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Property history compiled by Architect/Author/Historian Paul Malo www.ThousandIslandsLife.com

The Sangers of Sanger Hill, Town of Sangerfield, are an old and distinguished family. Jedediah Sanger was a wealthy investor who, with a syndicate of two others, purchased great tracts of government land from New York State after the Revolution. Most of this land was not sold initially to settlers but leased to tenant farmers. This quasi-feudal system, once prevalent in eastern New York State, was broken by the Anti-Rent Rebellion of tenant farmers prior to the Civil War. If Sanger Hill recalls grand country houses of landed English families, deriving income from tenant farmers, the allusion may not be coincidental, for the Sangers indeed were an aristocratic, landed family.

Jedediah Sanger, 1751-1829	Thirty-seven year-old Jedediah Sanger moved from New Hampshire to what is now the Town of Sangerfield in 1788. His property improvements had been destroyed by fire and he was deeply in debt but, with confidence of lenders, he began acquiring large parcels of land and, recognizing the potential of water power from the streams flowing through these hills, he built mills. The Town of Sangerfield is named for this pioneer settler who became town supervisor, a judge, and New York State senator, Jedidiah Sanger extended investments farther west. In 1796 he built the first grist and saw mill on the outlet of Skaneateles Lake, for instance.
William Sanger, 1865-1934	Descendent of Jedidiah Sanger, William Cary Sanger devoted much of his life to military and civic service in Albany and Washington. Col. Sanger was in the circle with Theodore Roosevelt concerned with wilderness conservation. He married Mary Ethel Cleveland Dodge, joining two old families of New England and New York prominence. The Dodges like the Sangers derived fortunes from land and its natural resources. William and Mary had three children: William Carey, Jr., Henry Lawrence, and Mary Ethel. Son William Cary Sanger, Jr. was an author known for his published poetry. The large library at Sanger Hill evidences the culture of the family. Patrons of the arts, the Sangers encouraged their children in creative, artistic pursuits. Col. William and Mary Dodge Sanger entertained many prominent guests at Sanger Hill. William Cary Sanger served as Assistant and Acting Secretary of War. A Kansas army installation was named Camp William Cary Sanger. Col. Sanger joined President Theodore Roosevelt as a member of the prestigious Boone and Crockett Club and served as Trustee at nearby Hamilton College at Clinton, New York. Col. William Cary Sanger, a Harvard alumnus, lived with his family during the winter season in a Brooklyn Heights city residence. He purchased the ancestral Sangerfield property in 1890 from a local owner, completing the main house on his Sanger Hill estate in 1913. Six years after the 1954 death of son, William Cary Sanger, Jr., the last Sanger to reside in the mansion, Edward W. Jones purchased the property from the Sanger estate. Then a religious order, the Stigmatines, acquired Sanger Hill for use as a retreat center for seminarians. John Hall and his family built new equestrian and caretaker facilities during the Hall ownership, 1970-1987. A subsequent owner, John McCormack of Connecticut, never lived in the house.
Architect Newton Phelps Stokes Mr. & Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes John Singer Sargent, 1897 Metropolitan Museum of Art	Colonel Sanger found an architect attuned to aristocratic taste in fellow Harvard alumnus, [Isaac] Newton Phelps Stokes. They agreed on the model of an English country house, generally of the stone Cotswold manor sort, featuring Tudor details. The design replicates no known example, however, but is an adaptation suited to the conditions of the site and American life. Stokes may have recommended the Olmsted firm for planning and landscaping of the estate grounds, as the firm designed the Newport estate of his father, Anson Stokes Phelps, now a public park. The J.W. Bishop Company of Worcester, Mass. was the general contractor. In 1906 with the aid of a force comprising thrity to forty men, ground was broken and construction started. It required one year to erect the large three-story building. The walls are of Lenroc stone quarried from the pits at Oxford, NY. The stone was carefully selected with about twenty-five percent being brown and the remainder gray.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Property history compiled by Architect/Author/Historian Paul Malo www.ThousandIslandsLife.com	Olmsted Brothers, the nationally prominent firm of landscape architects, formed in 1898 by step-brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (1870-1957), continued the nation's first landscaping practice festablished in 1858 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.r Based in Brookline, Massachusetts, the firm is famous for urban parks, such as Central Park in New York City, major univeristy campuses, and private estates such as Sanger Hill.
Colonel William Cary Sanger Bio From www.nysl.nysed.gov William Cary Sanger was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 21, 1853. The son of Henry Sanger and Mary E. Requa Sanger, he was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Harvard College and Columbia Law School. During his college years Sanger joined numerous clubs and societies and played on Harvard's first varsity football team. After earning his law degree from Columbia, Sanger was employed by the law office of Evarts, Southmayd and Choate in New York City. Later, he established his own firm in partnership with Gherardi Davis [sic]. Sanger married Mary Ethel Cleveland Dodge, the daughter of General Charles Cleveland Dodge and Mary Theresa Bradhurst Schieffelin on February 23, 1892. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Sangerfield in Oneida County, New York. (The town of Sangerfield was named after Jedediah Sanger, an early settler.) Several years after moving to Sangerfield, Sanger constructed a large manor house there, naming it Sangerfield House. Sanger gave up his law practice in New York following his move, hoping to enter politics in Oneida County. In 1894, Sanger was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican from the second district of Oneida County. Sanger served in the State Assembly from 1895 to 1897. As a member of the Assembly, Sanger was particularly concerned with civil service reform and ballot reform. Sanger had a lengthy military career. In 1890 he was appointed assistant chief of artillery at the rank of colonel in the New York State National Guard. He was an honorary member of Company G, 21st Regiment of the New York State National Guard, as well as a lieutenant colonel of the 203rd Regiment Infantry, New York Volunteers. During the Spanish-American War, Sanger was Provost Marshall of Camp Black near Hempstead, Long Island. After the war he served for several years as an assistant inspector general of the National Guard of New York, and was appointed Inspector by Governor Theodore Roosevelt at the end of 1899. In 1900, on request of the President of the United States, Sanger traveled to Europe to study the organization of the reserve and auxiliary force of Great Britain and the militia of Switzerland. Sanger was appointed assistant secretary of war by President William McKinley in 1901, and continued New York State Library/Manuscripts and Special Collections Sanger Family Papers SC22786 2 of 8 under McKinley's successor, Roosevelt, until 1903. When the United States entered World War I, Sanger, who was over sixty years old, wrote to the President to volunteer his services. He was denied a military appointment because of his age, but spent much of the war in Washington, D.C. as associate manager and later manager of the Potomac Division of the American Red Cross. (In 1907 he had been the president of the New York State branch of the American Red Cross.) Sanger also served on the State Lunacy Commission (1910-1911) and was president of the New York State Hospital Commission from 1911 to 1913. Throughout his life, Sanger remained actively involved in numerous clubs and associations, including the Sangerfield Country Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the Century Club, the Republican Club of New York, the Sons of the Revolution, the Boone and Crockett Club, and the Society of Colonial Wars. For a more complete list of Sanger's memberships, see the biographical sketch in Box 1, Folder 1. The children of William Cary Sanger were: William Cary Sanger, Jr. (writer), born February 9, 1893 Henry Lawrence Sanger, born April 13, 1894, died May 15, 1913 Mary Ethel Sanger, born July 29, 1895 John Haynes Sanger, born and died November 1, 1899 Richard Harlakenden Sanger, born July 22, 1905 Lillian Schieffelin Sanger, born April 3, 1909

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