Fake was born on February 9, 1895, in
Chatham, New York. He moved to
Cobleskill when he was a boy. He was the son of Leonidas Fake graduated from Cobleskill High School in 1913 and from
Albany Law School in 1917. During
World War I, he served in the
U.S. Army and attended the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School in
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from the school in 1919 and was Second Lieutenant. After his discharge from the Army, he conducted a general insurance agency in Cobleskill.
1924,
1925,
1926,
1927,
1928,
1929,
1930,
1931, and
1932. Fake was an active member of the
Grange, serving as Master and Treasurer of the Cobleskill Grange as a member of the Schoharie Pomona Grange Executive Committee. In 1944, the state's executive committee appointed him the state Grange's representative to the state legislature In this position, he helped get laws passed that favored Grange interests. Fake was a member of the
American Legion, the
Freemasons, the
Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias, the
Farm Bureau, the
Chamber of Commerce, the
New York State Agricultural Society, Fake died from a
heart attack at the Syracuse Community Hospital on May 24, 1963. He was in
Syracuse to attend a meeting of the
New York State Fair Board. He was buried in Cobleskill Rural Cemetery. == References ==