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By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History

   A national family history television show recently focused on a celebrity’s ancestors in the Mohawk Valley.

   Actor Nick Offerman and a production crew from NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” recorded interviews at sites in the Albany area and the Old Courthouse in Fonda, home to Montgomery County’s history and genealogical collections, and the Johnstown Public Library, in the city founded by British colonial leader Sir William Johnson.

   Offerman is best known for his role as Ron Swanson in the sitcom “Parks and Recreation.”  Researchers traced his roots to a Mohawk Valley couple, Bartholomew and Eva Pickard and their grandson, Joseph Mabee.

   Montgomery County historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar said that members of the Mohawk nation complained about Eva Pickard, “Their complaint was that she owned a tavern around the area we know today as Indian Castle which is actually in Herkimer County.  They complained that she would get them drunk and have them sign away their land.”

   Farquhar said there are references to this issue in documents in the Sir William Johnson papers, copies of which are at the Johnstown library.  Pickard apparently was removed from her land.

   Years later her grandson Joseph Mabee was able to recover a lot of that land in return for his military service with the rebels in the Revolutionary War.

   By then Sir William Johnson was deceased.  His family and many Mohawks and others loyal to the British crown had left the Mohawk Valley.

   At the end of the TV show Offerman and relatives are seen standing on the land in question, located in the Herkimer County town of Danube west of Minden in Montgomery County.

   Neither Farquhar nor Erica Wing of the Johnstown library was interviewed on camera.  Farquhar, who has been with the county history department for 26 years, said, “I was OK with that because I was very nervous thinking about whether I would be on camera  A lot of people were hoping the local historians would be filmed as well.  I think the historians they had on did a fantastic job relating what was going on at that time.”

   Offerman and history professor Tim Shannon of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania discussed Offerman’s ancestry on the TV show in an interview filmed in Fonda.

   Shannon said, “(Offerman) seemed very much interested in learning about the Mohawks and their relations with the colonists there.  I was glad to have the occasion to visit the Montgomery County Department of History and Archives and appreciated the staff's willingness to accommodate the film shoot.”

  Originally the TV show was to start production in March 2020 but the work was postponed by the pandemic.  Production actually began in September, 2021.

   Farquhar credits county supervisors with foresight for creating the Department of History and Archives in 1934.  There was Depression-era federal funding available to have the staff then document area history. 

   The staff would get copies of church and cemetery records from across the state because at one time Montgomery County and its predecessor Tryon County encompassed territory west of Schenectady to Central New York, north to Canada and south to Pennsylvania. 

   Farquhar said over 30 counties can trace their origins back to Montgomery and Tryon County. “That’s why genealogists and local history researchers come here to do research.”

   An event is being planned in Fonda on Saturday, August 27, to mark the 250th anniversary of the creation of Tryon County, the British colonial name for what became Montgomery County.

   That day there will be historical tours of the area, artisan and militia reenactors and a new promotional video for the Department of History and Archives.

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Monday, August 8, 2022- The story behind the story podcast- Who Do You Think You Are? comes to Fonda.

Tuesday, August 9, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Homeless artist drawn to country homes

Wednesday, August 10, 2022-From the Archives-March 26, 2021-Episode 363-How the Adirondack forest preserve was motorized.  The guest is John Warren, founder and editor of New York Almanack.

Thursday, August 11, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette—Former Mayor was friends with FDR .

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   A national family history television show recently focused on a celebrity’s ancestors in the Mohawk Valley.

   Actor Nick Offerman and a production crew from NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” recorded interviews at sites in the Albany area and the Old Courthouse in Fonda

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Friday, August 5-Episode 434-NBC TV has aired an episode of their popular family history show Who Do You Think You Are including scenes filmed in Fonda and Johnstown.  Actor Nick Offerman (who plays Ron Swanson in the sitcom Parks and Recreation) traced his ancestors to families from upstate New York. Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar, Montgomery County New York historian, explains why Fonda’s Old Courthouse is a mecca for genealogists and upstate New York historians.

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Who Do You Think You Are? comes to Fonda.  

Actor Nick Offerman and a production crew from NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” recorded interviews at sites in the Albany area and the Old Courthouse in Fonda...

Thanks to a very generous $1000 donation from John Lauriello, the Historians Podcast yearly fund drive now stands at $4,300!  John is an Amsterdam native and benefactor who heads Southpace Properties, a Birmingham, Alabama, based commercial real estate firm.  John writes, “Thank you for your great stories about our hometown and the surrounding area for so many years.”  Please help reach our $6000 goal for the year by donating online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022  Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. 

