Dr. Bertram H. Eckmann.
Detail from Historic Saranac Lake Collection, 2022.6.2.
Gift of the Eckmann Family.Born: May 14, 1923
Died: April 24, 2000
Married: Estherlea Cohen
Children: Kenneth, Martha, Carol and David
Dr. Bertram Harold Eckmann arrived as a patient in Saranac Lake, completed his medical training and returned as a staff TB specialist. He cured at the Trudeau Sanatorium and stayed in Saranac Lake from 1945 to 1950. His hometown was Yonkers, NY. He met Estherlea Cohen Eckmann at Trudeau and they were married.
Dr. Eckmann attended the reunion of TB patients in Saranac Lake in 1987.
A brick at the Saranac Laboratory has been dedicated in the name of Bertram Harold Eckmann, M.D. by his children, Kenneth, Martha and Carol and David.
