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Eisenhower, Dwight D., 108b; President, 110a Elbertas (peaches), 118a
Electro-chemicals Department, 133a
Electro-Metallurgical Company, the, 138a Elk's Temple, 103b
Ellet, Charles, 148b Ellet's bridge, 148b Ellicott, Andrew, 49a Ellicott brothers, 49a Ellicott, Joseph, 47b, 49ab, 50ab, 65b, 68a
Ellicott's Company, Joseph, 53a
Ellsworth, Colonel Timothy, 93a
Elmira, New York, 134a
Emergency Relief bill, an, 105b
Empire State, 2a
England, 37b, 42a, 102b, 134b, 140a; destroyers to, 106a; from, 133a, 146b; in, 121a; industrial city in, 68b; war with, 67b
English (language), 72b
English- and Dutch traders, 35b; army, 38a; Chan- nel, the, 146a; colony, 33a; goods, 33a; hands, 67a; rum, 33a; the, 25b, 32b, 35b, 37a, 38a, 67ab; traders, 33a, 37a; traveler, an, 112b, 115b; units, 103a
Erie Avenue, 134b; plant, the, 134b
Erie Canal, 8a, 62b, 69b, 70b, 71b, 72b, 73ab, 75a, 76ab, 78b, 81 ill., 82a, 82 ill., 84b, 86b, 116a, 121b, 122b, 123a, 124a; Grand, 70b; water, 139a
Erie County, 115a
Erie, Fort, 91a
Erie, Lake, 7a, 32a, 33a, 65b, 66b, 88a, 122a; water, 82a
Europe, 42b, 53b, 103b; 130ab; battlefields of, 107b; events in, 102a; from, 106b, 120b; in, 103a; in eastern, 104a; through, 83b; to, 7b, 37b; war in, 102a, 102b, 105b
European-affairs, 42b; markets, 7b; scientists and engineers, 127b; traders, 20a
Europeans, 20a Evershed, Thomas, 127a, 139b
Evershed's plan, 126a, 127a
Fairbanks, Joshua, 65a Fairchild, 69a Fairchild's Eagle Tavern, 69a
Fall, Albert, 104a
Falls of Ongiara, 144a
Falls, Niagara, 4ab, 8ab, 30a, 46b, 57b, 64b, 65a, 67b, 68a, 69ab, 70a, 71b, 78b, 86b, 88ab, 89a, 90a, 91ab, 92ab, 93a
Falls of Niagara, 2a Falls Street, 125b Falls View Bridge, the, 150a
False Face masks, 22b, ill.
Far East, from the, 106b
Farm Products of Niagara County, map, 111a
Father Dallion, 18b, 19a
Father Louis Hennepin, 30a Father Millett, 34b ill.
Index 3
February, 51a, 52a; gloomy, 20a; 1886, 127a Federal-Government, 105b; money, 85a Federal Power Commission, the, 140b Fellenberg, the (plum), 48b Fenians, the, 91a Festival, Green Corn, 15a Festival of Lights, 104b Fifties, the, 108a
"Fighting 28th," the, 89b Fillmore, President Millard, 90a Fish, Lebbeus, 73b Fitts, Jacob, 61a
Five Mile Meadow, 58a, 65a; force at, 58b Five Nations, 12b, 20b
Flagler, General Benjamin, 93ab Florida, 117b
Fontaine, Marion 1a, 33ab
Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation, 76b Fort Conti, 32b, 34a
Fort Erie, 91a
Fort George, 56ab, 57ab
Fort Gray, 57b, 58ab
Fort Niagara, 5a, 7b, 15b, 32b, 34a, 35ab, 37ab, 38ab, 39ab, 40b, 41a, 42ab, 46ab, 49b, 56a, 57b, 58ab, 61a, 62a, 64ab, 65a, 67a, 69b, 73a, 82b, 102b; French castle at, 36 ill.
