Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Wetherwax, A. L. 1831 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Wetherwax, A.L., Little Falls, proprietor of the Rockton House, Little Falls, 
has been one of the greatest cheese dealers and manufacturers of this State or 
country.  He has made 4,500,000 pounds of cheese, and of this he made 
3,500,000 in the Newville factory, which he conducted for eleven years.  He 
took a prize for his cheese at the Centennial exposition in 1876.  In 1869 he 
made four large cheeses for a Christmas dinner in London, England, weighing 
980 pounds, and in 1870 made four more for the same party, weighing 1,380 
pounds, and for all these got 24 cents per pound, when the best cheese was 
selling for 17 cents.  He first made cheese in Oneida in 1864, and a year 
later came to Manheim.  In 1868 he came to Newville.  In his commission 
business he was very successful, and in one day (September 10, 1887) bought 
$12,700 worth of cheese for J.S. Martin & Co., of No. 168 Chambers street, New 
York.  Mr. Wetherwax is a native of this State, and his ancestors came from 
Germany about two centuries ago.  He was born in 1831.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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