Editing Berne, New York (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[John Warren Butterfield]] (November 18, 1801 – November 14, 1869), born in Berne, went on to found the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]], the stage that was an early operation of [[American Express]] and [[Wells Fargo]].
* Justice [[Joseph Philo Bradley]] (March 14, 1813 – January 22, 1892), born on a farm on the top of Cole Hill, served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1870 to 1892. Bradley is best remembered as being the 15th and final member of the [[Electoral Commission (United States)|Electoral Commission]] that decided the disputed [[1876 presidential election]] between Republican [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] and Democrat [[Samuel J. Tilden]].
* Capt. [[Adam Bogardus]] (September 17, 1834 – March 23, 1913), born on a farm on Ravine Road on West Mountain, became the World Champion and United States Champion [[Skeet shooting|trap shootist]]. He is credited with popularizing [[trap shooting]]. He invented the first practical glass ball trap in 1877. He and his sons were renowned crack shots who toured with the [[Buffalo Bill]]'s Wild West Show. He is in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20071212205225/http://www.traphof.org/inductees/bogardus1.htm National Trapshooting Hall of Fame].
* [[Albert Gallup]] (January 30, 1796 – November 5, 1851), born in Berne, was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1837 to 1839.
* [[M. E. Grenander]] (November 21, 1918 – May 28, 1998), born in Rewey, Wisconsin, was a professor of English and philanthropist, for whom the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives of the University Libraries of the University at Albany, the State University of New York is named. She and her second husband, James Corbett (a professor of physics at SUNY), prospered through the stock market. She donated $1 million to SUNY in his memory after his death in 1994. Grenander died in East Berne, New York, at 79 years of age.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
* [[Adelmorn Sherman]] (January 30, 1820 – January 26, 1875) born in Berne, farmer, served in the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] (1869–71).<ref>'The Legislative Manual of the Wisconsin Legislature 1871,' Biographical Sketch of Adelmorn Sherman, pg. 383</ref>
* [[Hiram Walden]] (August 21, 1800 – July 21, 1880), born in Pawlet, Vermont, lived in Berne from 1818 to 1821, and manufactured axes. He then moved his ax factory to the Town of Wright to what became known as Waldensville. From 1849 to 1851, he was a United States Representative from New York 21st District.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}