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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14-15, 2013
MARK PRESIDENTS’ DAY 2013 • MONDAY, FEB. 18, 2013
PRESIDENTS
& Otsego County
FDR, White House Bound,
Hosted At Van Hornesville
TOURS HALL: In the early 1980s, George W. Bush, who recently had been working on his father’s presidential campaign, showed up at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and received a guided tour. At the time, he was an owner of the Texas Rangers. He defeated Anne Richards for governor of Texas in 1984, and the rest is history.
2 IN ONEONTA: It’s said that both William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt were guests of Congressman George Fairchild’s Oneonta mansion, now the Masonic Temple at Former Main Street Fairchild and Grand Mansion. Avenue. Fairchild was Ways & Means chairman, and later first chairman of IBM. GARFIELD ROOTS: President James Garfield’s grandfather Abram settled in Worcester and his father was born there, later moving out to Ohio, where the future president was born.
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Seventh-graders Shelby Peplinski, left, and Sonae Edick admire a portrait that FDR signed to “the teachers and the boys and girls of the Van Hornesville School.” It still hangs in the hallway outside the school library.
His Appearance At 1931 Graduation Made School ‘Most Famous In World’ 1928, he founded the NationBy JIM KEVLIN al Broadcasting Co., today’s NBC. VAN HORNESVILLE An international lawyer, in 1929 he devised the Young n his day, Owen D. Plan, revising World War I Young, raised on a farm reparations to save Germany here, just north of the from hyper-inflation and Otsego/Herkimer county collapse. That won him imline, was one of the most mortality as Time magazine’s famous men in the United “Man of the Year” in 1929. States of America. Through all this, he didn’t In 1919, he created RCA, FDR’s official forget his hometown, where presidential the Radio Corporation of he determined to build and America, to combat foreign portrait. endow what today is 200-stucontrol of the fledgling dent Owen D. Young Central Valedictorian Rita Moyer delivers her address. Roosevelt is seated behind her. Seated to his right is Owen D. industry; radio then was what the School. It opened in 1930, and the Young, his host. To his left is Guernsey Cross, identified Internet is today. In 1922, he became first graduation was in June 1931. as “secretary to the governor” – or was he a bodyguard? president of General Electric. In Please See FDR, B3
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AT THE FAIR: In 1885, his last year in office, 21st President Chester Allen Arthur, a former New York governor, attended the Central New York Fair in Oneonta’s Belmont Circle neighborhood. AFTER THE WAR: During his retirement tour of Revolutionary War battlefield, George Washington visited the scene of the Cherry Valley Massacre on July 31, 1783, and the next day stopped at Cooperstown, where General Clinton had dammed the Susquehanna en route to razing Oqaga. LITTLE LOST VAN: President Martin “Little Van” Van Buren got lost on his way back to town after a party at Cooperstown’s Woodside Hall, then owned by Samuel Beall, husband of Susan Fenimore Cooper.
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