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Bob Cudmore –August 2022

Thanks to a very generous $1000 donation from John Lauriello, the Historians Podcast yearly fund drive now stands at $4,300!  John is an Amsterdam native and benefactor who heads Southpace Properties, a Birmingham, Alabama, based commercial real estate firm.  John writes, “Thank you for your great stories about our hometown and the surrounding area for so many years.”  Please help reach our $6000 goal for the year by donating online here- https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-historians-podcast-2022  Or send a check made out to Bob Cudmore to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. 

Here’s the schedule (subject to change):

Friday, August 5-Episode 434-NBC TV has aired an episode of their popular family history show Who Do You Think You Are including scenes filmed in Fonda and Johnstown.  Actor Nick Offerman (who plays Ron Swanson in the sitcom Parks and Recreation) traced his ancestors to families from upstate New York. Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar, Montgomery County New York historian, explains why Fonda’s Old Courthouse is a mecca for genealogists and upstate New York historians.

Friday, August 12-Episode 435-Susanne Dunlap discusses her book The Portraitist, a novel based on the life of 18th century French artist Adélaïde Labilleo-Guiard whose life went on amid the changes and terror of the French Revolution.

Friday, August 19- Episode 436-Stephen Williams is author of Off the Northway, a collection of newspaper columns written by Williams, who retired after 42-years at the Daily Gazette in Schenectady.  One of the principal topics is the history of the GlobalFoundries semiconductor facility in Malta, which employs three thousand people and plans a second plant at its Luther Forest location.

Friday, August 26-Episode 437-Bob Cudmore’s Focus on History columns from Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder in 2022 provide information for this chit chat podcast with Dave Greene.  Hear stories about Amsterdam’s connections with Ukraine, World War II, Amsterdam’s link with Jeff Buckley’s version of the “secret chord” and the Polish cowboy. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022-From the Archives- Episode 70, July 19, 2015 – He spoke to thousands in outdoor gatherings, he became the voice and face of a religious revival in Colonial America. Jessica Parr is the author of “Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon.”

Tomorrow, Thursday, August 4, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Labor trouble in the 1880s

Friday, August 5, 2022-Episode 434-NBC TV has aired an episode of their family history show Who Do You Think You Are including scenes filmed in Fonda and Johnstown.  Actor Nick Offerman (who plays Ron Swanson in the sitcom Parks and Recreation) traced his ancestors to families from upstate New York. Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar, Montgomery County New York historian, explains why Fonda’s Old Courthouse is a mecca for genealogists and upstate New York historians. 

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Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar, Montgomery County New York historian, explains why Fonda’s Old Courthouse is a mecca for genealogists and upstate New York historians.

Episode 434

NBC TV has aired an episode of their family history show Who Do You Think You Are including scenes filmed in Fonda and Johnstown.  Actor Nick Offerman (who plays Ron Swanson in the sitcom Parks and Recreation) traced his ancestors to families from upstate New York. 

Tuesday, August 2, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Stores, a snowman and an 1880s newspaper.

          Many people remember the Enterprise store on Amsterdam’s East Main Street.  However, Emil Suda of Amsterdam is eager to find a photo of the store that preceded it—Montgomery Ward. 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022-From the Archives- Episode 70, July 19, 2015 – He spoke to thousands in outdoor gatherings, he became the voice and face of a religious revival in Colonial America. Jessica Parr is the author of “Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon.”

Thursday, August 4, 2022- From the Archives of the Daily Gazette-Labor trouble in the 1880s

The undertaker and the telephone

By Bob Cudmore

   Historian and undertaker W. Maxwell Reid was one of the first to install a telephone in the Amsterdam area.

   Reid visited the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and was impressed by a demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone.

   When Reid returned home, he had wires strung between a casket plant in Amsterdam and a store in Broadalbin.

   How this early telephone worked was described in a Chamber of Commerce publication, “Twice a day at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., the persons at each end of the line, by a process of shouting into the telephones, and then moving the same instruments to their ears to hear what was shouted back, were able to carry on a conversation over the intervening ten miles.”

   William Maxwell Reid was born in 1839 on his father’s farm, land which later became the Reid Hill neighborhood.  Reid’s father was from Scotland.  He was also a school teacher, librarian and justice of the peace.

   Ultimately Reid took over the company after his father-in-law died and.  Reid also operated his own undertaking business.

  Reid was a founder of the business-boosting Board of Trade in 1884 and president of the organization for seventeen years. 

   Reid is known as an historian for his 1901 book, “The Mohawk Valley: Its Legends and Its History.”  Reid also wrote a history column for the Recorder newspaper using the byline “The Hollander Letters.”

      Reid died in 1911 at age 72.  He and his wife lived on Spring Street, what is now Guy Park Avenue and had three children. 

