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Title Property Record of 19 Simpson Avenue
Catalog Number 2007.09.414
Scope & Content Property Record of 19 Simpson Avenue


- Lot 97 -

1875 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Rev. Willaim Rice, Erie Annual Conference/ 99 years from 16 August 1874/ Term rent $100/ 157/22
1875 Assigned: Hannah E. (Mrs. J.E.) Rogers, Titusville, PA
1879 Assigned: Mrs. Mary E. Traile, Titusville, PA
1925 Mary E. Traile died intestate October 4, 1925/ The Administrator, James J. Rogers assigned the lease to Mrs. DeLeo Rogers Birdsall, as agent for, or nominee of, her mother Mary E. Jones
1935 DeLeo Rogers Birdsall died intestate September 4, 1935/ Only heirs were husband, Albert L. Birdsall, Sr. and son, Albert L. Birdsall, Jr.
1942 Albert L. Birdsall, Sr. died September 14, 1942


See the 17 Simpson Ave. File for time period 1951-54

1954 Chautauqua Institution deed: Nina T. Wensley, Chautauqua, NY/ 1000/347
1957 Clifford Coursen, Kinsman, Ohio and Ethel Scriven, Youngstown, Ohio/ 1087/444
1963 Ethel Scriven, Youngstown, Ohio/ 1230/474
1968 Jean C. Kalberer, Warren, Ohio/ 1343/440
1973 Dunbar N. & Rita H. VanDerveer (H&W), Niagara Falls, NY/ 1465/248
1991 Addendum: Ninety years ago, in 1901, the Chautauqua Assembly published a list of 56 "Boarding Cottages" including this one:

Cottage Rate per
Name Address Week Proprietor
Lake Front 19 Simpson $7 to 10 Mrs. M.B. Traile

1992 Dunbar N. & Rita H. VanDerveer, Trustees under Family Trust/ 2281/806
2000 Tara Ann VanDerveer, Menlo Park, CA/ 50-18-5
Dates of Creation 2007
Collection The Arthur Wade Property File Collection
Search Terms Rice, William
Rogers, Hannah E.
Traile, Mary E.
Rogers, James J.
Birdsall, DeLeo Rogers
Jones, Mary E.
Birdsall, Albert L., Sr.
Birdsall, Albert L., Jr.
Wensley, Nina Terrill
Coursen, Clifford
Scriven, Ethel
Kalberer, Jean C.
VanDerveer, Dunbar N.
VanDerveer, Rita H.
VanDerveer, Tara Ann
Real Estate
cottages
Object Name Property reference file
Classification Real Estate
Lexicon category 10: Unclassifiable Artifacts
Lexicon sub-category Need to Classify
Catalog type Archive
Dates of Accumulation 2007
Cottage Nickname Lake Front Cottage; Lakeside Lodge
Cottage Build Date c. 1895