Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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THE DE-O-WAIN-STA 13 DE-0-WAIN-STA STAFF BERTIS L. MARTIN., ..,.., ..., , ,, ,.,, ,,,,...A, , . . .,,,...A,......,,, ..., o,,,.,...Editor-in-Chief JAMES COLLINS .... .....,..,.,,,,, , ,, ...,, , . ,,,, ,,,,, . ...,., , ,. ,,,,,,, ,,,,,,, , , ,, ,,,,, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS Curtis Bates Eunice Watters Howard Williams ,Mary Huntington Viola Fitch Winifred Saeger Literary Department Joke Department Marion Staley Bert Odell Art Department Francis Shue Mary Horin Elizabeth Trachsel Carlton Moore Sports Editor Andrew Knauer Assistant Business Managers Robert Obrist James Schneible Junior Representative Conse De Lutis

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12 THE DE-O-WAIN-STA General William Floyd F ' William Floyd was born at Mastic, Long Island, December 7, 1734. Floyd played an important part in the Revolu- tiong first as commander of a Suffolk regiment and later as a member of the Provincial Assembly, from which in 1774 he was sent as a delegate to the First Continental Congress. As one of New York's delegates to the Second Continental Congress, Floyd signed the Declaration of Independence, the act which has made him so well known. 1 Throughout the Revolution he served in the State Legislature and the Conti-- nental Congresses. During the war his GENERAL WILL!-UI FLOYD large estate on Long Island was con- fiscated and despoiled by the British. His family fled to Middletown, Con- necticut, for safety. As a Presidential Elector in 1792, 1800 and 1804 he exercised his influence for Jefferson, whom he greatly admired. In 1784 Floyd purchased a tract of land in Oneida County and in 1803 he moved on to his purchase where he built a village known as West- ernville around his home. This village is about eight miles north of Rome. On August 4, 1821, Floyd died. He is buried in the cemetery of the Pres- byterian Church at Westernville. About five miles east of Floyd's last resting place is the grave of an- other illustrious Revolutionary hero, Baron Steuben, Hthe Drillmaster of the Revolution. Steuben, too, had a tract of land in Oneida County and he is buried on a portion of it. In addition to the heritage of the many events of note that have occurred in Oneida County this section has the distinction of containing the graves of these two renowned men, Floyd and Steuben. This generation can pay no better tribute to the pioneers of the Mohawk Valley, than to rescue from oblivion the true import of the deeds they did. -Page 2 Memorial of the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Oriskany, August 6, 1877.

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GEORGE R. STALEY Superintendent of Schools