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Elihu Phinney (1755-1813) came to Cooperstown in 1795, where he founded the Otsego Herald and also a flourishing printing business that published numerous books and pamphlets, as well as the annual Phinney's Almanac. He was succeeded, by his sons Henry (1782-1850) and Elihu, Jr. (1785-1863), who continued to run the business in Cooperstown until 1850, when it moved to Buffalo, New York.
The Phinney publishing business (there is a Graduate Thesis about it in the Research Library of the New York State Historical Association) was a major publisher in Central New York for decades, and many journalists and publishers (including Thurlow Weed (1797-1852) and dime novel publisher Erastus Beadle (1821-1894)) got their apprenticeship there.
Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown Village Historian
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