The Gumaer Girls at Gumaer Manor Guymard Lake Orange County New York 1921
by Peter Ogden
Title
The Gumaer Girls at Gumaer Manor Guymard Lake Orange County New York 1921
Artist
Peter Ogden
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This is a partially restored copy of a 1921 original photograph print of the "Gumaer Girls" in front of their ancestral home, Gumaer Manor, at Guymard Lake, Town of Mount Hope and Town of Deerpark, Orange County, New York. From left to right they are: 1. Helen Josephine Gumaer [ later Helen Gumaer Best ], 2. Mildred Peterson Gumaer [ later Mildred Gumaer Fields ], 3. Lucile Greenleaf Gumaer [ later Lucile Gumaer Ogden ], 4. Alma Mulock Gumaer [ later Alma Gumaer Kenney ].
Gumaer Manor burned to the ground in the early 1920s. The Guimar - Gumaer family lived in the Guymard area since the 1680's when their aristocratic Huguenot ancestors Pierre Guimar and Anne d'Amuor fled the Protestant genocide of Imperial France. The Guimars were original signatories to the Peenpack Patent circa 1687 and always lived in peace with the Lenape Indians, a branch of the Delaware tribe. The bulk of the Guimar fortune was lost when relatives who had agreed to forward it to the Guimars in the New World after their hurried escape failed to do so. Pierre was unused to hard physical labor which he was forced to take up in his new home and it is said that, in the beginning his hands bled from the heavy work of farming.
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