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- TITLE: Tioga county, New York / Richard Quest, Tioga County Historical Society
- AUTHORS: Quest, Richard (Richard E.)
Tioga County Historical Society (Tioga County, N.Y.)
- PUBLISHED: Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, 1999.
- SUBJECT:
Tioga County (N.Y.) -- History
Tioga County (N.Y.) -- History -- Pictorial works
Tioga County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Tioga County (N.Y.) -- Buildings,structures, etc. -- Pictorial works
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- SERIES TITLE: (Images of America)
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- TITLE: Military Collection - Naval, 1812-1970
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- SUBJECT:
Public records
Photoprints
Logbooks
Maritime history
Ships Euphrates
Ships U.S.S. Constitution
Ships U.S.S. Preble
Ships U.S.S. Constellation
Ships U.S.S. Tioga County
Ships U.S. Iron Clad Ram Dictator
Ships U.S.S. Maine
Ships U.S.S. Texas
Ships U.S.S. Iowa
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 30 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Collection includes miscellaneous papers of and concerning the Prince de Neufchatel, a privateer in the War of 1812, 1812-1820; miscellaneous papers of the Euphrates, 1839-1907, including a log of the vessel's voyage from Havana to the African Coast where it was seized by the British; journal of Midshipman Thomas Putnam Farrington, kept during a naval cruise on the U.S.S. Preble, 1858; log of the U.S.S. Constellation, kept by Captain Francis A. Levis, 1885; boarding book of Captain Francis A. Levis, U.S. Revenue Service, recording activities of a Revenue Cutter, 1895; and miscellaneous papers of U.S.S. Tioga County, 1968-1970, including an account of the vessel's history.
- ABSTRACT: Prints of Mathew Brady photographs of Confederate ships, 1862-1865. Photo of the U.S. Iron Clad Ram Dictator, c.1860; of the U.S.S. Constitution, c.1860; and of the U.S.S. Maine, Texas and Iowa, c.1897. Also miscellaneous papers and pamphlets concerning the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Academy, 1869-1935.
- NOTES: Provenance note - Gifts, 1926-1978. Finding aids - Card catalog.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Public Records Collection, 1666-1916, 1780(approx.)-1880 (bulk)
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Berks, County of, England
Schuyler County, New York
Dryden, New York
Watkins-Flint Purchase
Land records, deeds and surveys
American Indians
Tioga County, New York -- Vital statistics
Divorce
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 85 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Affadavits, bonds, certificates of sale, deeds, indentures, marriage certificates, wills and other public documents, chiefly concerning Tioga County land and residents. Included are an indenture covering pre-nuptial property arrangements of John Williams the Younger and Martha Greenaway, County of Berks, England, 1666; a deed for property on the Delaware River, signed with X marks by 12 Indian chiefs, 1755; a deed transferring 400 acres in Tioga County to John Hollenbeck, signed by George Clinton, 1793; and the divorce announcement of George and Louisa J. Williams of Berkshire, 1873. Also a vellum deed conveying over 200,000 acres of land west of Owego Creek to Schuyler County and north of the Susquehanna River to Dryden by John and Judith Watkins to a company of men - known as the Watkins-Flint Purchase, 1794.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
- HOLDINGS: Go to the home page and do a search to locate this title, the libraries that has this title and its call number.
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- TITLE: Military Collection - Veterans' Organizations, 1866-1957
- SUBJECT:
Danby, New York
Windsor, New York
Veterans Organizations
Civil War
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 20 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Collection includes an invitation to a Civil War veterans' reception, Danby, 1866; clippings on Civil War veterans from the Windsor area, n.d., and a postcard photo of Civil War veterans, c.1918. Records of the Grand Army of the Republic Babcock Post No.59, including quartermaster's account book, 1884-1894, and minutes, 1892-1895. Original charter of Grand Army of the Republic Post No.646, 1890. Membership roll, Sons of Veterans Apalachin Camp No.89, 1889-1896. Record and minute books, American Legion Tioga Post No.401, 1920-1957.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Firemen Collection, 1828-1959, 1828-1920(approx.) (bulk)
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- SUBJECT:
Tioga County, New York -- Fire departments
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 235 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Collection consists chiefly of photos and miscellaneous papers of the Owego Fire Department, including a record book, 1828-1835; programs and invitations to various events, 1843-1959; correspondence and reports, 1860-1938; record books of the Board of Trustees, 1871-1916; and annual reports of the Chief Engineer, 1875-1879. By-laws of the various companies of the Owego Fire Department, 1861-1904, and minutes of Croton Engine Co. No.3, January 31, 1849. Photographs of Owego Fire Department Chiefs, 1844-1905, and general photos, c.1870-1919. Membership and merit certificates, Owego Fire Department, 1858-1915. Printed copy and typewritten manuscript of Leroy Kingman's History of the Owego Fire Department, 1828-1878, 1878. Also, by-laws, photos, and programs of the Waverly Fire Department, 1876-1905.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Cemetery Collection, 1828-1923, 1851-1923 (bulk)
