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Letter: G

Jay Gould

Autocratic speculator and businessman, who was also a little known writer. He was born and brought up near Roxbury, N.Y. He wrote “A History of Delaware County” (1856).

Frank Gannett

Writer, publisher. “Gazette,” “The Gannett Company,” owned a half-interest in the Elmira newspaper. Born in Bristol, lived and died in Rochester.

John Gardner

(1933-1982) Novelist, medieval scholar. John Gardner was born, and is also buried, in Batavia, New York. He grew up in Alexander, New York. He taught at SUNY Binghamtom, New York.