Fort Niagara, Little, 35b, 37a, 38b, 39a
Fort Orange, 21a, 25b
Fort Schlosser, 40b f., 41b, 46a, 49b, 57b, 58a, 60a, 67ab, 68ab, 69ab, 72a, 86a, 115b, 121a
Fort Schlosser Road, the, 70a Fort Sumter, 89a Four Mile Creek, 38a
Fowler, 78b
France, 28a, 32b, 33a, 35b, 37b, 39b, 62b, 102a, 103a; back to, 16a; born in, 145b; bound for, 53b; em- pire for, 28b; for, 35b; in, 107b; outpost of, 28a, 35a; their struggle with (British), 54a; to, 117b; war between Britain and, 42b Franciscan friar, 18b, 19a
Freeman, Asher, 76a
Freeman's Corners, 76a
French-agents, 40b; and Indian War, 7b, 37b, 40a, 67a, 120b; and Indian war parties, 33b; and In- dians, army of, 39a; and Indians, party of, 32b; armies, no, 40b; arms, 34a; army, 53b; attempts, 16a; authorities, 35b; brandy, 7b, 33a; Cana- dians, 87b; captains in the West, his, 34a; castle at Fort Niagara, 36 ill .; chateau, like a, 37a; city, 28a; defenders, 38a; dreams of Empire in North America, 40a; Empire, 25b; empire in the West, 39b; explorer, 16a, 28a, 70a; explorer, first, 2a; explorers, 4b; feelings, 33b; flag, 37a; fort, 37a; fort, ruins of the, 40b; fort, second, 34a; forts in Pennsylvania, 38b; forts in the West, 40a; goods, 182, 20a; government, 7b; hands, fur trade in, 34a; hatchets, 19b; king, 40b; king's sleep, 40b; luck of the, 37b; mis- sionaries, 18a, 20a; muskets, 33b, 39a; national
anthem, 85b, 145b; officers, 39b; outpost, 4b; pigeon hunters, 38a; plan, 37a; Portage Master, 65a; powder magazine, 82b; power in Niagara, 40a; priests, 7b, 19a, 20a; reinforcements, 39a; revenge, 19b; settlement, 23a; settlements, 21b, 22b, 23a, 33a; ship (Griffon), 32b; soldiers, 24a, 37b, 38b, 39b; storehouses, 67a; stronghold, 37b; the, 2a, 4b, 5a, 7b, 8b, 16ab, 17ab, 18ab, 19a, 20a, 21ab, 22a, 25ab, 28ab, 32ab, 33ab, 34a, 35ab, 37ab, 39b, 40a, 42b, 53b, 60b, 65ab, 67a, 120b; town, 22b; trade, 7b, 22a, 32b, 65a; trade goods, 18b, 23a; trader, every outlaw, 35b; traders, 17b, 30a, 34a; trading, 18a, 34a; trading companies, 22a; units, 103a; withdrawal, 39b
Frenchman, 28b, 33a; a, 19a; no, 32b Frenchmen, 16a, 28a, 33a; two, 18b
Friar Dallion, 19b
Friday September 6, 99a
Fugitive Slave Law, 87b, 88ab
Gaskill, Charles B., 90b, 125a, 127a
Gaskill's company, 127a
Gasport, 7a, 75ab
Gasport Academy, 76a
Gazette, Niagara Falls, 89b, 90a, 91b, 92b, 93a, 96a, 102b, 103a, 105b, 125a, 126a
Gazette office, Niagara Falls, 98a, 125a, 126a
General Benjamin Flagler, 93ab
General Grant, 90a
General Henry Dearborn, 54b, 57b
General Isaac Brock, 54b, 56ab
General Jacob Brown, 60b
General John J. Pershing, 103a
General John Sullivan, 42ab, 46a
General Lee, 90a
General McClure, 57b, 60a
General Motors, 123b
General Parkhurst Whitney, 89a
