Owego, a town and village, capital of Tioga co., New York, on the Susquehanna river, here crossed by a bridge 240 ft. long, at the mouth of Owego creek, on the Erie and Southern Central railroads, and at the terminus of the Ithaca branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western railroad, 140 m. S. W. of Albany; pop. of the town in 1870, 9,442; of the village, 4,756. It is surrounded by a fine farming country, with which it has an important trade. The village is pleasantly situated on a level at the base of a high hill, and is handsomely built. The principal streets are bordered by wide sidewalks, and shaded with rows of maples. It contains two grist mills, two founderies, two shoe factories, two soap factories, a piano manufactory, four tanneries, four planing mills, two carriage factories, two marble factories, the Erie railway bridge shops, three banks, six hotels, an academy, six schools, three weekly newspapers, and seven churches. Steamers convey excursion parties to points on the river. Glenmary, on Owego creek near the village, was formerly the residence of N. P. Willis.