Curtis Fraleigh (Red Hook)

Curtis Fraleigh (top, second from left), 1930s.

Curtis Fraleigh (June 1872-1944) was a farmer on Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook, New York.

Fraleigh was born in 1872 as the son of John Alfred Fraleigh and Lucy Irene Curtis in Red Hook, New York. He grew up in the bustle of late-century Rose Hill Farm. With his sister, he delivered the milk before school, tended to the "guests," as boarders were termed, and looked after the farm's numerous quacking, clucking, mooing, neighing, barking, oinking, and baaing two- and four-footed denizens. Typical of Fraleigh men, Curtis married later in life and ushered the Rose Hill Farm into the twentieth century, including welcoming the fifth generation into the world.

On the business stop, he stopped dairying, ended the milk route, and expanded fruit production, especially apples. They continued hosting city folk and raised their two children on the farm. Father and son successfully managed Rose Hill Farm through the 1930s and World War II.

Fraleigh died in 1944.

Family

Fraleigh married Fannie Keys Elmore in 1907.

• Elmore Fraleigh - m. Barbara Rutherford
• Ruth Fraleigh - m. Sidney H. Roberts