Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, March 15, 1848
Death
Another of our old and most respected Citizens has gone down to the grave. William McLean, Esquire, after a long and lingering illness which he bore with fortitude and Christian resignation, died last Sunday morning in this village in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He was formerly a Citizen of Oneida County [NY] and printed and edited the first newspaper which was published in that county. The first number of this paper made its appearance, we believe, about the year 1795. It was called The Whitestown Gazette and Cato's Patrol. How wonderful that the man who printed the first newspaper published in the great, rich, and populous County of Oneida, was buried yesterday! In 1818 he came to this village and commenced printing The Cherry Valley Gazette which he continued until the year 1831, when the management of it was transferred to his son, Charles McLean, Esq. the present Clerk of this County. When Gen. Harrison was elected President in 1840, he was appointed Postmaster of this village [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY], which office he held for four years. About eighteen years ago, he was elected Town Clerk of Cherry Valley and was notwithstanding all the changes and fierce collisions of parties, unanimously re-elected by his neighbors and townsmen, until the last Town Meeting, when the state of his health did not permit him to be a candidate. He was literally a working man, and was, when he commenced his career in life, a Federalist of the Washington School. He never changed his principles. It is remarkable that though during the most bitter political controversies he conducted for many years a party newspaper, he has not left behind him a single personal enemy.
"A Wit's a feather, and a Chief's a rod, / An honest man's the noblest work of God."
Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, April 5, 1848
Marriage
In Middlefield [Otsego Co. NY], on the 22d ult. by Eld. R. E. Crandal, Mr. Sanders Jones and Miss Lucinda Buel.
Deaths
In Hartwick [Otsego Co. NY], on the 20th ult., David Kendall Esq., aged 59 years.
In Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], on the 25th ult. James Butts aged 35 years.
Another of the venerable relics of the Revolution has departed, we trust to receive the recompense of the just and patriotic. Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer a venerable soldier of the Revolution, expired in this city [Albany, Albany Co. NY] on Wednesday, in the 94th year of his age. Col. Van Rensselaer was with Montgomery at the storming of Quebec, was at Ticonderoga, Fort miller, Fort Ann, and at Bemis' Heights, in two engagements at the latter, and was deputed to convey the intelligence of the surrender of Burgoyne to Albany. What events did he not live to witness in the course of his nearly centennial existence! What progress in the history of the great country the liberties of which he fought to establish! Albany Argus.
Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, April 12, 1848
Marriages
In Westville [Franklin Co. NY], on the 28th ult. by Rev. G. Gates, Mr. Nathan G. Hall of Milford [Otsego Co. NY] to Miss Esther J. Hand of the former place.
In Oaksville on the 23d ult. by Wm. P. Johnson, Esq. Mr. Jeremiah Briggs of Penn Yan, Yates Co. [NY] to Mrs. Ruth Herrington of Otsego [Otsego Co. NY].
In this town [Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. NY] on the 9th inst. by Rev. J. Shank, Rev. Simeon W. Niles of Otsego [Otsego Co. NY] to Polly Wilson of this place.
Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, April 19, 1848
Deaths
On the 2nd inst., at the residence of Mr. Joseph Swift in Kendal Co., Illinois, Mr. Charles Ira McLean of Highland, Oakland Co., Mich., aged 28 years.
In Westford [Otsego Co. NY] on the 15th of February of consumption, Miss Abigail Washburn in the 22d year of her age.
Cherry Valley Gazette, Cherry Valley, NY, April 26, 1848
Marriages
In Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], on the 18th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Bartlett, Mr. John W. Ball to Miss Susan Willis, both of Exeter [Otsego Co. NY].
Springfield on the 2nd inst. by J.W. Brandow, Esq. Mr. Sylvester Clemmons to Miss Amelia Stewart.
Deaths
At Binghamton [Broome Co. NY] on the 7th inst. Theodore A. Thayer son of Ariel Thayer of Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY], aged 27 years.
At Cooperstown [Otsego Co. NY] on the 17th inst. Mrs. Martha Baldwin wife of the late Horace Baldwin in the 45th year of her age.
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