Myron Schafer was a stock broker who rented a camp on Deer Island, Upper Saranac Lake.  In the early 1940s, he owned a camp in Elizabethtown, Camp Owassa, where he entertained "Baron and Baroness Rothchild of Paris."


Lake Placid News, October 5, 1917

Myron Schafer, stock broker of New York, has rented Camp Edgewater, Deer Island, Upper Saranac, for the next season. Mr. Schafer recently bought the Guggenheim launch. It is one of the finest launches on Upper Saranac and has a speed of 27 miles per hour.