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About the Author...
Tom DeForest was born in Norwich and raised in New Berlin, Chenango County, NY. He graduated from the New Berlin Central School and the University of Buffalo with a degree in Mathematics. A veteran of the U. S. Army, he worked for IBM in Endicott NY for over 40 years. After he retired, he started to research and write about various local railroad topics. This is his first book.
What You’ll Find in the Book...
CONTENT: News articles simply about someone coming to town for a meeting, or that say simply that work is progressing with no other significant details, are usually not included.
NEWSPAPER REFERENCE: Every article is identified by the date it was published and the newspaper where it was found. Multiple articles from the same issue are designated by a suffix of -A, -B, etc after the date. A code of CS indicates that the data came from a court proceeding found on the internet.
FILTERING, ERRORS: As a general rule, I have not fixed errors of fact from what was said in the original article. Some articles appear to be downright wrong, but are included anyway. 1898-10-26 DG is an example. It talks about the UV being leased to the O&W, but this never happened and was later refuted in another article. If the same article appeared in multiple papers, I have usually included all of them.
SOURCES: The vast majority of these articles were obtained from newspapers found online. The small remainder were obtained from paper copies. I have included all issues of all newspapers I could find, but some local papers are not included. Most notably, even though the Unadilla Valley Railroad was based in New Berlin, few articles from the New Berlin Gazette are included because it is not found online.
TYPOS: There are likely to be transcription errors. I’ve double and triple checked names, dates and places, but I still probably missed some. The transcription program had some trouble with similar looking letters (h/b, e/o/c, i/I/1, rm/nn, comma/period and the like). I have tried to catch these but I’ve likely missed some. If you find such an error, please bring it to my attention so I can correct it in a future edition.
INDEX: All of the index data was generated by hand and entered directly. Not every single reference to every single name in every single article is included in the index. If the name or topic seemed relevant to an event hat happened with the UV Railroad, then it is probably included. There are some general topics which point to many others, including Accident, Lawsuits and Weather.
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