Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York (Volume 1), Part 65

Author: Truman C. White
Publication date: 1898
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George W. Porter and George W. Harris. It has ever since maintained a useful existence.

The village was incorporated July 14, 1849, when the following of- ficers were elected: John W. McLean, Charles Kurtz, Ira Sleeper, John Barger and D. R. Osgood, trustees; Elijah M. Safford, assessor ; John M. Safford, collector; William H. Grimes, treasurer; Henry L. Bingham, clerk. For many years the only fire apparatus was a small hand engine owned by the glass works. On March 3, 1876, a hook and ladder company was organized and in February, 1882, the Cayuga Engine Company was formed The department now consists of two hose companies; a firemen's hall was built in 1896. In April, May and October, 1894, fires destroyed a number of buildings, nearly all of which were rebuilt. In this year a town hall was erected, of brick, which, with the site, cost about $30,000. On October 21, 1896, a fire on Cen- tral avenue burned the soap factory of Hoffeld & Co., the Cushing block, the stores of J. N. Maute, W. H. Kurtz and Charles Schliebs, the hotel of Henry Balthaser and other buildings, causing a loss of about $45,000; the burned district has been largely rebuilt.

The Lancaster Star was started on February 8, 1878, and changed to the Times in 1880; since October 20, 1885, it has been published by Marvin L. Reist. The Enterprise was established December 10, 1895, and became a semi-weekly on June 9, 1897; its editor is A. Leon Chand- ler. These newspapers are noticed at length in another chapter. Among the merchants in the village in past years are:

Jesse Field, Matthias Schwartz, John Leininger, J. R. Schwarm, Philip Martzloff, Mrs. Scheffler, Christopher E. Smith, Charles Seeter, Simon Adolph, Matthias M. Schwartz, A. S. Fisher, Dr. E. R. Post, A. B. Bishop, E. D. Keeney, Dr. J. E. Brown, T. D. Leininger, Mr. Le Munyon, E. L. Griswold, E. J. Smith, Dr. Leonard, Dr. Bibbens, Mr. Robinson, Frank S. Cushing, John N. Maute, William Delzer, Lewis Braun, Schaefer Brothers, Jonathan Heller, Charles Schliebs. Among the physicians are Drs. Harry H. Bissell, A. T. Bigelow, Samuel Potter, Frederick H. James, Jacob Van Peyma, Julius Wenz, George W. McPherson, John G. Miller, Henry Miller and E. W. Ewell. Of lawyers there have been Galusha and Johnson Parsons, Edwin Thayer, Charles F. Tabor, William H. Grimes, John L. Romer and George E. Phelps.

The Union planing mills, owned by Joseph Knauber, were estab- lished in 1858; for several years he also had a bedstead factory. John Schrankel built a grist mill in 1871 which finally burned; Philip Mook has conducted a grist mill here since 1874. There were at one time two breweries; one burned, and the other has been discontinued.

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Harlow Brothers and later Charles Clarke had a large carriage factory for several years. Charles E. Rood has a malleable iron works, W. J. & Frank Cant a machine and knife factory, and Englehart Oehm and George & Henry Safford each planing mills, while the Buffalo Star Brick Company have a large brick yard. The Bank of Lancaster was incorporated November 4, 1894, with Charles W. Fuller, president; John O. Garretsee, vice president; Abner P. Adams, cashier. The capital is $30,000. The Depew and Lancaster Water Works Company was organized in 1893 and established a water supply for both villages. In 1897 the village of Lancaster purchased the system constructed within its corporate limits, continuing to take the water, however, from the company. The Buffalo, Bellevue & Lancaster Electric Railroad, connecting the three places, was opened in 1893; the loop through Depew was constructed soon afterward. Lancaster village also is a station on the Erie, the D., L. & W., the Lehigh Valley, and the New York Central Railroads.

