Bound Volumes, Hometown History
August 27, 2026
160 Years Ago
The citizens of Oneonta and vicinity are requested to meet at the High School room on Friday evening, August 24, for the purpose of organizing a Society to procure funds to erect a monument to the memory of soldiers from this town, who died while in the service or were killed during the late rebellion: E.L. Ford, L.S. Osborn, D.J. Yager, Jay Champlin, A.F. Wing, E.M. Vosburgh, N.I. Ford, E.C. Bundy, A. Mendel, S. Brownson, N.C. Moak, D.M. Miller, P.C. Burton, E. Crowell, Samuel H. Case, Timothy Sabin, John Cope, Jr., Geo. O. Phelps, T.S. Gault, C.A. Clark, Jas. H. Keyes, Wm. Johnston, S.S. Burnside, E.W. Hopkins, H.N. Van Dusen, L.L. Bundy, Josiah Farmer, James Roberts, N. Bridges.
August 1866
110 Years Ago
The weather in Oneonta—It is the verdict of the oldest inhabitant of Oneonta, and of many others, that never in their recollection has there been in Oneonta such a combination of heat and drought as has distinguished the present week. Saturday was warm enough; Sunday was hotter and dryer; and Monday was hottest and driest. That there will be a change for the better, which means for cooler air and a considerable more moisture, is what everybody is asking. There was a rainbow Monday morning just at sunrise, and a few minutes afterwards there was a slight shower—not enough to lay the dust, but just to encourage the belief that there was something in the old saw about a rainbow in the morning. Later, and only a little later, the sky was clear, and the unclouded sun got in its effective work.
August 1916
30 Years Ago
Republican candidate Bob Dole regretfully called his failure to address the NAACP last month a “missed opportunity” as he pledged Friday to wage an all-out fight for the “hearts and minds” of black Americans. “We’re going to earn it,” Dole told the National Association of Black Journalists. Dole also repudiated a plank in the GOP platform—adopted just last week at the party’s convention in San Diego—advocating for a constitutional amendment to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants. “I would not support that part of the platform,” Dole said during a lively question and answer session with journalists. Dole, who has no blacks in top campaign jobs, also was asked what black Americans he had consulted in coming up with his programs and views. He cited discussions with civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Meanwhile President Bill Clinton is keeping his promise to reduce the impact of the new welfare overhaul law on legal aliens. Clinton’s measures ensure that benefits for legal immigrants are continued through an expedited citizenship process.
August 1996
