This celebrated American novelist was born in Burlington, N.J. His father removed to the state of New York about 1790, and founded cooperstown, on Otsego Lake.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
Miss Calista had shopping to do and friends to visit in town, so that the dull autumn day was well nigh spent when she finally got back to cooperstown and paused at the corner store to get a bundle of matches.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The good people of cooperstown held up their hands in horror when they heard that Miss Calista had hired Ches Maybin, and prophesied that the deluded woman would live to repent her rash step.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901"
Lucy Maud Montgomery