The churches of Lancaster village are as follows: The Presbyterian, organized February 7, 1818, with thirteen members, Rev. James Rem- ington first settled pastor in 1827, church built in 1832, remodeled and a brick chapel erected in 1852, Rev. William Waith pastor for many years after 1851; First German Evangelical Lutheran, organized and a church built in 1835, church afterward occupied by the Deutsch Evan- gelische Vereingte Kirche and a new church erected, which was con- verted into business uses about 1875, the present brick edifice having been built, Rev. C. L. Knapp pastor for nearly fifty years from 1847; Methodist Episcopal, built in 1837 by Arnold Green, new church erected in 1851; St. Mary's Roman Catholic, built in 1850-51, enlarged in 1889, Rev. F. M. Sester pastor for many years, parochial school opened December 1, 1874; German Methodist, purchased the old M. E. church in 1874; Trinity Episcopal, built in 1880-83; and the Baptist, organized June 25, 1896. The Lancaster Library was established No- vember 8, 1882. In 1873 a brick school house was erected, and in 1896 another, used as an annex, was built; the former is now the Union High School, and stands on land donated by Ebenezer Briggs.

The village of Lancaster now contains 3 dry goods stores, 12 gro- ceries, 2 drug stores, 7 meat markets, 7 furniture and undertaking establishments, 3 clothing stores, 3 hardware stores, 2 jewelry stores, a tea and coffee store, a merchant tailor, 2 news and stationery stores, a feed store, 2 hotels, a bank, 2 printing offices, 1 weekly and 1 semi-

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weekly newspaper, a harness shop, 4 blacksmiths, 2 cigar factories, 4 coal dealers, a flouring mill, a glass factory, a malleable iron works, a machine and knife factory, a large brick yard, 1 brewery, 3 planing mills, a machine shop, a malt house, 4 lumber dealers, a union high school, 7 religious societies and 6 churches, and a population of about 3,000.

Depew lies partly in Lancaster and partly in the town of Cheekto- waga, but its history is so thoroughly identified with the territory under consideration that it may properly be treated wholly within this chapter. It was named in honor of Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, to which it owes its existence. That great corporation decided upon this site as a permanent location for its shops and auxiliary establishments, and on May 17, 1892, ground was broken. This was the signal for a general real estate boom in the vicinity. The great shops, covering about six acres, were first opened on April 1, 1893, with forty employees. Before the close of the year 1893 the following establishments had been com- pleted or were well under way: The National Car Wheel Works, the Gould Coupler Company (occupying over six acres), and the Union Car Company (occupying about ten acres). The brass works were burned May 23, 1895, but immediately rebuilt. The first dwelling house was erected in April, 1893, and on May 1 of the same year John T. Lyman and George M. Beeman began the publication of the Depew Herald, which has had several proprietors, the present one being John T. Earl. In 1893 sixteen houses were erected, more than nine miles of plank sidewalk and 6,000 feet of sewers were laid, a fire company was organized, the New Palmer House by Alexander Stoddard and the Cleveland House by William Cleveland were built, and the water works were constructed by the Depew and Lancaster Water Works Company, of which Henry Koons was the first president.

On July 23, 1894, the village was incorporated, and the first officers elected August 21, were Dr. William Fairbanks, president; John Zur- brick, George Waltz and John Graney, trustees; Anthony Hartung, treasurer; Martin Kiefer, collector; J. N. Oswald, clerk. The corpo- rate limits are about two and one-fourth miles square, and the popula- tion is about 2,800. In this year (1894) a hose company was organized, the plants of the Buffalo Cleaning and Dyeing Company and the De- pew Brewing Company were established, the hardware store of Pratt & Matthews was opened, and the brick block of E. J. Durbin was

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erected. Union free school district No. 7, of Cheektowaga, taking in a part of the old district No. 4, Lancaster, was also organized, the first president being Franklin Zurbrick. At this time four schools were kept in the village. A brick school house was built on the south side in 1894-95 and another on the north side in 1895, each costing $10,000. The first principal was C. A. Walker. In 1894 the Depew Natural Gas Company was organized and began furnishing gas for lighting and fuel; three wells have been sunk on the north side. The Methodist Episcopal Society was organized July 6, 1894, with E. J. Durbin, B. C. Stoddard and A. W. Southall, trustees: an edifice was erected in 1895.

