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County: Oneida

Natalie Zane Moore Babbitt

(1932-2016) Author. Natalie Babbitt was born in Dayton, Ohio, and died in Hamden, Connecticut. Ms. Babbitt taught at and her husband was president of Kirkland College in Clinton, New York.

Charles E Fritch

(1927-2012) Author. Charles Fritch was born and grew up in Utica, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was a fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer and editor.

Richard N Current

(1912-2012) Historian. Richard N. Current was born in Colorado City, now part of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He was know as a Civil War historian.

Philip Memmer

Philip Memmer is a widely published poet, and Executive Director of The YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Mid-American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest, and in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day and Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern … Continued

Henry Highland Garnet

(1815-1882) Essayist, speech writer, clergyman. Born a slave in Maryland, he escaped with family to New York City in 1824. He was educated at the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, New York. He wrote the very important speech/essay “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America.” It called upon slaves to rise up against … Continued