On June 20, 1938, the Frankfort Street School was named in honor of longtime teacher and principal Sarah M. Piper (1877-1949). It was torn down ca. 1959/1960. St. Mary's School was then built on the spot and opened in 1962 - now the building is the __ __. (2 words)
A native of Perth, Scotland, John Porteus ( -1799) was a fur trader in Detroit and a merchant in New York City that came to __ __ in 1790 as an agent for land owner Alexander Ellice, where he became a citizen of the US and lived until his death in 1799. (2 words)
Paul Henry Quackenbush II (1933-1991) of Herkimer, gr-grandson of #3 Down, started a private flight school at the __ County Airport in 1974 and turned it into a million dollar regional airline called Empire Airlines.
Samuel T. Russell (1853-1929), son of #6 Down, presented 168 acres to the village of Ilion in 1923 with the condition it always be used as a public __.
Rev. Frank Reed (1895-1980) of Old Forge ministered to the logging camps and filmed and documented the logging history of the southwestern __, authoring the book "Lumberjack Sky Pilot" in 1965.
Philo Remington (1816-1889), son of #14 Across, was the first to manufacture a new printing machine devised in the 1860s by Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden. It was the __.
It all started with the "forge in the __" by Eliphalet Remington, Jr. (1793-1861) when he forged the first Remington rifle barrel in 1816.
Clara Illig (1886-1968) of Ilion was one of the first __ to go overseas during WW1, even going before any of the US soldiers, serving from May 8, 1917 until April 3, 1919. She treated patients at No. 9 British General Hospital at Ronen, France.
Zenas Priest (1806-1887) of Little Falls was a well known railroad man, being the superintendent of the New York Central Syracuse-Utica Division. Before that, he was a merchant selling his wares on a canal barge and later had a __ catering to the canallers, his specialty being a "soda biscuit."