THIS BLOG IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. I will add material as time permits. It could take several years until it is "complete". --Peter Gumaer Ogden, September 18, 2014. Address: 110 Genesee St., Ste. 707, Utica, N.Y., 13502
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All of these images except for the recent bottom three of Walter S. Fields are 600 dpi high resolution because I wish to encourage people with an interest in this history to "save", and "download" them for posterity. May your happiness and the happiness of your friends and family continue to increase.--KINDEST WISHES and NAMASTE---Peter. contact:
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Reverse painting on glass with tinfoil backing by Fannie [or Fanny] Jane Mulock
circa 1858, made as a wedding gift to Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer. Approximate
size: 48" x 36". It was sold to Jenkinstown Antiques of New Paltz, New York in
the early 1990s.
L: Peter Louw Gumaer with his surveyor father R: Peter Ezekiel Gumaer.
Circa 1862 with Civil War tax stamp on verso [below].
Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer. Albumen print circa 1855 by
A. J. Mulock, Vineland, New Jersey.
Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer. Albumen print circa 1855 by
A.J. Mulock, Vineland, New Jersey, verso.
Peter Louw Gumaer [1827-1912] of Deerpark, Orange County, New York.
Albumen print circa 1860-1870.
Verso.
Maria Louise Forbes Hotchkiss Mulock, circa 1875. Her family remains one
of the most prominent old New England families and was a major controlling force in
the New Haven Bank during that city's boom times.
L: Chauncey Irving Gumaer R: George Seward Gumaer. The sons of
Peter Louw Gumaer and Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer. From a circa 1880 tintype.
[Estate of Lucile Gumaer Ogden].
Verso.
L: Maria Carlotta Bengston Pettersson with her husband,
R: Anton Frederick Pettersson circa 1880-1895. Maternal
grandparents of Lucile Gumaer Ogden. This photograph was
made in their hometown of Wimmerby, Sweden where they re-
mained Lucile's mother, Alma Pettersson, departed for America.
The three Gumaer brothers: L: Chauncey Irving Gumaer Center: Laertes Gumaer
R: George Seward Gumaer. Circa 1895?
Peter Louw Gumaer and his wife Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer circa 1900.
Verso of the above. Clearly another survivor of the terrible fire that destroyed
Gumaer Manor in the early 1900's. Lucile Ogden told me that letters from the
Vanderbilts who had spent holidays at the Gumaer Spring House were destroyed
in this fire along with many other treasures including a Dutch Kas from the 1600s
which had descended in the family over centuries.
Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer. July 22, 1905, aged two years.
Verso.
Peter Louw Gumaer. 1827-1912. This photo of him with gathering
basket was taken circa 1905. As Lucile Gumaer Ogden describes in her
handwriting on the verso below, this photograph was taken on the old
porch of "The Little House" at Guymard Lake. I've heard that this 19th
century house was originally a miner's cabin.This old porch was replaced
many years ago. This is the house which belonged to Mildred Gumaer
Fields and later to her daughter, Grace Fields Woodard. Grace made
major reconstruction improvements to this house. It is the first house at
the intersection of Old Carriage Road and Guymard Turnpike. Grace was
one of the last members of the family to make the arduous trip out to
Queens to visit 90 year old cousin Dr. Georgine Ogden Prokopov who resides
in a nursing home there [as of 2015] after she sustained a severe stroke
several years ago. Dear Grace has lived for many years in Manhattan as a
professional screen writer. Georgine was Poet Laureate of Orange County,
New York and has published several hardcover poetry books. Georgine grad-
uated from Columbia University and the University of London. She received
her Ph.D. in International Relations. Her doctoral thesis was based upon the
ambivalent relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Her husband, Dr. Theodore S. Prokopov was a Ukrainian chemist who es-
caped from a Red Army slave labor camp during the early 20th century. Theo-
dore was born during the reign of the last Rommanov Tsar.
Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer Ogden on the Guymard Lake dam circa 1910.
Peter Louw Gumaer with his son Chauncey Irving Gumaer, February 22, 1910.
Verso. Also survived Gumaer Manor fire.
Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer with a bouquet of wildflowers circa 1919. She
loved wild flowers, especially Blood Root, tall late summer lavender asters,
Hepatica, pink and yellow Lady Slippers, the scarce Fringed Gentian and rare
[in New York state] blue Lupine; the true semi wild Tiger Lily [as opposed
to Day Lily], Canada Lily and rare Wood Lily. Her favorite color for interior
walls was chartreuse. Her favorite perfume was Guerlain's Shalimar
Wild Asters.
L: Charlie Sniffen [?] with antique mandolin and R: Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer
at Gumaer Manor circa 1919
Far left in black: Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer with friends in colonial garb. Circa 1920.
Possibly at Guymard Lake.
Gumaer Manor circa 1921 with Guymard Lake in the right background.
Correct ID: L to R: Helen Gumaer, Mildred Gumaer, Lucile Gumaer, Alma
Gumaer [Kenney]. The inked handwritten and typed names on the photo
border are out of sequence.
Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer. Closeup from Middletown High School
Class of 1922 photograph. Middletown, New York.
Class of 1922, Middletown High School. Left half only.
October 28, 1922 marriage announcement of Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer to
George Timlow Ogden at Guymard, New York.
Gumaer family compound, Guymard Lake.
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circa 1858, made as a wedding gift to Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer. Approximate
size: 48" x 36". It was sold to Jenkinstown Antiques of New Paltz, New York in
the early 1990s.
Circa 1862 with Civil War tax stamp on verso [below].
A. J. Mulock, Vineland, New Jersey.
A.J. Mulock, Vineland, New Jersey, verso.
Albumen print circa 1860-1870.
of the most prominent old New England families and was a major controlling force in
the New Haven Bank during that city's boom times.
Peter Louw Gumaer and Sarah Jane Mulock Gumaer. From a circa 1880 tintype.
[Estate of Lucile Gumaer Ogden].
R: Anton Frederick Pettersson circa 1880-1895. Maternal
grandparents of Lucile Gumaer Ogden. This photograph was
made in their hometown of Wimmerby, Sweden where they re-
mained Lucile's mother, Alma Pettersson, departed for America.
R: George Seward Gumaer. Circa 1895?
Gumaer Manor in the early 1900's. Lucile Ogden told me that letters from the
Vanderbilts who had spent holidays at the Gumaer Spring House were destroyed
in this fire along with many other treasures including a Dutch Kas from the 1600s
which had descended in the family over centuries.
basket was taken circa 1905. As Lucile Gumaer Ogden describes in her
handwriting on the verso below, this photograph was taken on the old
porch of "The Little House" at Guymard Lake. I've heard that this 19th
century house was originally a miner's cabin.This old porch was replaced
many years ago. This is the house which belonged to Mildred Gumaer
Fields and later to her daughter, Grace Fields Woodard. Grace made
major reconstruction improvements to this house. It is the first house at
the intersection of Old Carriage Road and Guymard Turnpike. Grace was
one of the last members of the family to make the arduous trip out to
Queens to visit 90 year old cousin Dr. Georgine Ogden Prokopov who resides
in a nursing home there [as of 2015] after she sustained a severe stroke
several years ago. Dear Grace has lived for many years in Manhattan as a
professional screen writer. Georgine was Poet Laureate of Orange County,
New York and has published several hardcover poetry books. Georgine grad-
uated from Columbia University and the University of London. She received
her Ph.D. in International Relations. Her doctoral thesis was based upon the
ambivalent relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Her husband, Dr. Theodore S. Prokopov was a Ukrainian chemist who es-
caped from a Red Army slave labor camp during the early 20th century. Theo-
dore was born during the reign of the last Rommanov Tsar.
loved wild flowers, especially Blood Root, tall late summer lavender asters,
Hepatica, pink and yellow Lady Slippers, the scarce Fringed Gentian and rare
[in New York state] blue Lupine; the true semi wild Tiger Lily [as opposed
to Day Lily], Canada Lily and rare Wood Lily. Her favorite color for interior
walls was chartreuse. Her favorite perfume was Guerlain's Shalimar
at Gumaer Manor circa 1919
Possibly at Guymard Lake.
Gumaer Manor circa 1921 with Guymard Lake in the right background.
