Combined families — A vehicle for nurses
This is the latest in an occasional series of posts about the daughters of Samuel Pruyn and their families that lived in the three houses that now are the campus of The Hyde Collection art museum in Glens Falls.
I have a mental image of the PBS show “Call The Midwife” — without the British accents.
Mary Hoopes, Nell Pruyn and Charlotte Hyde, the three sisters, contributed $50 each — the equivalent of $662 in current dollars each — to the fund to purchase a vehicle for the Glens Falls visiting nurse.
“In Glens Falls today there are dozens of families too poor to pay for the medical attention they should have,” The Post-Star reported on Jan. 20, 1920. “They are being looked after by the visiting nurse, but the visiting nurse is unable to give them as much attention as they require for the reason that time will not permit. An automobile to carry her from home to home would enable her to make twice as many calls as at present.”
The three sisters, combined, contributed 10 percent of the cost of the vehicle.
In other Combined Families historical news:
The Post-Star on Jan. 6, 1920 reported that Crandall Library was planning an exhibit of Native American baskets that Nell Pruyn collected on a trip to California. — “Many of them are old and rare and most of the pieces are of great value. The art of weaving these wonderful grass and fibre baskets will soon be a lost art.”
The Post-Star on Jan. 7, 1920 reported that Polly Hoopes, daughter of Maurice and Mary Hoopes, was a society writer for “Academy Life,” the new student newspaper of Glens Falls Academy.
The Post-Star on Jan. 13, 1920 reported that Maurice Hoopes was re-elected president and Louis Hyde re-elected vice president of Finch, Pruyn & Co.
The Post-Star on Jan. 14, 1920 reported the Maurice Hoopes was re-elected a director of First National Bank of Glens Falls.
The Post-Star on Jan. 26, 1920 quoted Maurice Hoopes in a report about city officials considering establishing Daylight Savings Time by local law if the federal government repealed it nationally. — “I believe thoroughly in daylight savings and would support any workable plan. I could not say offhand whether I would be in favor of the change as a community proposition.”
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