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DeRuyter
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DeRuyter is named for a famous Dutch Admiral.
DeRuyter was also the birth place of Ezra Cornell founder of Cornell
University. He walked from DeRuyter to Ithaca N.Y. (about 40 miles) and
started teaching at what has developed into Cornell University
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