Correct ID: L to R: Helen Gumaer, Mildred Gumaer, Lucile Gumaer, Alma
Gumaer [Kenney]. The inked handwritten and typed names on the photo
border are out of sequence.
Class of 1922 photograph. Middletown, New York.
George Timlow Ogden at Guymard, New York.
Names for SEO keyword search: Raymond J. Kenny, Peter Best, Sally Fields, Sarah Fields
Darke, Ogden W. Fields, Alma Best, Mildred Gumaer Fields, Mildred Fields, Grace Fields,
Grace Woodard, Douglas Best, George Timlow Ogden II, Walter Fields, Alma Gumaer
Kenney, Dr. Georgine Ogden Prokopov, Lucile Gumaer Ogden, Helen Gumaer Best.
Lucile's letter to the editor published in the Middletown Times Herald Record in 1977.
Lucile and her contemporary, Amy Bull Crist, had a friendly ongoing competition about
Orange County History. Amy, a county politician and avid self-promoter, was in the habit
of promoting, fallaciously, the Bull family as Orange County's oldest family, when, as noted
in Lucile's letter and as documented in many early history records of the region, like the
late 17th century Peenpack Patent, the families of Peenpack settled in Orange County in
the 1690s, whereas the Bull's did not arrive there until the early 18th century.
Top: Two door "Country" Pine cabinet over single drawer circa 1840 from Gumaer Manor
belonged to my great, great grandparents, Peter Louw Gumaer and Sarah Jane Mulock
Gumaer. I took this photo before I bought a good camera in my bedroom at Ogden Farm
circa 1979. The cabinet was auctioned off from the Estate of Lucile Ogden by Mark Vail
Auction Co., Pine Bush, N.Y. circa 1990. The bottom piece is from the Ogden Family.
Walter S. Fields, New York City painter and owner of the Jacklight Gallery in lower
Manhattan. Walter is one of my favorite cousins; always the creative, witty, tough, free
spirited and adventurous Bohemian. A true New Yorker to the bone and a great mind.
His father, Ogden W. Fields was major mover in the National Labor Relations Board
during the mid 20th century.
Manhattan. Walter is one of my favorite cousins; always the creative, witty, tough, free
spirited and adventurous Bohemian. A true New Yorker to the bone and a great mind.
His father, Ogden W. Fields was major mover in the National Labor Relations Board
during the mid 20th century.
I took this photo of Walter in May 1984 at Guymard Lake near the spring between the
Guymard Lake dam and the old foundation of Gumaer Manor. We were demolishing the
remains of the late 19th century "two-holer" outhouse that had been moved to this site in
the early 1900's from Ogden Farm to serve as a bathroom and bath house swimsuit change
shed. Many rusty nails were sticking up out of the loose old boards and when I noticed that
Walter was wearing his bedroom slippers I suggested he change to more protective foot-
wear. His sarcastic reply: "Oh, no! You see my insurance agent recommended these slippers
for this project." No doubt Walter recycled many of these well seasoned antique boards
for one of his unique art projects.
Guymard Lake dam and the old foundation of Gumaer Manor. We were demolishing the
remains of the late 19th century "two-holer" outhouse that had been moved to this site in
the early 1900's from Ogden Farm to serve as a bathroom and bath house swimsuit change
shed. Many rusty nails were sticking up out of the loose old boards and when I noticed that
Walter was wearing his bedroom slippers I suggested he change to more protective foot-
wear. His sarcastic reply: "Oh, no! You see my insurance agent recommended these slippers
for this project." No doubt Walter recycled many of these well seasoned antique boards
for one of his unique art projects.
Once I was admiring a distressed, very rugged, elegant and substantial shin length dark
colored almost "punk" leather coat that Walter was wearing. He told me that it was a tra-
ditional French fireman's coat and that he had found it in a garbage can in Paris! I don't
recall if that was before or after his lengthy residency on a Greek island.
Walter is a direct lineal descendant of Pierre Guimar [aka: Gumaer / Guymard].
One of my favorite paintings by cousin Walter. Acrylic and ink on wood. At this time I can't recall the name and I am waiting to hear back from Walter. More of his paintings can be viewed at his gallery website:
peter ogden utica new york