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- SUBJECT:
Maps
Photoprints
East Newark Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery, Owego, New York
Greenwood Cemetery
Hope Cemetery, Newark Valley, New York
Highland Cemetery, Richford, New York
La Monte Cemetery, Owego, New York
Nichols Cemetery
Tioga Cemetery
Tioga County, New York -- Cemeteries
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 15 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Postcards, stereoscopic slides and miscellaneous papers concerning cemeteries in Tioga County, including East Newark Cemetery; Evergreen Cemetery, Owego; Greenwood Cemetery; Hope Cemetery, Newark Valley; Highland Cemetery, Richford; La Monte Cemetery, Owego; Nichols Cemetery; and Tioga Cemetery. Maps of Evergreen Cemetery, 1853 and 1912; La Monte Cemetery, 1919; and Tioga Cemetery, 1828. Record books, Evergreen Cemetery, 1851-1923.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Transportation Collection, 1805-1970(ca.), 1850(approx.)-1935(approx.) (bulk)
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- SUBJECT:
Susquehanna River
Owego, New York Roads
Tioga County, New York Transportation
Owego, New York Bridges
Travel
Railroads
Steamboats
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 300 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Articles, clippings, maps, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, and miscellaneous papers concerning transportation in Tioga County. Documents include a bond setting conditions for opening a road through Owego, 1805; a navigation chart of the Susquehanna River, 1818; a letter from B.T. Case of Montrose to Mr. James Pumpelly of Owego concerning the building of a bridge in Owego, 1824; the oath of office of Peter Robbins, stagecoach driver, 1825; railroad timetables, 1851-1926; diary of Washington Irving Leonard kept on a sea voyage around Cape Horn, 1852-1853; a bond for the Southern Central Railroad issued by Newark Valley, 1867; railroad maps of New York State, 1867-1953; miscellaneous records of the Owego Steam Navigation Company, 1882-1892; ledger kept by F.A. Levis on board a steamer bound for Singapore, Nagasaki and Panapi, 1886-1888; and correspondence of the Ithaca-Owego Traction Company concerning an attempt to build a trolley line between the two towns, 1906.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Lodges Collection, 1801-1959, 1850(approx.)-1940(approx.) (bulk)
- AUTHORS: Lodges Collection
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- SUBJECT:
Fraternal societies
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 50 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: By-laws and constitutions, certificates, pamphlets, photographs, programs, miscellaneous papers and memorabilia concerning fraternal lodges in Tioga County, including the Elks, Masons and Odd Fellows. Records include a minute book, I.O.O.F. Owego Lodge No.204, 1846-1852; record books, Knights of Honor Owego Lodge No.54, 1875-1909; and annual reports, Friendship Lodge No.153, Owego, 1891-1917. Also a Master Mason's certificate issued to Nelson Hyde, 1864.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827.
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- TITLE: Church Collection, 1781-1977, 1781-1900(approx.)
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- SUBJECT:
Baptists -- Tioga Baptist Church
Congregationalists -- West Newark Congregational Church
Epicopalians -- Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Smithboro, New York
Presbyterians -- Spencer Presbyterian Church
Tioga County, New York -- Religious activity
Women Organizations
Missionaries
Baptists -- Baptist Church of New Bedford
Congregationalists -- Candor Congregational Church
Congregationalists -- Congregational Church of Owego
Universalists -- First Universalist Society of Caroline
Congregationalists -- Owego Congregational Society
Presbyterians -- First Presbyterian Society, Owego, New York
Presbyterians -- Presbyterian Church, Owego, New York
Presbyterians -- Presbyterian Society, Caroline, New York
Methodists -- Spencer Methodist-Episcopal Church
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 350 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Clippings, broadsides, photographs, pamphlets, postcards and miscellaneous papers concerning churches in Tioga County. Records of the Baptist Church of New Bedford, 1796-1893; Candor Congregational Church, 1808-1902; Congregational Church of Owego, 1827-1908; First Universalist Society of Caroline, 1827-1867; Home Department, First Presbyterian Union Church, Owego, 1917-1925; Owego Congregational Society, later the First Presbyterian Society, 1849-1936; Owego Sacred Music Society, 1842-1843; Presbyterian Church, Owego, 1817-1912; Presbyterian Society, Caroline, 1822-1855, Society of Western, Berkshire, 1805-1816; Spencer Methodist-Episcopal Church, 1842-1887; Tioga Circuit Religious Society, later the Tioga Baptist Church, 1812-1815; West Newark Congregational Church, 1823-1939; and the Women's Missionary Society, First Presbyterian Union Church, Owego, 1906-1944.
