Adirondack Daily Enterprise, January 7, 1948
Lake Placid News, December 9, 1932The Hotel Saranac Pharmacy may have been started in 1931 by Homer Baker, who was previously at the Post Office Pharmacy. He died the same year, and his wife, Elizabeth Meagher Baker, inherited the business, operating it until the early 1950s when she sold it. Lionel Miller was the pharmacist there until his death in 1944, and Leo Simmons of 9 Front Street operated it in 1948 according to the Saranac Lake village directories.
Lake Placid News, November 24, 1944
SARANAC LAKE PHARMACIST DIES
Lionel Miller, 54, pharmacist in Saranac Lake for more than 35 years, died Monday of last week at his home.
A native of Brunswick, Ga., he went to Saranac Lake as a youth with his parents, and was graduated from the Albany school of pharmacy.
For 20 years he operated his own pharmacy and for 15 years was pharmacist at the Hotel Saranac pharmacy.
He was a member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus, and the Holy Name society. Surviving are his wife, and a son Capt. Hubert Miller, now in France.
