Figure 1.-- Here we see three siblings of the prominent Sisson family, Potsdam, New York (St.Lawrence County) photographed professionally by Bachraily (?) in 1918. From left to right the children are Barbara King Sisson (8 years old), Francis T. E. Sisson Jr. (5 1/2 years old), and Margaret Thompson Sisson (12 years old).

Here we see three siblings of the prominent Sisson family, Potsdam, New York (St.Lawrence County) photographed professionally by Bachraily (?) in 1918. From left to right the children are Barbara King Sisson (8 years old), Francis T. E. Sisson Jr. (5 1/2 years old), and Margaret Thompson Sisson (12 years old). Frank (as Francis was known) later graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked for the family firm, the Raquette River Paper Company. He also sold insurance. He was a member of the Potsdam Hospital Board of Trustees for 24 years and president for 10 years. He was also a member of the St. Lawrence County National Bank Board of Directors. Frank wears a fashionable white sailor suit with black scarf and long white, finely ribbed long stockings held in place by supporters (undoubtedly attached by safety pins to an underwaist). The girls wear white dresses with lace trimming and also, very probably, long white stockings. The white clothing suggests summer wear, especially in St. Lawrence County, which is very far north and on the edge of Canada, but white may also simply be a mark of the occasion's formality. Notice the bangs and page-boy haircuts of the two younger children.

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