By February, 1895, the village had a population of 1,814, and by May about 500 dwellings had been erected and five large establish- ments were in operation employing 2,500 men. Transit street was macademized in this year, the German Lutheran church was built, and in December the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Emmaus Society was organized. A Roman Catholic church and an independent Polish Catholic church were erected in 1896. In 1893 a post-office was estab- lished with W. W. Turley as postmaster; he was followed by John Graney and he by Robert Hunter.

Depew has stations on the New York Central, the D., L. & W., the Erie and the Lehigh Valley Railroads; the latter constructed a branch direct to Tonawanda in 1895-96. The Depew Terminal Railroad was built from Depew to Blasdell in 1897. The Depew loop of the Buffalo, Bellevue & Lancaster Electric Railway was opened in 1894. Much of the growth of the village is due to the Depew Improvement Company, which donated the school and church sites, and which was largely suc- ceeded in 1897 by the Depew Syndicate, capitalized at $100,000.

Bowmansville is a station and post office on the West Shore Railroad in the northwest corner of the town, and is the site of the first settle- ment in Lancaster in 1803. The saw and grist mills were owned by the Bowman family for about fifty years; the grist mill passed to John Pentelow and is now abandoned. J. O. Long was formerly a merchant, and Charles W. and John Toynbee have conducted a store there several years. The place has one store, a few shops, and an M. E. church.

Wilhelm is a small hamlet on the Batavia road in the north part of the town. It contains a store, post office, and a Disciples church.

East Lancaster is a station on the D., L. & W. Railroad, and contains a brick yard, a brewery, and minor mercantile interests.

Pavement is a post-office in the southeast part of the town, and is the pumping station of the Depew and Lancaster Water Works Company.

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Town Line is a station on the Erie Railroad, east of Lancaster, hav- ing a hotel and a few houses. The village of the same name lies a little southeast, on the line between Alden and Lancaster, and is noticed in full in the chapter on Alden.

Looneyville, a station on the New York Central Railroad on the Alden- Lancaster town line, takes its name from Robert Looney, who con- ducted a large saw mill, store, farm. etc. After his death the place lost its old-time business activity.

TOWN OP MARILLA.

This town is situated near the center of the eastern border of Erie county, with Alden on the north, Elma on the west, and Wales on the south. The town was formed on December 2, 1823, from Wales and Alden, with its present boundaries, which embraced all of the original Buffalo Creek Indian Reservation situated in the two towns named, ex- cept a strip on the north side, which remained a part of Alden. The territory lying east of the Two Rod road and also a tract a mile wide at the south end of the remaining portion was a part of the purchase by the Ogden Co. from the Indians. The town has an area of about twenty- eight square miles, or 17,208 acres. It is drained by the headwaters of Little Buffalo Creek, and Big Buffalo Creek crosses its southwestern corner. The surface is rolling, with sandy and gravelly soil in the north- west and southwest parts, and clay intermingled in other localities.

Settlement began in Marilla territory in 1827, when Jesse Bartoo lo- cated on the farm now owned (but not occupied) by Isaac M. Watson, in the southern part of the town. John M. Bauder soon afterward pur- chased this place and also the Erasmus Adams farm near Porterville. George W. and Jeremiah Carpenter bought in the same year a tract on the Four Rod road east of Marilla village, now owned by Frank Brooks. In 1828 Joseph Carpenter settled on land including the site of the village. In the next spring Ira and Justus Gates purchased ten acres on the northwest corner of Carpenter's land, and built a frame house and a saw mill. Among the settlers of 1830 were Rodney Day, Cyrus Finney, John L. Chesbro and Horace Clark. Rice Wilder came in in 1831, and in 1832 Jesse Bartoo built a saw mill on the site of Porterville, and soon afterwards added a grist mill. The place was long known as Bartoo's Mills. In 1833 Thomas Kelsey, Joseph Flood, Archibald Porter, Samuel Stewart, Nathan White, John Brewer, Simeon Thomasand Ephrain Kelsey settled in the town. Early settlers

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on the Two Rod road south of the village were Elias Mason, Daniel Nettleton, Ezra Clark, Dudley Dennison, John M. Bauder, Walter Markham, Zera Parker and others. At the same period William Hatch, Elias Hatch, Leonard Hatch, Fordyce Bell and others located in the territory of Marilla west and southwest of Bartoo's Mills. Other prom- inent settlers were L. A. Bartoo, John A. Campbell, George Eldridge, R. B. Mason and James R. Stedman.