   Other 1870s phone lines connected Amsterdam’s New York Central Railroad freight office with the Sanford carpet mill and Kelloggs & Miller’s linseed oil plant.  The homes of linseed oil magnates John, George and Lauren Kellogg had early telephones.

   Another local telephone pioneer was William Charles, who operated a cotton and wool brokerage business.  In 1940, Charles was still living in Amsterdam and had telephone number “1.”

   Historian Hugh Donlon wrote, “By 1881, the Amsterdam Telegraph and Telephone Company, locally organized, was operating a switchboard of 50 lines from a central office at East Main and Church streets.”

   Several companies competed for telephone customers in Amsterdam but after a time, competition cut the number of companies to two—the locally based Automatic Telephone Company and Hudson River Telephone, part of the growing Bell system’s national network.

   Hudson River opened a new central exchange at 40 Division Street and Automatic created a new facility at 19 Pearl Street.  By 1910, though, the battle was over and New York Telephone—successor to Hudson River—took over phone service to some 1,500 Amsterdam customers.

   To promote long distance calling a few years later the phone company invited 200 people to a public phone conversation at the Elks Lodge between Amsterdam Mayor James R. Cline and Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco.  George Scott, exalted ruler of the Amsterdam Elks, conversed with the exalted ruler of a San Francisco lodge.

   Donlon wrote, “Despite the ballyhoo, cross-country talk failed to gain immediate popularity with frugal townspeople.  Rates were comparatively high and it was more economical to write a letter when speed was not particularly important.”

  A picture which accompanied a 1942 article about telephones showed a row of 15 seated female operators and two supervisors at the Amsterdam office of New York Telephone, then at 40 Division Street.

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This Friday Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar, Montgomery County New York historian, explains why Fonda’s Old Courthouse is a mecca for genealogists and upstate New York historians.

Friday, August 5, 2022-Episode 434-NBC TV has aired an episode of their family history show Who Do You Think You Are including scenes filmed in Fonda and Johnstown.  Actor Nick Offerman (who plays Ron Swanson in the sitcom Parks and Recreation) traced his ancestors to families from upstate New York. 

The undertaker and the telephone

By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History

   Historian and undertaker W. Maxwell Reid was one of the first to install a telephone in the Amsterdam area.

   Reid visited the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and was impressed by a demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone.

   When Reid returned home, he had wires strung between a casket plant in Amsterdam and a store in Broadalbin.

   How this early telephone worked was described in a Chamber of Commerce publication, “Twice a day at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., the persons at each end of the line, by a process of shouting into the telephones, and then moving the same instruments to their ears to hear what was shouted back, were able to carry on a conversation over the intervening ten miles.”

   William Maxwell Reid was born in 1839 on his father’s farm, land which later became the Reid Hill neighborhood.  Reid’s father was from Scotland.  He was also a school teacher, librarian and justice of the peace.

   Ultimately Reid took over the company after his father-in-law died and.  Reid also operated his own undertaking business.

  Reid was a founder of the business-boosting Board of Trade in 1884 and president of the organization for seventeen years. 

   Reid is known as an historian for his 1901 book, “The Mohawk Valley: Its Legends and Its History.”  Reid also wrote a history column for the Recorder newspaper using the byline “The Hollander Letters.”

      Reid died in 1911 at age 72.  He and his wife lived on Spring Street, what is now Guy Park Avenue and had three children. 

   Other 1870s phone lines connected Amsterdam’s New York Central Railroad freight office with the Sanford carpet mill and Kelloggs & Miller’s linseed oil plant.  The homes of linseed oil magnates John, George and Lauren Kellogg had early telephones.

Tomorrow, Monday, August 1, 2022- The story behind the story podcast-The undertaker and the telephone. 

   Another local telephone pioneer was William Charles, who operated a cotton and wool brokerage business.  In 1940, Charles was still living in Amsterdam and had telephone number “1.”

   Historian Hugh Donlon wrote, “By 1881, the Amsterdam Telegraph and Telephone Company, locally organized, was operating a switchboard of 50 lines from a central office at East Main and Church streets.”

   Several companies competed for telephone customers in Amsterdam but after a time, competition cut the number of companies to two—the locally based Automatic Telephone Company and Hudson River Telephone, part of the growing Bell system’s national network.

   Hudson River opened a new central exchange at 40 Division Street and Automatic created a new facility at 19 Pearl Street.  By 1910, though, the battle was over and New York Telephone—successor to Hudson River—took over phone service to some 1,500 Amsterdam customers.

   To promote long distance calling a few years later the phone company invited 200 people to a public phone conversation at the Elks Lodge between Amsterdam Mayor James R. Cline and Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco.  George Scott, exalted ruler of the Amsterdam Elks, conversed with the exalted ruler of a San Francisco lodge.

