Harvey Dunham, author of Adirondack French Louie, and his buddy Billy Collyer.

An excerpt from Adirondack Characters and Campfire Yarns :

Author Paul Jamieson described Harvey Dunham as "a woodsman by hobby, a commercial artist in Utica by vocation, and a literary artist by accident."

Dunham was born October 6, 1887, in Saquoit, New York. He married Bessie Throp in 1912. After her death in 1914, Harvey never remarried and raised his daughter with help from his family.

In June 1914, Harvey enlisted in the Merchant Marines. After World War I, he worked as a commercial artist in New York City and Washington, D.C., before settling in Utica, New York.

The first outdoor journal in Harvey's hand dates to August 1919, describing a camping trip north of the Beaver River Flow, now Stillwater Reservoir.

The journals and friendships formed on these trips are the subject of Adirondack Adventures, by Roy E. Reehil and William J. O'Hern.

Harvey Dunham passed away July 24, 1956, after a brief illness. He was sixty-nine.

- William J. O'Hern

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