Marilla Village .- After the building of the saw mill and a dwelling on the site of the village in 1829, by Ira and Justus B. Gates, Jeremiah Carpenter settled there and built, about 1840, a house, which has been occupied since about 1877 by Ellery E. Dennison as a harness shop. Very soon afterwards H. F. Mason, Joshua Axtell, Fowler Munger, Darius Lindsey and Martin Kennedy settled there and built houses. After the sale of the main part of the Indian Reservation in 1842 Jon- athan Blanchard, Elder Salisbury, George Shay and John Chadderden settled on the west side of the Two Rod road. In 1847 Miles Carpen- ter built the first store, which became a part of the Albert Adams house. The place was called Shanty Town and South Alden previous to the formation of the town of Marilla. Before the close of the last war the hamlet had grown to a thriving village. A large part of the place was destroyed by fire in 1865, but was at once rebuilt. The old saw mill changed hands several times, and was finally converted into a cheese factory and subsequently torn down. A second saw mill was built by Joseph and Jeremiah Carpenter in 1838 and soon passed to pos- session of James Chadderden; it was abandoned about 1863. A grist mill was built in 1858 by John C. Carpenter, H. T. Foster and Frank Chesbro; it had several different owners, and was burned December 25, 1893, and rebuilt by William Van Cotter.

After the first rude tavern, the Spring Hotel was built in 1853 by Niles Carpenter; it had numerous proprietors and is still in use. The Willis Hotel was built in 1863 by R. G. Willis; it is unoccupied. Har- rison T. Foster succeeded Niles Carpenter, the first merchant, for a short time, and then in company with Charles Walker built a second store in 1851, and closed it in 1854. In the fall of 1855 H. T. Foster and J. H. Brooks formed a partnership which continued to 1865. After other changes Mr. Foster took G. C. Monchow as partner in 1874 and the business is still carried on under the firm name of H. T. Foster & Co., though Mr. Foster died in 1889. Other past merchants of the vil- lage were Philip Conly, grocer (1853), Henry Barrett, Samuel Adams, 73

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Halliday & Mills (hardware), Abraham Bemis, Jeremiah and William Carpenter, Bass & Miller, Johnathan K. Bass, Thomas Miller, Henry Sergeant, G. P. Miller & Co. and J. H. Brooks & Co.

Dr. Hiram Taber was the first physican in the village about 1853 and died in 1874. Dr. Andrew J. Brooks was the next and he also is de- ceased. Dr. I. G. Wheeler succeeded.

The first postmaster was James Chadderden; his successors have been Fowler Munger, Stephen Chadderden, H. T. Foster, Jefferson H. Brooks, Henry D. Harrington, Alfred Ebbs, Jay Winch and Gusta- vus C. Monchow.

The Marilla Record was established by F. C. Webb in January, 1883; it lived about two years. Subsequently Benjamin Morey started the Industrial Union, which he removed to Alden. About 1893 Harvey H. Blackman founded Poultry, Garden and Fruits, a monthly, which was discontinued in the spring of 1896.

F. H. Mason built the first blacksmith shop in 1851, and Lyman O. Ford the first wagon shop in 1852. Other blacksmiths of the village have been Julius Wilder, Albert Adams and Charles Otto.

The village now contains 1 general store, 1 hardware and furni- ture store, 1 hotel, 1 flour mill, 1 creamery, 1 harness shop and four churches.

Porterville .- This is a hamlet in the southeast part of the town, where Jesse Bartoo built his saw mill in 1832. In 1836 he added a grist mill. These passed to Archibald Porter a few years later, from whom the place received its present name. R. G. Willis owned the mills later and during the late war Erasmus R. Adams purchased the prop. erty and still owns the grist mill. Royal A. Barron kept a small store from 1838 to 1840, and E. R. Adams opened a store which is now kept by his son. He built a new grist mill in 1880 and has long been a leading citizen of the place. A cheese factory built by F. H. Cum- mings is not now in operation. There is a tin shop and a few other shops in the hamlet.

