Francis S. Bangs
from Church of the Ascension: The First 100 Years, 1884 to 1984
Born: December 7, 1855
Died: March 20, 1920
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Francis S. Bangs was an attorney at the firm Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and MacVeigh in New York City. He had a camp on the east side of the Narrows, Upper Saranac Lake. He was the first treasurer of the Church of the Ascension at Saranac Inn.
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- Wikipedia: Francis S. Bangs
New York Times, March 3, 1920
FRANCIS S. BANGS, LEADING LAWYER, DIES
He Was Prominent in Republican Politics, the Episcopal Church and Finance.
Francis Sedgwick Bangs, a widely known lawyer, prominent in Republican
politics and in Episcopal Church affairs, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 161 West Seventy-third Street, after an illness of five weeks. Mr. Bangs was graduated from Columbia with the degree of A. B. in 1878 and with the degree of L.L.B. in 1880.
For a number of years he was a member of the law firm of Guthrie, Bangs & Van Sinderen; a trustee of Columbia University, vestryman of Trinity Church; Director of Adams Express Building Company, Adams Band and Building Company, Dodd & Childs Express Company, Hollywood Hotel and Cottage Company, Manhattan Delivery Company, Morris European and American Express Company, and trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Underwriters (Lloyds), of New York; a Director of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company and trustee of the Washington Water Bower Company, Spokane, Wash.
New York Times, August 6, 1911
…Francis Bangs, who has a rough camp at Bangs Point, on the Upper Saranac Lake, is entertaining Empie Latimer and H. R. Latimer of New, York here- Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Bangs are occupying their cottage at the inn.
Troy Daily Times, August 1914
...F. S. Bangs is taking advantage of the summer season to build a fine new camp on his point near the Narrows of the Upper Saranac Lake. A new highway will be built in the direction of the camp, but it will not connect the camp with the main public highway. To overcome this difficulty Mr. Bangs expects to have an automobile ferry to the main shore...