- ABSTRACT: Also a list of subscribers and amounts pledged to raise a meeting house on the land of Ladowick Light, 1812; the letter of consecration of St. John's Church, Richford, 1833; a list of donors and vestrymen, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Smithboro, 1874; and a pamphlet listing members, baptisms, marriages and deaths, Spencer Presbyterian Church, 1815-1915.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Religion Collection, 1775(ca.)-1875(ca.)
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- SUBJECT:
Tioga County, New York Religious activity
Tioga County, New York Vital statistics
Tioga County, New York Genealogical records
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 100 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Printed materials including hymnal and religious tracts; and family Bibles, many of which contain birth, death, and marriage records for Tioga County families during the 18th and 19th centuries. Family names represented include Bidlack, Coburn, Gibson, Goodrich, Holland, Ingerham, Johnson, Murray, Pitcher, Saxton, Shedden, Smyth, Van Nostran, Wade, Walker, and Wheeler.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Military Collection - Commissions, 1775-1910, 1810-1867 (bulk)
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- SUBJECT:
Tioga County, New York -- Military history
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 21 items
- ABSTRACT: Military commissions issued to Samuel Archibald, 1834-1837; Thomas Baird, 1811-1831; Stephen Ball, 1810; General Isaac S. Catlin, 1866-1910; Nathaniel W. Davis, 1861; John Forman, 1843; Adam Gouto, 1810; Henry Light, 1823; William R. Light, 1838; David Pixley, 1775; David Ransom, 1823-1826; and William Ransom, 1802.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Military Collection - Revolutionary War, 1778-1960, 1778-1783 (bulk)
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- SUBJECT:
Diaries
Logbooks
Revolutionary War
Tioga County, New York Military history
Broome County, New York Military history
Veterans
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 15 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Collection includes several manuscripts prepared for publication by Almon W. Lauber, 1932, including Orderly Books of 4th New York Regiment, 1778-1780; Orderly books of 2nd New York Regiment, 1780-1783; diary of Samuel Tallmadge, 1780-1782; and diary of John Barr, 1779-1782; a British Army manual of maneuvers, 1779; list of Broome County Revolutionary War veterans, compiled in 1960; and a map of Colonel William Butler's march from Schoharie to Unadilla, October, 1778.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Local History Collection, 1692-1978
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Tioga County, New York -- Local history
Floods
Owego, New York
Nichols, New York -- Maps
Owego, New York -- Historic preservation
Crimes and criminals
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 500 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Addresses, articles, clippings, essays, pamphlets and miscellaneous papers concerning the history of Tioga County and its towns; photographs of accidents, crimes, fires and floods in Tioga County, c.1900- c.1945; crime file of the Owego Gazette, containing clippings on crimes in Tioga County, 1870-1953; four volume record of Owego and its people, kept by the Goodrich-Ellis Family, 1853-1911; diaries of Urania Farrand, 1781-1846, and William F. Chitry, 1865; historical map of Nichols, c. 1967; scrapbooks of clippings on Owego and Tioga County history, 1692-c.1955; and scrapbooks of records of the town of Owego, including assessment rolls, deeds, and jury lists.
