 It is at this time that Jay and his wife, Edith, founded the Lake Marshall Hotel as a boarding house for tourists in summer and to support the ice harvesting effort in winter.In winter, it was common for farmers to live in boarding houses near ice harvesting operations since there was very little farm work to be done.Initially, the boarding house may have been managed by various proprietors, including George Transue in 1911 and Farley Pipher who ran the business from 1914 to 1918.