General Peter B. Porter, 60b, 92b
General Phineas Riall, 58a, 60a; the attack of, 69a General Prideaux, 38ab
General Stephen Van Rensselaer, 54b, 62a
General William Hull, 54b, 56a, 62a
Genesee-frontier, 25a; region, 115b
Genesee River, 25a, 42ab, 46a, 47a, 49b, 50a, 67b
Genesee Valley, 67b
Geneseo, 47a; at, 42a
Geneva, 50a
Geneva Experimental Station, 120a
George, Fort, 56ab, 57ab Georgia, 118b Georgian Bay, 24a
German-Americans, 103a; ancestry, Americans of, 102b; and Irish immigrants, 86b; and Irish workers, 86b; armies, 102a; chemical company, 133a; chemical patents, 104a; Embassy, 102b; immigrant, a, 133a; language, 103a; neighbor- hoods, 102b; shopkeepers, 86b; spies, 102b; store- keepers, 102b; submarines, 106a; workers, 88b Germans, 102ab, 103a, 107a; accent of, 86b; hate
against, 103a; hatred of, 133a; the, 87b, 105b- 106a
Germany, 70ab, 102a, 104a, 105b, 107b, 125b; a new, 105b; army of, 106a; feelings against, 102b; revolution in, 86b; war with, 102b
Germany's-actions, 102b; surrender, 107b
Ghent, Treaty of, 60b
Gill Creek, 6b Gillet, Alfred, 58a, 59b
Gillet family, 58a
Gillet, Jervis, 58a, 59b
Gillet, Miles, 58b, 59b
Gillet, Mrs., 58ab, 59a
Gillet, Orville, 58ab, 59ab
Gillet, Solomon, 58a
Gillets, the, 59b
Goat Island, 6b, 69b, 99b, 120a, 121a, 126a, 142a, 145b, 150b Goat Island bridge, 124a
God, sign from, 20a
Golden Jubilees (peaches), 118a
Good Friday, 1688, 34b, 35a
"Good Old Cow Campaign," 101b, 102a
Gorge Line trolley, 99a
Gould, Theodore, 89a
Goundry, George, 72b
Governor DeWitt Clinton, 82ab, 83a
Governor's-departure, the, 82b, 83a; fleet, the, 82a; mansion, the, 82b
Governor-General of Canada, 150b
Governor Lucius Robinson, 150b
Governor Morgan Lewis, 65b
Governor of Canada, 34a, 37a
Governor of New York, 88a, 105a
Governor of Ohio, 96b Governor Theodore Roosevelt, 135a
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 108a Graham, Carlisle, 146a Graham's barrel, in, 146a
Grand Island, 6b, 7a, 72ab, 73a, 122a; to, 133b
Grand Island Bridge, 142b
Grand Erie Canal, 61b, 70b
Grant, General, 92a; Lee's surrender to, 91a
Grant, President, 92ab, 104a
Grass Island, 6b, 124a Gray, Fort, 57b, 58ab Gravelot, Jean Pierre, 145b
Great Britain, 40a, 54a, 91a; outpost of, 37b
Great Lakes, 15b, 16a, 120b, 121b, 122a; one of the, 32b; trade, 65b; Upper, 30a, 32a, 33a
Great Lakes Carbon, 142b
Great Manitou, the, 144a
Great Spirit, 15a Green Bay, 32a Green Corn Festival, 15a
Green Island, 6b Grieg, Walter, 105a
Griffin, Julia, 90b Griffon, the, 30ab, 30b ill., 32ab, 70a
Index 4
Griffon's, the-hull, 30b; voyage, 32a Guam, 106b Guernsey cattle, the, 115a Gulf of Mexico, 32b