   Donlon wrote, “Despite the ballyhoo, cross-country talk failed to gain immediate popularity with frugal townspeople.  Rates were comparatively high and it was more economical to write a letter when speed was not particularly important.”

  A picture which accompanied a 1942 article about telephones showed a row of 15 seated female operators and two supervisors at the Amsterdam office of New York Telephone, then at 40 Division Street.

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Saturday, July 30, 2022 on The Historians

Episode 433-A history of the Mohawk River with Mary Zawacki, executive director of the Schenectady County Historical Society. 

When the last Ice Age began to melt 22,000 years ago, the Mohawk River flowed with more force than Niagara Falls.

From the Archives- October 26, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 238- Sue Ingalls Finan discusses her historical novel “The Cards Don’t Lie.”  The book is based on real-life accounts of women during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.  The victory of General Andrew Jackson over the British at New Orleans effectively ended the War of 1812.

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W. Max Reid married Laura MacDonald in 1859.  Her father was a partner in the Shuler casket making company, started by woodworker Isaac Shuler. 

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Yeggmen and other tales

By Bob Cudmore

Historian Christopher K. Philippo of Glenmont had to consult the Oxford English Dictionary to explain a newspaper account of a burglary in Mayfield in 1914.

The article from the Amsterdam Recorder reported, “A couple of professional yeggmen visited Mayfield late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, blew open the safe in the store of Thomas Embling and secured over $540 in cash.  They also took a large amount of cigars, tobacco and cigarettes as well as several articles of clothing.”

Yeggmen?  According to Philippo, “Yegg” apparently was the last name of an American burglar and safe cracker in the early 1900s and the words “yegg” and “yeggman” were used to refer to safe crackers.

In the case of the 1914 burglary at Embling’s store, Sheriff William J. Sheppard and Undersheriff Frank Keaveney led the investigation.  Later newspaper accounts indicate that Max Finn, Louis Cohen and John Smith were indicted.  It’s not clear if the men were convicted.  Finn’s attorney told the Schenectady Gazette that in his opinion Fulton County authorities had no case.

There are numerous newspaper accounts of burglaries at Embling’s store.  Embling himself was fined once for failing to collect some taxes.  In 1907 Embling was supervisor of the town of Mayfield and treated his fellow supervisors to dinner and after dinner toasts at Hammond’s club house on the road between Mayfield and Gloversville.

Mayfield historian Betty Tabor wrote that Embling was from England and opened his Mayfield store in the late 1800s. 

Tabor wrote in 1994, “Embling sold a large variety of goods such as groceries, flour, feed, hoes, and wallpaper.  Several of Mayfield’s older residents remember this store, and the store's sign has been given to the Mayfield Historical Society, after an area resident discovered it in his home being used as a bookshelf.”

Embling ran the store until 1928 when he went back to England.  The building is the current home of the Mayfield Servicemen’s Club on South School Street.  Tabor said that in 1987 when the building was being remodeled by the servicemen, a package of tobacco was found in the wall, dated 1898.  Over 100 people are Servicemen’s Club members, veterans from World War II through the present.  

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Philippo found another crime story in the Gloversville Leader in 1901.

"John Woodward partially filled himself on liquid refreshments yesterday afternoon and then went to Englert's market on Bleeker street, where he proceeded to fill up the space which was not occupied by liquor, and after eating a large quantity of dried beef, bologna and other food, he informed the boy in charge of the market that he would settle the bill as soon as ice froze over an orthodox lake of unusual heat.  Woodward left the market and met Officer Louis Sperber, and the latter arrested him on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct.  This morning Recorder Wood sent him to jail for thirty days.”

Tomorrow, Friday, July 29, 2022-Episode 433-A history of the Mohawk River with Mary Zawacki, executive director of the Schenectady County Historical Society.  When the last Ice Age began to melt 22,000 years ago, the Mohawk River flowed with more force than Niagara Falls.

Saturday, July 30 2022-From the Archives- October 26, 2018-Historians Podcast Episode 238- Sue Ingalls Finan discusses her historical novel “The Cards Don’t Lie.”  The book is based on real-life accounts of women during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.  The victory of General Andrew Jackson over the British at New Orleans effectively ended the War of 1812.

1814: It’s the third year of the United States second War of Independence. The British are on the verge of capturing the strategically important port of New Orleans. In the midst of the Americans’ chaotic preparations for battle, three women play key roles in the defense of the city: Catherine, a free woman of color, voodoo priestess, and noted healer personally summoned by General Andrew Jackson; Marguerite, a pampered Creole plantation mistress prone to out-of-body experiences; and Millie, a plucky, patriotic prostitute inspired by her pirate lover to serve in the most dangerous capacity of all.

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