BOUND VOLUMES
Compiled by Tom Heitz from The Freeman's Journal
Editor's Note: Due to limited space configurations due to this week's 2015 Otsego County Yearbook in The Freeman's Journal, the Bound Volumes feature is being published online. It returns next week to our print edition. Enjoy!
200 YEARS AGO
The Albany Argus contains a list of newspapers published in the State of New York, from which it appears there are published in the State 77 papers – 42 of which are republican, 33 federal, and 2 neutral; of these 8 are daily papers, and three semi-weekly. The Argus observes: “If the average number of papers from each press be estimated at 700 at each publication, it gives an aggregate of 84,000 per week, or of 4,368,000 annually. The cost of the paper, at a moderate calculation, exceeds $40,000. There are also published in the state, several literary, scientific works, and four county newspapers issued from daily offices, which are not included in this estimate.”
January 4, 1816
150 YEARS AGO
Only two survivors of all those who participated in the War of the Revolution so far as known by the Commissioner of Pensions, remain – Wm. Hutchison, of Penobscot, Hancock County, ME, aged 101 years, and Lemuel Cook, of Clarendon, Orleans County, New York, aged 99 years, and only five widows of revolutionary soldiers draw pensions from the government at a yearly amount of $293.