Haines, Jesse P., 64b, 73b Hale Havens (peaches), 118a Hall, Charles M., 129b Hamilton, Ontario, 62b Hanna, Mark, 100b Harding, Warren G., 103b Harding's terms, 104a Harrison, Benjamin, 95b, 108a Harrison Division, 123b Harrison, Jonas, 65a Harrison Radiator Corporation, 123b Hartford, Connecticut, 68a Hartland, 115a Hasslacher, Jacob, 133a Hatch, Junius, 122b, 123a Hathaway, Otis, 61b
Hawaii, attack on, 106b Hayes, Rutherford B., 92b, 93a Hazlett, George, 146a Heavy Artillery, 90b Hennepin, Father Louis, 30a, 32a Hiawatha, 12b Hill, William "Red," 146ab Hill, William Jr., 146b Hinan and the serpent, the legend of, 144a Hitchcock, Enoch, 75b Hitler, Adolph, 105b, 106a
Hoag and Clark, nursery of, 117a Hodge, Dr. J. W., 149b Holland Land Company, 47ab, 49ab, 50a, 51, 62a, 72b, 75ab, 78a Holland Land Purchase, 47a, 49ab, 68a Holly Manufacturing Company, 123a Holstein cattle, the, 115a Homan, 148a
Homan's-hand, 148a; hands, 148a Homestead steel strike, 95b Honeycutt, James, 146b Hooker, Elon Huntington, 135a Hooker's genius, 135a Hooker Chemical Company, the, 133a, 135b Hooker Chemical Corporation, 142b
Hooker Electrochemical Company, 135a Hooker Research Center, 138b Hoover, Herbert, 105a, 105b q. Horseshoe Fall, 85, 86a, 144b, 146b, 149b Hotchkiss' store, 66a House, 73b Howell, Jane, 68a Hudson, B. and J., 77b Hudson Brothers, 77b Hudson, Henry, 21a Hudson River, 21a, 59b, 85b Hulett, Theodore, 87a
Hulett, T. G., 148a Hulett's cable-car, 148a Hull, General William, 54b, 56a, 62a
Hungary, 104a Hunt, Washington, 87a, 88ab, 89a, 91a, 123a Hunt's attitude, 88a
Huron-children, 19a; church, 23a; country, 24a; frontier, 23b, 24a; frontier town of St. Joseph, 23a; fur fleet, 22b, 23a; fur fleets, 22b; fur trad- ers, 29; grammar and dictionary, 19a; guides, 4b, 6b, 7a; Indians, 10b; land, 23b, 24a; lan- guage, 19a; life, 20a; men, women, and children, 24a; middlemen, 18a; mission, 18b, 19a, 20a; na- tion, 23b, 24a; neighbors, 17ab; no, 23a; pelt, not one, 22b; prisoners, 23b; territory, 23b; town, 19a; town migrated, 24a; towns, 23ab; trade, 20a, 22a; trade route, 22b; traders, 18ab, 22b; treatment, 20a; villages, 18a, 19a; war party, 23b; warriors, 24a; wars, 17a.
Hurons-band of, 24b; the, 5ab, 6ab, 12b, 15ab, 16ab, 17ab, 18ab, 19ab, 20ab, 21ab, 22ab, 23ab, 24ab, 25ab, 28 ill., 32a Hustler, Kate, 65b Hustler, Tom, 65b Hustlers, the, 65b Hyde Park, 104a Hydraulic Power, Company, the, 132b, 133b
Ice Age, 2b Illinois, 91a; in, 121b; man from, 89a India, 110a
