1974: A group of mothers and their young children, presumably born at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital around 1927, stands in front of the hospital that year. Fifty years ago, the first baby born at the hospital in 1974 was to be one of the last born there, as the hospital expected to close its maternity ward by the end of January that year.
John Christensen The Chronicle-Express: Consolidation, January 1, 1926, of the Yates County Chronicle (1824) and the Penn Yan Express (1866); the Rushville Chronicle (1905) and…