Williston .- This is a hamlet taking its name from Eugene, John and James Willis, who established a steam saw mill there in 1863. After passing to possession of various persons it was abandoned. Charles Willis built a store in 1879 and the place has now two stores and one church.

Iron Bridge is a small settlement three and one-half miles east of Marilla village where a grist and saw mill are in operation, which were formerly owned by Herman Jahn.

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Dairying is carried on to a considerable extent in this town but not with such success as in many other portions of Erie county.

The first town meeting was held at the house of Niles Carpenter, March 7, 1854, and the following officers elected:

Jesse Bartoo, supervisor; Daniel A. Smith, town clerk; Timothy G. Grannis, Royal R. Barron and Seth P. Tabor, justices of the peace; Thomas Miller, superin- tendent of schools; Julius P. Wilder, commissioner of highways; James P. Flood, assessor; John R. Wilder, collector; Erasmus R. Adams, overseer of the poor; John R. Wilder, La Fayette Lamb, Levi T. Ball and Sylvester R. Hall, constables; Abner S. Adams, Peter Ostrander and Jacob Hart, inspectors of election; Jeremiah Carpen- ter, town sealer.

The supervisors of Marilla, with their years of service, have been as follows:

Jesse Bartoo, 1854; Seth P. Tabor, 1855; Niles Carpenter, 1856; Joseph P. Flood (to fill vacancy), 1856; Peter Ostrander, 1857; Sylvester Franklin, 1858; Jonathan Stedman, 1859; Harrison T. Foster, 1860-64; Samuel S. Adams, 1865; Harrison T. Foster, 1866; Benjamin Fones, 1867-69 (died in 1869); Whitford Harrington, elected to fill vacancy, 1869, and re-elected in 1870; Henry D. Harrington, 1871-72; Robert H. Miller, 1873; Russell D. Smith, 1874-78; Erasmus R. Adams, 1879-80; Harrison T. Foster, 1881-85; James Willis, 1886; Asa B. Smith, 1887; James Willis, 1888; Harrison T. Foster, 1889; Erasmus R. Adams, 1890-94; John R. Veeder, 1895-97.

The few Methodists in this town previous to 1850 worshiped in an old building half a mile east of Marilla village. It was owned by the Wesleyan Methodists and used by other denominations. After its abandonment in 1850 the Methodists met in Sons of Temperance hall until 1854, when they erected the present church.

The Disciples church was organized in 1856 and built a house of worship in 1858. The society was formerly much more numerous than at present.

The Free Baptist church of Marilla was organized in 1874, and its house of worship was erected in the next year.

The Roman Catholic church was erected in 1854, under direction of a priest from Buffalo.

The United Brethren society built a church at Williston in 1873.

TOWN OF NEWSTEAD.

This town was formed from Clarence on the 27th of March, 1823, with the name Erie, which was changed to Newstead' in April, 1831.

1 So named by Hon. Millard Fillmore, then representative from Erie county in the State As- sembly; Mrs. Fillmore happened to be reading Byron at the time, and suggested the name of his ancient home, Newstead Abbey, for this town.

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It includes township 12, range 5, and a part of township 13, range 5, of the Holland Company's survey, and embraces about 30,708 acres and also a small part of the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, lying in the northeast corner, over which the town has a nominal jurisdiction. Newstead lies in the northeast corner of Erie county, and is bounded on the north by Niagara county, on the east by Genesee county, on the south by Alden, and on the west by Clarence. Tonawanda Creek forms the northern boundary, and into it flows Murder Creek, which the Indians called See-un-gut, signifying "roar of distant waters." The south part is drained by the headwaters of Ellicott Creek. A limestone ledge, containing hydraulic limestone, crosses the center of the town; on the north the surface is level with a soil of clayey loam, marl and sand, while on the south it is gently undulating, the soil be- ing a clayey loam underlaid with limestone. The principal occupation of the inhabitants outside of Akron is general farming.

