After World War I, Amsterdam veterans’ organizations formed drum and bugle corps. Most drum corps members were war veterans who had learned to march in the Army. The premier groups were those of the James T. Bergen and John J. Wyszomirski Ame…
A textile mill on Willett Street in Fort Plain produced women’s underwear, mainly panties, and was a major employer for most of the twentieth century.
David W. Chalmers and his partners were the last industrialists to start a major knitting mill in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam tuba player Herbert S. Breen was married twice. His first wife, Maude Mosher, died in 1927, the year the Mohawk Mills Band was formed. Two years later he married Carrie Wilbur.
On one of Samuel Stratton’s early trips to Amsterdam as part of his first Congressional campaign there, he luckily ran into an 11-year old entrepreneur.
People called her Queen Libby.
