1826 - 1897

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• Christened	3 Sep 1826	First Presbyterian Church,Cherry Valley,Otsego,New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1897	Emporium,Cameron,New York   [3]
  Person ID	I90402	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Family	Mary Adaline SCRANTON, b. 19 Sep 1824, Edmeston Ny
  Married	2 Jun 1852
  Children	1. Ella M. GOULD, b. Abt 1853, Homer,Cortland,New York   2. Augustus D. GOULD, b. 1856   3. Jennie GOULD, b. Abt Sep 1859, New York   4. May GOULD, b. Abt 1863, New York
  Family ID	F39427	Group Sheet

• Notes

  The PRESS- the story of the the establishment of this excellent Journal was told by the owner, C.B. Gould, in 1888: " in 1866, an association of gentleman,residents of the county, purchased the printing material of the defunct CITIZEN, with a view of establishing a Republican paper and sent to us, then in Binghamton, NY, to come in and published it. We arrived here at the last day of February, 1866, and a more desolate looking place, or one more uninviting to embark in the enterprise of establishing a newspaper, could rarely be found. Theonly view that met our eye, on stepping from the cars was the towering mountains, woods, and stumps, but the few scattering houses including the Biddie House, then kept by J. L. Cook. Our first impulse was to take the return train, then due, for New York State, and not show ourself to the committee that we felt had imposed upon us, but just then Frank McCollum, who had preceded us here,and was engaged to work in the printing office, put in his appearance and informed us that James G. Clark (an old acquaintance from Utica) was to give a concert in the court house that evening, and desired to see us. After supper atthe Biddie House, we were piloted to the courthouse meandering between stumps(sidewalks were a luxury unknown), and through mud we imagine to be about 3 ft. deep, and at last arrived at the temple of Justice, a thoroughly disgusted individual. To our surprise we found a large audience of intelligent, fashionably dressed men and women, and a better class of people we never met. But wheredid they come from? Was a query we could not answer. There were but a few dilapidated dwellings to be seen, but woods and stumps, and stumps and woods everywhere. Did these people live in hollow trees or behind stumps? Where else could they live? We did not then know that the woods were full of the best kindof people, engaged in lumbering, living in their own the lumber camps, a wealthy, prosperous class, and many of them educated and refined. After the concert, were taken through the audience in introduced to the people, during much asa new minister would be exhibited to his flock. We then made the acquaintanceof many who had been our most valued friends these years. Some of them still reside here, a few have made the residence and other places, in many of ceasedfrom labors and gone to their eternal rest. The next morning after our arrivalin Emporium, we went to the printing office, then in the old Gibson House, atthe lower end of the borough, and found the sorry looking concern. It was a hand press, some newspaper type, and very little material for job work. The forms of the citizen had been left without washing, and having been in that condition for nearly a year, printers can readily understand the labor required toclean the type and get ready for use. The office was in terrible condition, and almost a complete mass of " pi ". However, we want to work, and in about 10days but the office in good shape, and issued the first number of the press.The paper was of a 6 column folio just half the present size, set in long primer, but a creditable looking sheet, in the Enterprise proved a financial success from the start. Was then the only paper published on the line of the P & ERailroad, between Lock Haven and Warren, and our business increased so rapidlythat we were compelled, in a few weeks, to put it in the establishment a Gordon job press and add-largely to do our jobbing facilities. The business steadily increase, and the press had been enlarged to and 8 column paper, the establishment was complete in every department, when, in November 18th 77, it was completely destroyed by fire without a dollar of insurance; the hard earnings of 11 years went up in flames and smoke, and we were compelled to start at thebottom round again; and now, after 11 years more of toil, and many discouragements, we have a better office, one of the most c

• Sources

  [S1335] GEDCOM File : scranton-shaw.ged, Kathleen Shaw Decker (Kdecker973@aol.com), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=scranton-shaw&id=I46), 4 Feb 2004. [S1571] LDS Family Search, Data from IGI online. [S1591] Newton Protestant Cemetery, Emporium, PA.