Warder Henry Cadbury

ALBANY Warder Henry Cadbury of Albany, N.Y., died suddenly on August 17, 2004 at his summer home in Indian Lake, N.Y. with his wife, Judy at his side. Born a birthright Quaker 3, January 1925 in Cambridge, Mass., the son of Henry J. and Lydia C. Cadbury. Warder was educated at Westtown School, Haverford College and Yale University. He taught philosophy at Boston University and Earlham College before coming to Albany in 1963 to join the newly created philosophy department at the University of New York at Albany. He was beloved and much admired by his students, respected by his colleagues and achieved tenure an associate professor in 1970. He retired in 1994. Soon after arriving in Albany, through serendipity he met Julia M. Graham, then director of the International Center. They married in 1965. Warder was an extraordinarily sensitive husband and father of their two children, Joel, 37, of Ithaca, N.Y. and Adrianne, 35, of Seattle, Wash. He is also survived by a sister, Elizabeth of Kennett Square, Pa. and brother, Christopher of Rhinebeck, N.Y., in addition to numerous loving nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his sister, Winifred Beer, who died in 1996. Cadbury's family ran a Quaker retreat for adults, Back Log Camp, on the shores of Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains from 1910 to 1968. The camp remains in the family. This association with the wilderness of upstate New York led to Cadbury's lifelong interest in and scholarship on North Country history and the arts. He was the biographer of two 19th century figures in Adirondack history: lecturer and writer, William H. H. Adirondack Murray [Adventures in the Wilderness (Syracuse University Press, 1969)], and landscape artist, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait [Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks (University of Delaware Press, 1986)]. Cadbury was a research associate for the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake since its inception in 1957, helping the museum build their collection of Adirondack literature and art, and generously sharing his knowledge with others doing research in Adirondack culture. He was a recipient of the Adirondack Museum's Founder's Award in 1997. Two memorial services are planned, the first will be held at the Adirondack Museum on Sunday, August 29 at 2 p.m., a celebration of Warder's life by Adirondack associates and friends. The second memorial service will be held in Albany this autumn, under the care of the Albany Friends Meeting, at a date to be determined. Those wishing to remember Warder can send a donation to the Cadbury Fund for professional staff and visiting scholars at the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 12812 or to the Indian Lake Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Indian Lake, NY 12842. The family is most appreciative of the Brewer Funeral Home in Lake Luzerne.