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Note from Mike Tuccinardi on this 1907 dated card. The man standing
near the hotel's corner is Will Howell, owner of the hotel when this picture
was taken. He is holding his oldest son Peter.
As told by Burt Beers:
"My earliest memories of Will Howell & his wife date
to the early 1930s when lived in the large white house on the corner of
Washington & North Streets. His son Pete and oldest daughter, Eleanor,
were childhood friends of my mother's. The Howell's youngest daughter,
Harriet, was an exceptionally attractive young woman.
Young Pete Howell attended Hobart College, Geneva, NY after
high school and then went to NYC, where he became an executive with the
Bell Telephone Co. Daughter Eleanor married Zan Rossiter, son of an MD
who practiced in Chemung in the 1930s. Zan became a journalist, starting
with one of the Elmira newspapers before moving to one of the big
NYC dailies. Zan & Eleanor's son continued as a journalist for quite
a few years, attaining some prominence before moving to Duke University
where he may still work with that institution's public relations." |
