York, who took possession the latter part of June...
Adirondack News, January 7, 1911
The Wawbeek hotel at, [sic] the recent sale was bid in by the estate of the late Dr. Herter, who owned Birch Island opposite the hotel. The price bid was $25,000 and for the furniture $3,000. Several well-known Adirondack hotel men were present to watch the proceedings but none of them put in a bid. The hotel will probably be opened next summer. Dr. Herter died In New York of pneumonia, about three weeks previous to the sale.
The Sun, December 2, 1911
The late Dr. Christian A. Herter devoted his life to the study of the problems set forth in his “Biological Aspect of Human Problems,” just published by the Macmillans [sic]. Educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, his first appointment was as visiting physician in the New York City Hospital. Following this he was professor of pathological chemistry in the medical college of Bellevue Hospital and professor of pharmacology and therapeutics in the college of Physician and Surgeons. He was most actively allied with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, serving for many years as its treasurer. As referee for the Department of Agriculture of the United States, member of the association of American physicians, of the American Physiological Society, of the American Neurological society, of the American Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine and of the New York Pathological Society, he was in direct contact with the best modern scientific research
