Name Harold Hochschild | Died January 23, 1981 | |
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Harold K. Hochschild (May 20, 1892 – January 1981) was the head of the American Metals Company, a conservationist, a philanthropist, and the founder of the Adirondack Museum. He was a son of mining magnate Berthold Hochschild. He served as chairman of a commission appointed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller that recommended major changes in the administration of the Adirondack Park in 1971, leading to the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency. He also served as a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
He was an amateur historian and a trustee of the New York State Historical Association; he wrote Township 34, a history of the central Adirondacks.
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