Indian, 59ab; a young, 10b; an, 11a, 18b, 39b, 40b, 42b; armies, 40b; attacks, British and, 58a; carriers, 41b; clay pots, 19b ill .; confederacies, 20b; confederacies in North America, 12b; crops, 15a; days of the, 144b; every, 34a; families, 15b; gamblers, 14b; guards, drunken, 59b; hearts, 33a; history, 10b; hunting grounds, 8a; land, 40b, 141b; languages, 28a; legends, 144ab; lieutenants, his, 40b; life, 10a, 20ab, 21a; lodges, 46a; paddles, 10a; problems, 54a; raids, 42b; raids in the West, 60b; reinforcements, 57a; relatives, his, 35b; reservations, 49b; runner, 20b ill .; scouts, 38a; shacks, 67b; traders, 5a, 15b, 33b; trails, 10a; trap, British and, 39b; tribes, 22a; villages, 46b, 115b; war dance, 11b ill .; War, French and, 37b, 67a; war parties, French and, 33b; war-whoops, 8a; warfare, 22a, 58a; warriors and hunters, 10a; ways of living, 20b
Indian Affairs, Commissioner of, 38a, 40b Indian's-face, 59a; life, an, 14a Indiana, in, 121b
Indians, 2a, 4b, 6a, 7ab, 8b, 10ab, 14ab, 15ab, 16ab, 17b, 18ab, 19b, 21a, 22a, 24b, 25b ill., 28ab, 30a, 32a, 33ab, 34a, 37ab, 38a, 39b, 40ab, 41a, 42a, 46ab, 47ab, 49a, 53b, 54ab, 57a, 58ab, 60b, 61b, 65ab, 66a, 67a, 68ab, 77a, 87a, 91b, 121a; ad- miring, 35b; Algonkin, 24a; angry, 141b; army
of French and, 39a; drunken, 59a, 68b; friendly, 35a ; friendly Tuscarora, 60a; Huron, 10b; John- son's, 38a; languages of the, 33a; Neuter, 4b; New York, 12ab; New York Iroquois, 10b; party of French and, 32b; Susquehanna, 7a, 25a; swarms of, 57a; the, 144ab; Tuscarora, 141b; western, 18b, 22a
Indians'-rights, 49a; story teller, 144a
Industrial Products of Niagara County, map, 136 International Acheson Graphite Company, the, 132a International Carnival, the, 146b International Hotel, 90b, 99b
International Joint Commission, an, 151a International Niagara Power Commission, 127b International Paper Company, the, 133b, 138a, 142b International Power Bridge, the, 150a Iowa, 95b
Ireland-independent for, 91a; potato famine in, 86b Irish-and German immigrants, 86b; brotherhood, 91a; canal workers, 76a, 121b; Catholics, 88b; immigrants, 86b; laborers, 86b; shantytown, an, 125a; shopkeepers, 86b; the, 87ab; town, 73b; workers, 73b, 86b, 87b
Irishmen, 122b "Iron Hand," 30a Irondequoit Bay, 34a
Iroquois-adoption, 25a; army, 24a; attack, 25a; beaver, 21b; blockade, 23a; chiefs, 47b; coun- try, 21b; Empire, map 13; fierceness, 23b; force, 23b; home. 14 ill .; Indians, 10b; invasion, 24a; lands, 12b; League of the, 12ab, 21a; life 21a; neighbors, 17a; raiders, 22b; reinforcements, 23b; territory, 12b, 25a; territory, invasion of, 34a; the, 8a, 12ab, 16a, 17a, 20ab, 21ab, 22ab, 23b, 24a, 25ab, 28a, 34a, 38; the angry, 22b; tribes, 21a, 24a; tribes, five, 12a; village, 22b; villages, 23b; war parties, 22b, 23a; war party, 29 ill .; warriors, 22b; warriors, one hundred, 23b; warriors, six hundred, 38a; warriors, two thousands, 21b; wars, 17a; 21ab, 22a, 25b; women, 16b ill.
