Born: March 6, 1857
Died: January 2, 1947
Married: Elizabeth Douglas
Children: William J. Disco, Frank Disco, Laura Disco, Benjamin Talbert
Bartholomew Disco was an early settler. He was a lumberman, builder and Saranac Lake Road Commissioner.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 13, 1944
DISCOS MARRIED 64 YEARS; ONCE LIVED IN AU SABLE FORKS
Sixty-four years of married life were celebrated Tuesday of last week by Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew Disco at a dinner for relatives and a few immediate friends at their home, 87 Broadway, Saranac Lake. The couple was married on an Easter Sunday, but they had to wait 58 years for the anniversary date to again fall on Easter Sunday. It happened the second time in 1938. Mr. Disco celebrated his 87th birthday on March 6 and Mrs. Disco will celebrate her 84th birthday on April 12.
The couple has resided in Saranac Lake for 55 years. They watched it grow from a sparsely settled hamlet with houses scattered great distances apart to a village of 8,000 population and one of the principal health resorts in the country.
For many years Mr. Disco served as street commissioner in the village, and was the first person to be elected to that office in 1902. He had an important part in planning and carrying out the early developments in the community. Many of the first paved streets were laid under his direction. He built and owned several homes in the village, the last one that he built he still occupies.
Mr. Disco is a former lumberman. He was sent to the village by the J. & J. Rogers Company of Au Sable Forks, by whom he was employed. He delights in recalling the old days when the lumbering interests were the most powerful group in the northern section of the state, and when the lumberjack's business was eagerly sought by all communities.
Mr. and Mrs. Disco were married in the Catholic church at Black Brook. They went to Saranac Lake in 1889 to make their home. Mr. Disco continued in the employ of the J. & J. Rogers Company until 1908, when he became supervisor of St. Raymond Lumber Company in Canada. It was operated by American interests. In 1895 Mr. Disco built his first home in Saranac Lake. Later he built another home at 24 Ampersand ave.
Mr. Disco likes to relate stories of the lumbering era in the Adirondacks, of the log jams and the giants who broke the jams at the risk of their lives, of the stories of fights, their celebrations. He also likes to recall the days when that village was the principal stop-over for the stagecoaches from Au Sable Forks. He compares the stagecoach drivers of that time with the lumberjacks for ruggedness and endurance.
Mrs. Disco is the former Elizabeth Douglas of Black Brook. The couple had six children, four of whom are living. They are William J. Disco of the Saranac Lake fire department, Frank Disco of 19 Ampersand ave., and Miss Laura Disco of 87 Broadway and Mrs. Benjamin Talbert of 24 Ampersand ave. They also have three grandchildren, Miss Elaine Talbert. Richard B. Talbert and Miss Andrea Disco, all of Saranac Lake.
The couple received many congratulatory messages and numerous callers who stopped at the home to leave their best wishes. They are communicants of St. Bernard's church in Saranac Lake, where Mrs. Disco is a member of the Altar and Rosary society.
Essex County Republican, January 10, 1947
Bartholomew Disco
Bartholomew Disco, 89, pioneer lumberman of the Saranac Lake area, died Thursday, Jan. 2, in Saranac Lake.
Mr. Disco was born March 6, 1847, [sic] at Black Brook, a son of Peter and Adelaide Disco, and moved to Saranac Lake in 1889. On March 28, 1880 he married Miss Elizabeth Douglas of Black Brook.
Mr. Disco was supervisor many years for the J. J. Rogers Company at Ausable Forks, representing the firm in Canada and throughout the Adirondack's in the early days of the lumber industry here.
Surviving besides his wife, are two sons, William and Frank Disco; two daughters, Miss Laure Disco and Mrs. Benjamin Talbert; three grandchildren, Audrey Disco, Mrs. Ronald Leahy and Richard Talbert, and a brother. James Disco.
Mr. Disco was a communicant of St. Bernard's church, Saranac Lake.
