What would you do if you found a memoir that had been hidden for 100 years? What if it told the story of an entrepreneur, a man who lived at the turn of the 20th century, but whose vision went far beyond his time and place? Such a man was Frank S. Peer (1851-1922), and Beth Hoad and myself have worked together to edit and enhance his wonderful story.

Frank’s memoir includes:
1. Growing up on a farm in East Palmyra, NY.
2.  Devising a soiling system for his own farm and promoting it all over NYS.
3. Setting up a lumber camp in Michigan.
4.  Making dozens of cross-Atlantic trips to import thoroughbred livestock.
5. Running with the hounds in Geneseo and writing a book about it.
6. Working as a deckhand o various Great Lakes ships.
7. Designing a yacht and racing it in the U.S. and Britain.
8.  A meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt.
9.  His father, a Civil War surgeon and promoter of licensed houses of prostitution in Rochester.
10. His uncle, a Rochester dentist who died mysteriously of an overdose of chloroform.
11. Setting up a Red Cross hospital in Britain during World War I.