Iroquois, Lake, 4a Island, Bath, 121ab, 123b, 126a
Island, Cayuga, 6b, 30b, 69b, 98b
Island, Christian, 24ab
Island, Goat, 6b, 69b, 99b, 120a, 121a, 126a, 142a, 145b, 150b; bridge, 124a Island, Grand, 6b, 7a, 72ab, 73a, 122a; Bridge, 142b; to, 133b Island, Grass, 6b, 124a
Island, Green, 6b
Island, Little, 95a Island, Manhattan, 120b
Island, Navy, 86ab
Island, Squaw, 32a Island Street, 95a Island, Tonawanda, 72a, 73a Islands, Three-Sister, 6b Italian soldier, 30a Italy, 107b
Index 5
Jackson's bakery, John, 74a Jackson, President Andrew, 84b, 85a Jackson's money policy, President, 86a Jackson, Stonewall, 89b Jacobs, Charles B., 131b Jacobs, Steven, 72a
January-26, 1679, 30b; of 1869, 149a; 10, 1889, 149b; 26, 1938, 150a; 1958, 142a
Japan, 106b, 107b; from, 116b Japanese-aliens, 107a; planes, 106b; the, 106b Jazz Age, 103b Jeddo, at, 76b Jersey cattle, the, 115a
Jesuit, 28a Jesuits, 19ab, 20a Jesuits' adventure, 19a Jewett, Colonel Ezekiel, 82b-83a Jewett's part, 85a
Johnson Creek, 76b Johnson, Sir William, 38a, 39b, 40b, 41ab
Johnson's-army, 39b; Indians, 38a
Joncaire, Chabert, 35ab, 37a, 65a, 67a; dreams of, 142b
Joncaire's-finger, 35a; help, 35b; mill-race, 121a; water wheel, 120b Joncaire, Chabert Jr., 120ab, 121a
Jones, James, 147a Judge Augustus Porter, 116a
Judge William Marcy, 83a
July, 83b, 84a, 89b, 95b, 112b; day, 23a; 1759, 120b; 1759, in, 38a; 26, 1759, 39b; 4, 1857, 124b; 4, 1928, 146b; 1960, 146b
June, 83b; afternoon, 62a; 1 and 2, 90b; 3, 90b; 7, 92b; 5, 1861, 147a; 12, 90b, 1825, 75a; 1892, 94a; 10, 1892, 94b; 11, 1892, 94b; 1897, 98b
Keefer, Edward, 148b Keefer, Samuel, 149a Keefer's bridge, 149a Kelsey's Hotel, 66a Kempville, 61a Kendall, William, 146a Kennedy, Richard, 122b, 123a Khrushchev, Nikita, 110a King George III, 42a King Louis XIV, 32b King's Store, 35b Kingsley, Police Officer, 95ab Kingsley's family, 95a
Know-Nothing-a leading, 87b; buttons and hats, 87b; party, 87ab, 88b; squabble, 87b; turmoil, 87b Know-Nothings, 91b Korean War, the, 101a, 108b
La Belle Famille, 65a; at, 39b La Motte, Dominick, 30a, 32b La Motte's-party, 30a; storehouse, 30a La Salle, 28ab, 30a, 32ab, 35b, 37a, 69b, 70a La Salle's-father, 28a; idea, 28a; men, 30b ill .; plan, 32b; plans, 32b
La Salle-future of, 70a; village, 70a La Salle Park, 104a Lafayette, 75a
Lake, Cayuga, 50a Lake Champlain, 16a
Lake Erie, 7a, 32a, 33a, 65b, 66b, 88a, 90a, 122a; water, 82a, 83a Lake Iroquois, 4a Lake Michigan, 32a
Lake Nipissing 4b
Lake Oneida, 49b; route, 33a
Lake Ontario, 2b, 4ab, 7a, 8b, 16a, 18b, 24b, 28b, 30a, 33a, 37a, 49b, 57b, 61ab, 62a, 65b, 66b, 77a, 83b, 127a, 142b, 144b
Lake Road, 60a
Lake, Seneca, 46a
Lake Tonawanda, 4a
Lakes, Great, 15b, 16a; one of the, 32b; trade, 65b
Lambert, the (cherry), 118b
Latta, John, 66a
Leach, Bobby, 146b
"League Longhouse," 12b
