Frank Baillargeon

Frank Baillargeon lives in Eagle, Idaho, with his wife, Pat. Frank was born and raised on Van Schaick Island in Cohoes, New York. It's here that the Mohawk River leaps over a towering waterfall before flowing into the Hudson River. Frank studied at Sacred Heart School on "the island." He graduated from Keveny Memorial Academy in Cohoes. Frank received an AA in Humanities from Hudson Valley Community College, then a BA in American History from the University of Rochester in 1975. Frank and Pat married at nineteen, welcomed a son at twenty, a daughter at twenty-two, and adopted a son during Frank's final year at Rochester at age twenty-six. Our three children have given us nine grandchildren. Frank accepted a position with Eastman Kodak in 1975 and enjoyed forty-four years in various roles in the photographic industry, the final eighteen as president of F/22 Consulting. Upon retiring in 2018, Frank organized the research that he and his late father had collected and shared about John Morrissey (1831-1878). My father was determined to drive a broader awareness of the Irish Catholic immigrant from across the river in Troy, New York. Frank dedicated Ambitions, a 3-book series of historical novels, to his father, Francis Joseph Baillargeon (1920-2004), who introduced his son to John Morrissey and made him a junior partner in continuing discovery. To learn more about Frank's historical novel, Ambitions, visit http://www.ambitions.me