Born: October 4, 1852
Died: August 4, 1938
Married: Theodore Hellman
Children: Edith C. Beer, Edgar A. Hellman, George S. Hellman
Frances Seligman Hellman was the sister of Isaac Seligman, who built Fish Rock Camp on Upper Saranac Lake. She owned the adjacent Camp Calumet, just north of Fish Rock.
Tupper Lake Free Press and Herald, August 4, 1938
Mrs. Hellman Dies At Calumet Camp On Upper Saranac
The Upper Saranac Lake summer colony lost one of its best known figures with the passing of Mrs. Frances Hellman, 86, at Calumet Camp, near Wawbeek.
Mrs. Hellman died Thursday afternoon about 3 o'clock from a heart ailment with which she had been afflicted for several years. Dr. E. M. Austin of Tupper Lake was in attendance.
The body was removed to the DeShaw undertaking parlors here, and was taken to Ferncliff Crematory in Westchester county Friday night, for the last rites Aug. 1
Mrs. Hellman was a familiar figure both in this village and In the Upper Saranac Lake sector. She had been a summer visitor to her estate, Camp Calumet, for the past 42 years, and had arrived here for the season only three weeks ago.
She was born in New York City on October 4, 1852, of a family widely-known in the world of finance. Her brother, Joseph Seligman [illegible] …which has branches in Paris, London, Wall Street in New York, and in a half-dozen smaller American cities. Mrs. Hellman was prominently connected with many charitable and educational institutions in New York, and enjoyed the distinction of being the first woman ever invited to become a member of the board of education of the City of New York. Active also in the literary field, she was known for her translation from the German of the work of the poet, Heinrich Heine, and for her translation of various other works of French and German authors.
The widow of the late Theodore Hellman, she is survived by three children: Mrs. Edith C. Beer, Edgar A. Hellman and George S. Hellman, the latter a well-known author and composer of operatic works. Her brother, Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia University and one of America's foremost authorities on economics, also survives.