League of the Iroquois, 12ab, 21a
Lee, General, 90a; surrender of at Appomattox, 90b
Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomatox, 91a
Lelawala, 144b; the tale of, 144a
Lery, Gaspard de, 37a
Levan, W. S., 123b Lewis, Governor Morgan, 65b
Lewis Town, 65b
Lewis's harness shop, Elliott, 74a
Lewiston, 2b, 4a, 8a, 18b, 25a, 30a, 35b, 37a, 41ab, 46a, 50a, 53a, 56ab, 57a, 58ab, 59ab, 60a, 64a, 65ab, 66ab, 67a, 68ab, 70a, 71a, 72b, 74b, 78b, 82b, 83a, 86ab, 87ab, 88a, 91a, 99a, 108b, 141b, 142a, 150a; at, 148b; attack on, 58a; destruction of, 58a; fashions, 66a; generators, 141b; life of, 65a; people of, 58b; road from, 60a; slaughter at, 59a
Lewiston's-days, 66b; growth, 65a
Lewiston Academy, 66a
Lewiston-Buffalo Road, 71a
Lewiston Heights, 57b
Lewiston Hill, 30b, 33a, 39a, 40b, 41ab, 65a, 67a
Liberty Bond drives, 103a
Lincoln, Mrs., 91a
Lincoln, President Abraham, 88b, 89a, 91a; assassi- nation of, 91a
Lincoln, Robert, 91a, 100b
Linde Air Products, 138a
Little Fort Niagara, 35b, 37a, 38b, 39a, 41a, 67a Little Island, 95a
Little Niagara River, 30b ill., 32a, 69b, 70a Lockborough, 73b
Lockport, 7a, 66b, 73ab, 74b, 75a, 77a, 78b, 82a, 83a, 84a, 86a, 87a, 88a, 89b, 90ab, 91a, 92ab, 93a, 95a, 96b, 98b, 105a, 115ab, 116b, 117a, 118a, 122b, 123ab, 129b, 139ab, 147a; area, 73a, 74b; boats, 83a; citizens of, 86b; group, 96a; Hotel, Brown's, 73b, 74b; industry, 123ab; locks, 65b ill., 74a;
newspaper, a, 127a; power story, 123a; Repub- licans, 96a; Union, 89b Lockport Felt Company, 61b
Lockport Hydraulic Company, 123a Lockport Mills, 123b
Lockport-Niagara Falls Railroad, 77a Lockport Observatory, 74b Lockport Times, 92b, 93a Lockport Village, 75a
Lockport's-biggest industry, 123b; boats, 83a; boom in power, 123b; bustling days, 75a; cannon, 83a; citizens, 89b; growth, 123a; industries, one of, 123b; Lowertown, 88a; power story, 122b; streets, 74a
London, 127b; to, 42b Lord Amherst, 40ab, 41a
Lord Dufferin, 150b
Lorette, at, 24b
Louisiana, 32b Low, Major James, 93ab Lower Landing, 46a, 49b, 65a Lowertown, 123a
Lumber Shovers' Union, 94a, 96a Lundy's Lane, Ontario, battle of, 60b Lusitania, the, 102b Lussier, Jean, 146b Lutherans, Prussian, 70a
Lyons, at, 145b
Mabee, Colonel Jonathan, 75b Mabee's, at, 75b
MacIntosh, the (apple), 117a Mackenzie, William Lyons, 85ab, 86a, 88a
Mackenzie's-forces; 86b; promise of farms, 85b
Canadian
Magazin Royal, 35b, 37a, 65a
Maid of the Mist, 144a Maid of the Mist, the, 146b, 147a
Main Street, 95a; armory, 98a Major Benjamin Barton, 65b
Major James Low, 93ab
Manchester, 60a, 67b, 68ab, 69ab, 70a, 71b, 87b, 116a, 121ab, 122b; future of, 69a; growth of, 122a
Manchester's tourist trade, 122a
Manchuria, 106b Manhatan Island, 120b
Mann, Dr. Matthew, 100a
March, 51a, 52a; morning, 23b; 16, 1855, 148b; 4, 1861, 89a; of 1892, 93b, 97; 1921, 140b
