Editing Cornish Estate Ruins (section)

== Under the Ownership of Edward Cornish ==

Edward Cornish purchased the estate from Sigmund Stern in 1917.  Cornish was also a considerably wealthy businessman who had risen to become president of the National Lead Company in 1916.  Despite the relative opulence of the Cornish Mansion, however, it was not the primary of residence of Cornish and his wife.  Instead, the couple lived in New York City and used the Estate as something of a vacation house.  The dairy farm and various barn structures that dotted the estate were active during Cornish's ownership, as he was fond of engaging "in the pursuits of a gentleman farmer"<ref name="hvr-book">Rinaldi, Thomas E. Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. UPNE, 2006. Print.</ref> whenever time permitted.  Under his ownership, the estate "raised prized Jersey cows" and boasted "record-setting milk producing efforts" throughout the 1920s.<ref name="hvr-website"></ref>