- ABSTRACT: Collection also includes Leroy Wilson Kingman's personal copy of his book, Early Owego, 1907, with clippings, documents and photographs pasted in; his copy of W.B. Gay's Historical Gazetteer of Tioga County, 1888, with letters and photographs pasted in; and his scrapbooks concerning local elections, 1874-1936. Also the Owego Front Street Survey, conducted by the Preservation Planning Workshop, Cornell University, with illustrations, maps, and historical data on the West Front Street area, 1977-1978.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Public Records Collection, 1666-1916, 1780(approx.)-1880 (bulk)
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Berks, County of, England
Schuyler County, New York
Dryden, New York
Watkins-Flint Purchase
Land records, deeds and surveys
American Indians
Tioga County, New York -- Vital statistics
Divorce
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 85 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Affadavits, bonds, certificates of sale, deeds, indentures, marriage certificates, wills and other public documents, chiefly concerning Tioga County land and residents. Included are an indenture covering pre-nuptial property arrangements of John Williams the Younger and Martha Greenaway, County of Berks, England, 1666; a deed for property on the Delaware River, signed with X marks by 12 Indian chiefs, 1755; a deed transferring 400 acres in Tioga County to John Hollenbeck, signed by George Clinton, 1793; and the divorce announcement of George and Louisa J. Williams of Berkshire, 1873. Also a vellum deed conveying over 200,000 acres of land west of Owego Creek to Schuyler County and north of the Susquehanna River to Dryden by John and Judith Watkins to a company of men - known as the Watkins-Flint Purchase, 1794.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Genealogy Collection, 1600(ca.)-1976
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Tioga County, New York -- Vital statistics
Tioga County, New York -- Genealogical records
Evergreen Cemetery, Berkshire, New York
East Newark Cemetery
Ketchumville Cemetery
Congregationalists -- Congregational Church, Candor, New York
Presbyterians -- Presbyterian Church, Owego, New York
Baptists -- First Baptist Church, Owego, New York
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 18 cubic ft., 400 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Tioga County Surname Files containing index cards of genealogical information about Tioga County residents, filed alphabetically by surname and drawn from cemetery, census, church records and published works. Also published and unpublished genealogies of c.300 Tioga County families. Original documents include church records of the Congregational Church, Candor, 1808-1902; baptismal records of the Presbyterian Church, Owego, 1817-1912; burial records of the First Baptist Church, Owego, 1850-1853; cemetery records of Evergreen Cemetery, Berkshire and East Newark Cemetery; list of gravestones in Ketchumville Cemetery; and funeral records of Leonard B. Ross, undertaker in Nichols, 1872-1899.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Letters Collection, 1799-1952, 1799-1919(approx.) (bulk)
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Rensselaerville, New York
Tioga County, New York -- Local history
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 65 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Personal correspondence of Tioga County residents, including letters from Job Head to his daughter, Mrs. Phebe Dean, 1818-1828; a letter from Samuel Curtis to his brother George Curtis of Owego, 1820; letters from Nathaniel Parker Willis to George J. Pumpelly, c.1826; letters to Jonathan Jenkins of Rensselaerville from friends and family members in Tioga County, 1826-1846; assorted valentines, 1843-c.1900; a letter from Horace Greeley to G.H. Barstow, 1848; letter from Samuel L. Clemens to Henry E. Barrett, Owego, 1894; letter from Theodore Roosevelt to naturalist J. Alden Loring, written from Khartoum, 1910.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Biography Collection, 1800(ca.)-1978, 1850(approx.)-1920(approx.) (bulk)
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Tioga County, New York -- Local history
Tioga County, New York -- Genealogical records
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 850 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Articles, audio tapes, autograph books, clippings, photographs, portraits, postcards, and miscellaneous papers concerning c.500 local and non-local persons. Tioga County residents include Judge Charles Avery, Charles F. Barager, Andrew Burgess, General Isaac S. Catlin, Judge Charles Austin Clark, Stephen Banks Leonard, Captain Francis Levis, J. Alden Loring, Pumpelly Family, David Roche, John D. Rockefeller IV, Lyman Truman, Wade Family, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Jacob Willsey. There are also several prints of Mathew Brady photographs of Abraham Lincoln, c.1863.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Military Collection - Thomas S. Arnold Papers, 1861-1938, 1861-1863 (bulk)
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- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 70 items (ca.)
- ABSTRACT: Miscellaneous papers concerning Captain Thomas S. Arnold of Owego, who was mortally wounded at Salem Church, Va. during the Battle of Chancellorville, 1863. Collection includes military commissions of Arnold, 1862; letters written to his wife, Celestia D. Arnold, 1862-1863; Arnold's handwritten will, 1862; letters from Arnold's father, Nathan Arnold, to his wife, written from Potomac Creek Hospital where Arnold was a patient, 1863; pass to Potomac Creek Hospital issued by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, to Celestia Arnold, 1863; clippings on Arnold's death, 1863; pension claim of Celestia Arnold, 1873; photographs and a pen and ink sketch of Arnold, 1861-1938; letters from the U.S. War Department regarding Arnold's military service, 1931-1938; and a pen and ink map of the battle at Salem Church, 1863.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Military Collection - Civil War Diaries, 1862-1865
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- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 7 items
- ABSTRACT: Diaries of Union soldiers of Tioga County including Frank Brink, Henry G. Hall, Asa S. Howard, Spencer H. Jasen, William Ketchum, and Aaron W. Willson.
- LOCATION: Tioga County Historical Society, 110-112 Front Street, Owego, New York 13827
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- TITLE: Owego reflections, 1887-1987 / by Hilda R. Watrous
- AUTHORS: Watrous, Hilda R., 1930-
Tioga County Historical Society (Tioga County, N.Y.)
- PUBLISHED: Owego, NY : Tioga County Historical Society, c1994.
- SUBJECT:
Owego (N.Y.) -- History
Tioga County (N.Y.) -- History
New York (State) -- History, Local
- PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 572 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- NOTES: Includes indexes.
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