HERKIMER, a village of New York, on the Mohawk river, 15 m. S.E. of Utica; the county seat of Herkimer county. It is served by the New York Central railroad. The population was 1o,45o in 192o (22.8% foreign-born white) and was 10,446 in 193o by the Federal census. It is the trade centre of a rich dairying region, and has important manufactures, especially of office furni ture and equipment, with an output in 1925 valued at $ 5, 7 26, 713. The village was named after Gen. Nicholas Herkimer, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Oriskany (Aug. 6, 1777). It was founded about 17 2 5 by Palatine Germans, who bought a large tract from the Mohawk Indians and established several settlements, known as the German Flats. In 1756 a stone house built in 174o by John Jost Herkimer (father of the general and one of the original colonists), a stone church and other buildings, were forti fied by Sir William Johnson.