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March 14, 2024

210 YEARS AGO

“Geographic & Military Museum.” We have received the first number of a paper published in Albany, by Samuel R. Brown, under this title. We would recommend it to the attention of the public as worthy of patronage. In the meantime, we give our readers his very eccentric Dedication. “To the brave and patriotic, who are willing to expend blood or treasure in defence of the Republic; no matter in what state or on what river residing, or to what party or sect belonging, the Museum is most respectfully dedicated – not with a humble ‘s’il vous plait,’ for patronage, but with full confidence that it will deserve and command it. I shall conduct this paper according to my own notions of propriety. The seductive influences of smiles, frowns, friendship, resentment, gratitude, party-feeling, local attachments and state interest, shall not divert the Museum from its object…the national interest. After this brief explanation, it will be useless for anyone to approach me with a collusive wink of the eye and a whisper.”

March 12, 1814

185 YEARS AGO

Otego—At a special town meeting of the Town of Otego, County of Otsego, held at the hotel of O. Baldwin, on the second day of March, 1839, pursuant to public notice, to take into consideration the subject of dividing the County of Otsego, and placing a County seat at Oneonta. A committee of five was appointed to draft and submit resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. Resolved: “That the project now before the Legislature, presented by citizens of the Town of Oneonta for the division of the County of Otsego, is incompatible with the interests of a very large majority of the inhabitants of the territory proposed to be embraced.”

March 11, 1839

110 YEARS AGO

The body of Francis McRorie of Milford, who had been missing since the blizzard on March 1, was found almost completely covered by snow two and one half miles from his home and some distance from his horse and cutter which he had abandoned during the blizzard. McRorie had journeyed to Middlefield where he called upon Miss Lucy Pratt at the home of Claire North. Despite the efforts of the North family to induce McRorie to remain overnight, on account of the raging blizzard, he determined to start for Milford at 5 o’clock. The following Saturday, March 7, searchers found McRorie’s horse lying on its back in a drift 40 rods from the road that passes the Dubbin and Bedell farms. Then, 30 rods from the horse, near a rail fence, they found McRorie’s body lying face down with his hands doubled beneath him.

March 11, 1914

35 YEARS AGO

The Friends of the Parks have received a folk art style painting by Janet Munro which will be used to raise funds for the new buildings at Three-Mile Point. Mayor Harold Hollis will unveil the painting in a special ceremony at Pioneer Park on Sunday, May 28, at 4 p.m. It will be placed on display at Gallery 53 following its unveiling. “The painting has our local parks as its subject matter. It is such a delightful rendering that we feel it will appeal to many people,” said Jane Patrick, chairman of the friends.

March 15, 1989

20 YEARS AGO

On Friday, March 5, the Cooperstown High School Student Council hosted the third annual Jared Good Memorial Ping-Pong Tournament. The tourney was set up to serve in loving memory of Jared Good—known as an avid Ping-Pong player—who lost the battle against cystic fibrosis in 2000. All proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in the name of Jared Good. Finn Duesenberry won the boys’ title and Dory Dawson dominated the girls’ division.

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