Bound Volumes, Hometown History
April 24, 2025
70 YEARS AGO
A new physical therapy department, a new basal metabolism and electro-cardiograph room and a new three-bed patients’ room in the enlarged and improved Fox Hospital will be made possible by a memorial gift of $43,200 received from Mrs. Beatrice W. Blanding, president and principal owner of the Oneonta Sales Co., Inc. One of the rooms selected by Mrs. Blanding will stand as a memorial to her father Riley J. Warren, who in 1912 founded the company which has continued ever since as the agency for Ford cars. Mr. Warren, who was born in Pleasant Brook, had a country store there for many years. He served two terms as Otsego County treasurer before establishing his new venture in Oneonta. His daughter assisted him as a partner in the business until his death in 1941 when she and her mother took over the business.
April 1955
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