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Note: obit - N.Y.Times Frank C. Lusk, who had conducted the Lusk Institute, a short-hand school, for more than 50 years, died yesterday in the Post-Graduate Hospital, after an illness of two weeks. His age was 78. He resided at the Hotel Astor.
Mr. Lusk, who was born in Albany, Ill., invented his own system of shorthand when a young man. He came to New York and opened his school in the old World Building. In recent years, Mr. Lusk operated the school in the Times Building.
Surviving are a son, Stanley Lusk; two daughters, Mrs. Florence Lusk Davis and Mrs. Gladys Lusk Gump, and a sister, Mrs. Netta Washburn.
********************************* Albany native Frank C. Lusk made his mark in the world in New York where he established the Lusk Institute of Shorthand, a business that was conducted in the Times Building in New York. Frank was the third child of Charles F. and Henrietta Lusk, born in 1863, in Albany. He grew up in Albany and graduated from the Northern Illinois College, Fulton. He then studied shorthand and started a career as a shorthand reporter. He became the official speech reporter for several United States Senators and for presidents William McKinley and Benjamin Harrison. Meanwhile, he continued his shorthand studies and opened a school of his own in the Old World Building, Park Row, New York. In later years he moved uptown to the Times building and despite his advanced age, continued as active proprietor of the school. Most of his students were experienced stenographers who wanted to improve their shorthand for high-speed reportorial shorthand. He died April 20, 1941, age 78. He was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Florence Lusk Davis and Mrs. Gladys Lusk Gump, a son, Stanley Lusk, and a sister, Mrs. Netta Washburn.
Trailways to Albany 2000 by Helen M. Hanson
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