Word: schuyler
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Tested in this way, by Drs. W. F. Libby and J. R. Arnold of the University of Chicago, one sample of charcoal from a buried campsite in Schuyler County proved to be about 5,400 years old. Most previous estimates had given the Indians only 2,000 years in New York State, but Dr. Ritchie's finding seemed to indicate that rather primitive redmen lived there in 3450 B.C., when the neolithic inhabitants, of northern Europe were not much more advanced...
...records of events of every sort. He has also obtained some older treasures. Dr. Haven Emerson was able to produce 30 letters from Ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chemist William Jay Schieffelin reached into a closet and pulled out the seven letters that John Jay wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler after the fall of Fort Ticonderoga...
Died. Representative Schuyler Otis Bland, 77, Virginia's white-haired perennial, one of the hardiest in the House (17 consecutive terms since 1918),*chairman of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, longtime proponent of shipping subsidies; in Bethesda...