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Parke Godwin

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(1816-1904) Writer, editor, publisher. Parke Godwin was the son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant and lived in Nassau County, New York.

Hamlin Garland

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(1860-1940) Writer, poet. Hamlin Garland spent his summers in Onteora Park from 1917 to the 1930s. He was born near West Salem, Wisconsin; lived in Manhattan. He grew up in the middle western farmlands, the region he later wrote about in verse, stories, and autobiography. His tales, collected as “Main-travelled Roads” (1891), “Prairie Folks” (1893), … Continued

Jay Gould

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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

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

John Gardner

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(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.