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Note: Judson Pratt (age 19) and Maud Leach (Age 22) were boarders on the farm in 1900
William nearly cut his hand off with a cordwood saw and Dr. J.P. Cummings of Ticonderoga, NY sewed the tendons back together so that William had full use of his hand after it healed. There was also very little scar when it healed. J.P. Cummings was the family doctor for over 50 years.
William was a member of the MT. Defiance Lodge of the Masons (#794 F.A.M.) from 10/20/1901 until his death. There are several invoices for annual dues and an eulogy in the family papers held by James B De Larm.
From The Plattsburgh Sentinel:
10/03/1884
Willie W. DeLarm, son of Rev. R. De-
Larm, of Plattsbargh, returned to Troy on
Thursday, to finish up his course at Mc-
Creary & Shields' Commercial College.
From the Ticonderoga Sentinel:
THURSDAY, MARCH 26,1906
GREAT COON HUNT AT SWAMP GORE.
"One day last week Eugene Doolittle
went from his farm to Swamp Gore,
just below the mill of the American
Graphite Co., in search of game and
noticed several coon tracks around the
butt of an old decayed maple tree
which was still standing. Thinking
the coons were in the hollow of the
tree he set fire to it and waited, but
the coons did not show themselves.
So he started home for an axe to fell
the tree and on the road met Wm. De-
Larm, who had an axe, and together
the pair went back to the tree, which
when they reached it fell. The top
limbs struck another tree, it broke in
the middle and out dropped four coons
in mid-air. When they fell on the
snow the two hunters made a grand
rush for them. Delarm succeeded in
catching two of them alinve and Doo-
little got one, while tbe other started
up another tree. About this time one
of the coons bit DeLarm on the wrist
and he shook it off. So up the tree
goes this coon. The hunters brought
their two coons to the hollow tree
again and shoved them both in and
noticed there was yet another coon in
the hollow of the old tree, which was
then covered to keep the three coons
from escaping. Then the hunt began
for the escaped coons. One tree was
cut down and a coon fell out of the
branches but was caught alive by
Doolittle, while DeLarm started in to
cut down the other tree. When it fell
the coon fell also, but up it goes
another tree and about this time,
Doolittle's coon bit him on the hand
and got away, getting up another
tree. Well, the beys worked nearly
all day and at last succeeded in cap-
turing all the five coons alive, but it
required the cutting down of over
twenty trees. Mr. Shattuck of Hague,
gave Doolittle $5.00 for the coons,
which he is going to raise on his
place at Hague."
From the Ticonderoga Sentinel
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1896.
ASSESSOR.
Nathan Holman, R., 63.
William W. DeLarm, D., 119.
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