Print Collection

Frederic Remington was born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute and attended Yale University. He worked as a cowboy, scout, and ran a sheep and mule ranch in the west. He married Eva Caten on October 1, 1884. Remington was a painter, sculptor and illustrator of Indians, cowboys and the American soldier at war. His travels took him to Germany, Russia, North Africa, Cuba and all over North America. Frederic Remington died December 26, 1909 in New Rochelle, New York from peritonitis following an appendectomy.

Franklin County is the most northern county of New York State and became a county March 11, 1808. Franklin county is bordered on the north by Canada, on the south by Essex and Hamilton Counties, on the east by Clinton County and on the west by St. Lawrence County. The county has approximately 21 villages and towns with the county seat in Malone.

Frank Peter Piskor, president of St. Lawrence University from 1969-1981, first met Robert Frost at the Bread Loaf School of English while Dr. Piskor was a student at Middlebury College. The two became friends, and Piskor began to purchase the poet’s books, simply because he liked the poetry. In 1939, Piskor joined the staff of Syracuse University as a personnel counselor. There, Chancellor William Tolley, himself a great book collector, encouraged him to continue to refine and shape his random Frost purchases into a collection.

Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet, was born December 22, 1869 at Head Tide, Maine and died in New York City, April 6, 1935. He was educated at local schools and attended Harvard University 1891-1893 leaving after his sophomore year; he never married. He moved to New York City in 1895. Theodore Roosevelt helped him get a clerkship in the New York Customs House where he worked until 1910. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry three times in the 1920's. The collection was donated by Frank P. Piskor - President of St. Lawrence University from 1969-1981.

The Frank family was a prominent Ogdensburg, New York family active in business and civic life for over 100 years. Julius Frank was mayor, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

Frank Kip was one of the many men to go to California in search of gold during this time. His aim was to pay off the family house and to make enough money to make his family financially independent (see March 12, 1857). He apparently never achieved his goal. This collection consists mainly of the letters that he wrote home from California. It contains valuable information about the life of a miner during this period.

Red Grandy was born on his family’s farm in Russell, NY in 1922. Following high school, Grandy joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and after WWII, attended the University of Southern California to study photography. While in Europe working on a master’s degree, Grandy joined the staff of the Stars and Stripes as a photojournalist. One early award-winning photo was of General Eisenhower following the news of the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur by President Harry Truman.

Fort Drum has been used as a military training site since 1908 when it was known as Pine Camp. The first major expansion of Pine Camp came with the outbreak of WWII. Pine Camp became Camp Drum in 1951, named after Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum who commanded the First Army during World War II. The post was designated Fort Drum in 1974 and a permanent garrison was assigned. In April 1980, B. Company, 76th Engineer Battalion was reassigned here from Fort Meade, Md. On September 11, 1984 it was announced that Fort Drum would become the new home of the 10th Light Infantry Division.

Fort Covington was erected from Constable, February 28, 1817, and in the formation of Bombay, reduced to its present limits. Its name is derived from Brig. Gen. Leonard Covington of Maryland who died near Cornwall and was buried on Covington Hill in 1813. The village is east of Salmon River, half a mile from the boundary of the St. Lawrence River.

The Evans Manufacturing Company was founded in the St. Lawrence County town of Hammond, New York in 1903. The business primary dealt in farming implements like plows and disc harrows. Other items made included milk sleds and bob sleighs. The principals of the firm were W. D. and B. A. Evans. The Evans Manufacturing company did business in many areas of the country.

Purchased in 2017 from Edward (Ted) Comstock.