A retired New York State librarian, avid outdoorsman and native of Bangor, Maine, Fiske was known for his work on Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted from Saratoga Springs and sold into slavery.
By Bob Cudmore Bruce Anderson, a Black war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, in a daring mission during the battle of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, near the end of the Civil War. Anderson was born in 1845, presumably in Mexico City, then worked a
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By Bob Cudmore Samuel Goldwyn, one of the hard driving moguls who led the Hollywood movie industry in the 20th century, lived in Gloversville as a young man. Born Schmuel Gelbfish (aka Gelbfisz) in Warsaw, Poland’s Jewish ghetto around 1879, Gelbfish came to the United States possibly by way o