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16 unusual facts about Utica


Allissa Richardson

Richardson began her journalism career in 2002 as a general assignment intern for the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York, after winning a Freedom Forum scholarship.

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

During the 1890s cycle races like the Cicero Plank Road Race in Cicero, New York and the Century run of the Century Road Club to Utica and back were very popular forms of entertainment and drew thousands of spectators.

Derek Newton

A native of Utica, Mississippi, Newton attended Hinds County Agricultural High School, where he was an All-Metro and All-District lineman as a senior, after playing only two years of high school football.

Edward W. Townsend

He died in New York City on March 15, 1942, and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York.

Henry DiSpirito

He settled in Utica, New York, where he worked as a stone cutter and took lessons at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute.

Jay White

Now 1989, after an audition and a seven-week run in Reno, Nevada, Jay moved with his wife and three children from Utica, Michigan to Las Vegas to perform with Legends in the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino.

Lincoln Holroyd

Prof. Holroyd has been one of Utica's most active musicians for a number of years past.He is the conductor

In May 1921, he joined the Shriner's Ziyara Temple, based in Utica, and "the organization of the band immediately begun" (Ziyara Bugle, February 1961).

Massa Candida

The Massa Candida were 300 early Christian martyrs from Utica who chose death rather than offering incense to Roman Gods, in approximately 253-60 AD.

Mohawk Valley Prowlers

The Mohawk Valley Prowlers were a United Hockey League team which played from 1998 until January 2001 in Utica, New York.

Ohio River Bridges Project

The other, commonly referred to as the "East End bridge," will connect the Indiana and Kentucky segments of I-265 (via KY-841) between Louisville's East end and Utica, Indiana.

Robert J. Sampson

Robert J. Sampson (born July 9, 1956 in Utica) is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Seneca, South Carolina

This village has been called Jordania, Londsdale, and Utica as the ownership of the plant changed.

Útica

The village is said to have been founded by Manuel Murillo Toro circa 1802 who stopped whilst travelling, liked the area and built a house.

Utica grew from a small fishing community, with the Rio Negro and the Quebradanegra running through it.

Utica, Montana

One of Utica's most famous local residents was the western painter C.M. Russell, who at the time was a young cowhand hired by a local rancher and gold miner named Jake Hoover.


Alzheimer's Association, Central New York Chapter

Regional offices are located in the Nichols Notch Building at 401 Hayes Avenue in Endicott; 258 Genesee Street in Utica; and the HSBC Bank Building at 120 Washington Street, Suite 419, in Watertown.

Anthony Brindisi

On September 13, 2011 Brindisi, an attorney who served on the Utica School Board was elected during a special election to the New York State Assembly, succeeding long time Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito after her popularity waned for influence peddling and conflicts-of-interest.

Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr.

For lieutenant governor, Celebrezze chose Eugene Branstool, an Ohio state senator who was a mid-state farmer from Utica, Ohio.

Armory Show

In 1944 the Cincinnati Art Museum mounted a smaller version, in 1958 Amherst College held an exhibition of 62 works, 41 of which were in the original show, and in 1963 the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York organized the "1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition" sponsored by the Henry Street Settlement in New York, which included more than 300 works.

Bonaventure Giffard

Henry Howard, brother to the Duke of Norfolk, was accordingly created bishop of Utica, in partibus, and nominated to the coadjutorship, cum jure successionis, on 2 October 1720, but he died before the end of the year, and in March 1720–1 the propaganda appointed Benjamin Petre coadjutor in his stead.

Carpenter, Mississippi

A former railroad town located seven miles from Utica in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, Carpenter was named for Joseph Neibert Carpenter, president of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbia Railroad.

Catone in Utica

Catone in Utica was the first opera that Metastasio wrote for the Roman public, and it was received with mixed feelings.

Charles Farrar Browne

Before presenting "The Emancipation Proclamation" to his Cabinet, Lincoln read to them the latest episode, "Outrage in Utiky", also known as High-Handed Outrage at Utica.

Clark Burnham

Clark Burnham (May 22, 1802 Windham, Windham County, Connecticut – December 30, 1871 Utica, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Craig Wuest

According to former Earthstar guitarist Dennis Rea in the early 1970s Wuest was among the first musicians in Utica who owned a synthesizer.

