Fisher Home, afterwards the Mountain View Hotel. (When Mrs. Fisher died, she was reportedly embalmed by a method known only ...

Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection

BANC PIC 1905.17500.47:103--ALB

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Full title: Fisher Home, afterwards the Mountain View Hotel. (When Mrs. Fisher died, she was reportedly embalmed by a method known only to Doctor Benjamin Lyford -- who took the secret of it with him when he died -- and kept in the house, well-preserved, for a few months. Her husband took her to England for burial, and was never heard from again. Before the house was sold for a hotel, the caretaker rattled chains and made noises to make people think it was haunted.) 1898.

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