The first town meeting in Erie (now Newstead) was held in May, 1823, but on account of the destruction of the early records by fire it is impossible to give the first officers, etc. The following is as complete a list of the supervisors of the town as can be ascertained:

John Boyer, 1825, 1831-32; William Jackson, 1833; Cyrus Hopkins, 1835 and 1837; John Rogers, 1838; Hezekiah Cummings, 1839-40; Almon Ford, 1842; Marcus Mc- Neal, 1843-45; John Boyers, 1846-47; Henry S. Hawkins, 1848-50; Lorenzo D. Covey, 1851; Edward Long, 1852-53; Henry S. Hawkins, 1854; B. K. Adams, 1855; Lorenzo D. Covey. 1856; E. J. Newman, 1857-58; Ezra P. Goslin, 1859-61; Henry Atwood. 1862; Ezra P. Goslin, 1863-65; Marcus Lusk, 1866-72; William T. Magoffin, 1873; D. B. Howe, 1874; H. H. Newton, 1875; William T. Magoffin, 1876; Timothy W. Jackson, 1877-84; William T. Magoffin, 1885-86; William M. Cummings, 1887-94; Henry L. Steiner, 1895-97.

That portion of the original Tonawanda Indian Reservation lying in Newstead comprised about thirteen square miles and included the site of Akron village. In August, 1826, the Ogden Land Company pur- chased about 7,000 acres of this tract and opened it to settlers, leaving the reservation with its present area of about 2,000 acres. In 1698 Joseph Ellicott caused the main trail of the Six Nations to be cut out from Batavia to Buffalo; it ran westward through Akron and Clarence Hollow, and was the first wagon track in Erie county. What is known as the Buffalo road was opened about a year later. In 1800 Timothy S. Hopkins and Otis Ingalls raised the first piece of wheat on the Hol- land Purchase, in the Vandeventer neighborhood. They soon became permanent residents of Amherst and Clarence respectively.

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The first land sold in Newstead was lot 10, section 8, which Asa Chapman "articled " on November 3, 1801, for $2.75 an acre; soon af- terward he was living near Buffalo and probably never settled on this tract. Other purchasers of 1801 were Peter Vandeventer (four lots in sections 8 and 9), Timothy Jayne, David Cully and Orlando Hopkins.

David Cully remained a permanent resident; in 1802 Peter Vande- venter settled on the Buffalo road, in the west part of the town, and opened a log tavern, which was probably the first building in Newstead. The same year William Deshay, John Hill and Samuel Hill, jr., pur- chased land. The first town meeting of any kind on the Holland Pur- chase was held at Vandeventer's tavern March 1, 1803, when Peter Vandeventer was elected supervisor of the new town of Batavia; David Cully was chosen town clerk. The first State election on the Purchase was also held at this tavern in April, 1803.

According to the records of the Holland Company Samuel Beard, William Chapin, Jacob Dunham, Samuel Edsall and Asahel Powers purchased land in 1803, and Charles Bennett, John Felton, Silas and Thomas Hill, and Cyrus Hopkins were purchasers in 1804. About this time Charles Barney, Aaron Beard, T. Cole, Robert Dunham and Samuel Miles became settlers. The town meetings of 1804 and 1805 were held at Vandeventer's tavern and he was elected supervisor; the meeting of 1805 was the first one in the new town of Willink, which was about eighteen miles wide and extended from Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario. John Beamer, Aaron Dolph, Eli Hammond, Henry Russell and George and Samuel Spaulding purchased land in Newstead in 1805, and about 1806 Archibald S. Clarke opened the first store in Erie county outside of Buffalo, near the Vandeventer tavern. Early in 1807 Charles Knight and Lemuel Osborne arrived, and in July of that year the first Methodist church or class in the county was organized at Mr. Knight's house, he being the class leader. The same year the first school was taught by a Mr. Keith. Archibald S. Clarke was the first member of assembly from the old county of Niagara, being elected in 1808, 1809 and 1810; about 1811 he became the first postmaster in all this terri- tory, having the office-named Clarence-at his store; in 1812 he was elected the first State senator from Erie county.

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Our County and Its People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York (Volume 1), Part 65

Author: Truman C. White Publication date: 1898 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1017

Author: Truman C. White
Publication date: 1898
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1017