Eugene Paul Nassar

Eugene Paul Nassar (born 20 June 1935), Professor of English Emeritus of Utica College, Utica, New York, is the author of several books of literary criticism in the close analysis tradition of his teachers, John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, Christopher Ricks at Oxford University, Arthur Mizener of Cornell University, and his critical model and mentor, Cleanth Brooks.

F. F. Bosworth

His father was a Civil War veteran (part of an Illinois company), who would have moved to Utica Nebraska some time after the Civil War was over, but before F. F. Bosworth was born.

Falls City Brewing Company

Those breweries were Cold Spring Brewing Company of Cold Spring, Minnesota; Pearl Brewing Company of San Antonio, Texas; and West End Brewing Company in Utica, New York.

Frank DuRoss

(WOWZ FM-97.9) in Utica and the rights to a television station in Des Moines, Iowa and Greenville, South Carolina.

Fred Sisson

He was sheriff's attorney in 1913 and corporation counsel for the city of Utica in 1914; in 1922 he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 68th United States Congress and in 1928 to the 71st United States Congress.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the 75th Congress and continued the practice of law in Utica and Washington, D.C. until his retirement in 1945.

Frederick Staples Benedict

Among the important works of his firm which he directed were the New York Athletic Club, United States Post Office at Orange, New Jersey, First Bank and Trust Company at Utica, New York, Brooklyn Trust Company, Rutgers College gymnasium, work at Vassar College and the University of Michigan.

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Crossing to Williamsburg, the line was to have stops at Havemeyer Street, South Fourth Street (connections to the IND Crosstown Line and a major junction to the IND Houston Street Line, the IND Utica Ave Line and a connection to the Rockaways).

James S. Pula

James S. Pula (born 18 February 1946, Utica, New York) is an award-winning Polish-American historian, professor, author, and Polonia activist.

John Devereux

John C. Devereux (1774–1848), mayor of Utica, New York and noted Roman Catholic

John Timothy Stone

He was pastor of churches at Utica and Cortlandt, New York, until 1900; then of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, until 1909; and in that year became pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago.

Leo Frankowski

He owned and operated Sterling Manufacturing and Design, located in Utica, Michigan, which (among other things) designed pneumatic and hydraulic systems for Chrysler.

Merwin K. Hart

Born in Utica, New York, Hart attended Harvard in 1900, graduating in 1904 in the same class as Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Pond's

Pond's Cream was invented in the United States as a patent medicine by pharmacist Theron T. Pond (1800–1852) of Utica, New York, in 1846.

Raymond Han

The Honolulu Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, New York) and the Picker Art Gallery (Colgate College, Hamilton, New York) are among the public collections holding work by Raymond Han.

Samuel Livingston Breese

He was born in Utica, New York, the son of Arthur Breese and Catherine Livingston, and brother to Senator Sidney Breese of Illinois.

The Breakfast

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

The Post-Standard

The newspaper partly caters to this audience as well, covering many stories from the Ithaca, Utica, and Watertown areas.

Tim Roye

Following his graduation from Utica College in New York, Roye spent eight years (1978–86) as the sports director at Utica's WIBXWNYZ radio.

Utica Psychiatric Center

The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, which opened in Utica in 1843, was New York's first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill and was one of the first such institutions in the United States, predating and perhaps influencing the Kirkbride Plan which called for similar institutions nation-wide.

Utica Zoo

The City of Utica, despite owning the land, does not financially support the zoo: it is primarily funded by the Oneida County government, the New York State Natural Heritage Program, and fundraising by the Zoo and private donors.

As part of conservation programs, the Utica Zoo has housed Mexican Wolves, Red Pandas, White-naped Cranes, White-handed Gibbons, Mexican Spider Monkeys, Golden Lion Tamarins, Golden-headed Lion Tamarins, California Sea Lions, Prehensile-tailed Skinks, Collard Peccaries and Snowy Owls.

WRCK

WUTQ-FM, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Utica, New York, United States, known as WRCK from December 2010 through March 2012

WUPN

WPNY-LP in Utica, New York, a TV station formerly affiliated with UPN, used "WUPN-LP" as its calls from 1995 to 1996