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Martha Clarvoe is a prominent member of the Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA). Clarvoe was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and later moved with her family to Maryland. In Maryland, Clarvoe attended high school and college. Clarvoe…

Frank Van Auken is a life-time resident of East Springfield, New York. He was born in 1920 in the house in which he currently resides. He has lived there all his life except for the four years he served in the United States Army during World War II.…

Donald A. Raddatz has been a rheumatologist in Cooperstown, NY for 31 years. He was born in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois and spent many years practicing medicine in both rural and urban places ranging from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Yonkers,…

Dorothy Hudson, known to friends and family as Dotty, was born on January 16, 1937 and spent her childhood in East Brunswick, New Jersey. After graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in microbiology, Dotty married her husband, Charles…

Dorothy Bolton is a lifetime resident of Burlington Flats, New York. She grew up as the daughter of a maple syrup producer and continued her agrarian lifestyle when she married a dairy farmer. Though farming remained a major aspect of Mrs. Bolton's…

A radiologist and specialist physician, Claire Beetlestone was born just outside Philadelphia in 1936. She has lived many places including Nigeria, Scotland, Connecticut, Arizona, and New York. Beetlestone credits her experiences living abroad to…

Dr. Charles J. Hudson has lived in Cooperstown since 1974. He was born in 1937 and grew up in Oak Tree, New Jersey. After attending Princeton and the McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Hudson spent time in Salt Lake City and then in Alaska,…

Marion Karl was born in 1928 in India where her parents were working as Baptist missionaries. She and her family returned to the United States from India at the cusp of the Second World War. Mrs. Karl went to Keuka College and Syracuse…

Eleanore Ellsworth MacDougall was born at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York in January, 1935. She was the oldest of three children in the Ellsworth family. Her 2 brothers are Bob, a physicist, and Paul, a chemist. Her grandfather, Ralph…

Erika Heinegg is a German immigrant living in Oneonta, NY. She was born in 1934 in Plӧn located in Schleswig-Holstein, the northern-most part of Germany located between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and bordering Denmark. During the World War II,…