. The story of Cooperstown . ghter of Wil-liarh C. Grain, a prominent citizen of the adjoin-ing county of Herkimer. She was a woman oflarge intellectual gifts and undaunted spirit, andpersonally undertook the education of their eld-est son, John Myer Bowers, who sat on the floorbefore her, while the mother, book in hand, in-stilled into his mind the importance of the threeRs, with much stress upon the principles of fidel-ity and loyalty as elements of success in the age of sixteen years she sent him to NewYork to study law under one of the leading attor-neys of that city. He became
. The story of Cooperstown . ghter of Wil-liarh C. Grain, a prominent citizen of the adjoin-ing county of Herkimer. She was a woman oflarge intellectual gifts and undaunted spirit, andpersonally undertook the education of their eld-est son, John Myer Bowers, who sat on the floorbefore her, while the mother, book in hand, in-stilled into his mind the importance of the threeRs, with much stress upon the principles of fidel-ity and loyalty as elements of success in the age of sixteen years she sent him to NewYork to study law under one of the leading attor-neys of that city. He became one of the foremostlawyers of the State, and a few years after itssale repurchased Lakelands, with its forty acres HOMES AND GOSSIP OF OTHER DAYS 137 along lake and river, as his summer home. Nonative son of Cooperstown has had a more suc-cessful career than John M. Bowers. In 1915he won a verdict for Theodore Roosevelt in thecelebrated trial at Syracuse in which suit for libelwas brought against the former President of the. C. A. Schneider Lakelands United States by William Barnes, the proprietorof the Albany Evening Journal. A mansard roof was added to Lakelands atthe period during which the property was out ofthe possession of the Bowers family, but the re-mainder of the house is of the original building,and the carved wooden doors and mantel-pieceswithin testify to the skill of old-time workman- 138 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN ship in Cooperstown. The wide stretches of lawnshaded by venerable trees, and the long sweepof lake shore commanded by Lakelands make ita charming country seat. In 1801 George Pomeroy, a young man oftwenty-two years, arrived from Albany, and setup in business as the first druggist in the villageand county. His store stood on Main Street onthe site of the present Clark Gymnasium. Someof the hardships of the early settlers to whichhistory may only allude are suggested by a signwhich hung in front of the drug store of , as he was called. This sig
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