Marcy, Judge William, 83a, 123a
Marquis Denonville, the, 34ab "Marseillaise," the, 85b, 145b Maryland, 46a, 47a, 49a, 89b Mason, a, 82b, 85a Masonic-brotherhood, 82b; Order, 82b, 83a
Masons-action against all, 83a; Canadian, 82b, 83b; secrets of the, 85a; the, 82b, 83ab
Massachusetts, 47a, 50a, 61b, 72ab, 17b, 134b; Rev- olution in, 42a Massacre at Devil's Hole, 41ab
Index 6
Mather's tannery, G. and E., 76b Mathers, the, 76b
Mathews, George, 125b Mathieson, 138a; story, the, 132b Mathieson Alkali Works, the, 132b Mathieson Company, the, 132b
Matthews, 41a
May, 83b; 1679, 32a; 1763, 40b; 27, 1812, 57b; 1838, 86a; 1875, 92a; 1, 1877, 125b; 1915, 102b; 1930, 133a; of 1945, 107b. Mayor Whitehead, 103a McBurney, Dr. Charles, 100ab
McClure, General, 57b, 58b, 60a McClure's-blunder, 57b; orders, 57b
McIntyre, James, 147a
McKinley, Mrs., 99b
McKinley, President William, 96b, 98ab, 99ab, 100ab; men, 98a
"McKinley and Prosperity; The Country Is Saved," 98a
McKinley's-campaign, 96b; assassination, 91b; death, after, 101a; election, 98a; friends, 100b; ideas, 101a; plans, 101a; supporters, 96b; visit, 99a
Meat Inspection Act, 101b-102a
Mediterranean, the countries of the, 110a
Menlo Park, New Jersey, 130a
Merritt, John, 93a Merritt-Solem, 123b
Methodist-Church, 72b, 77b; minister, 59ab
Mexico, 102b; Gulf of, 32b; into, 10a; troubles with, 102a
Michigan, 54b; American settlements in, 66a; from, 122a, 133b; to, 68a
Michigan Central Railroad span, the, 150a Michigan, Lake, 32a mid-September, 4b mid-Twenties, the, 104b
Middaugh, 65a Middaugh's tavern, 46ab
Middle East, the countries of the, 110a .
Middleport, 7a, 76ab Milburn house, the John, 99a, 100a Mile Strip, 47a, 49b, 65b Millett, Father, 34b ill. Milett, Jean, 35a Milett's cross, 35a Military Road, the, 70a, 71a Millar, Alexander, 64a, 65b Miller, Colonel Thomas W., 104a Miller, Officer, 95a Milwaukee, in, 102
Mississippi River, 25b, 28a, 32b, 68a
Mohawk-chief, 42a; chiefs, 25a; hatchets and knives, 60a; reinforcements, 57a; war-cry, 58b; warriors, a thousand Seneca and, 23b Mohawk River, 49b, 50a, 33ab
Mohawk Valley, 4a, 12b, 41b Mohawks, the, 12b, 21ab, 23a, 58a, 59b, 60a
Monongahela, 130ab; plant, the, 131a Montmorency, the (cherry), 118b
Montreal, 28a, 40a, 64b, 68a, 83b; markets in, 62b
Montressor, Captain John, 41b, 65a
Montressor's railway, 41b, 46a
Moore Business Forms, 133b, 134a, 138a
Moore, Samuel J., 133b, 134a
Morgan, William, 82b, 83ab
Morgan's-debt, 82a; disappearance, 83ab; friends, 83a
Morris, 49a Morris, Robert, 47a, 68a
Morris, Thomas, 47ab, 49ą
Moses, Robert, 141b, 142b; dreams of, 142b
Mountain Ridge, 77a
Mounted Rifles, 90b
Mrs. Gillet, 58ab, 59a
Mrs. Lincoln, 91a
Mrs. McKinley, 99b
Murray, Colonel John, 58a, 64b, 65a
Mynster, Dr. Herman, 100a
Napoleon, the (cherry) , 118b
Napoleon's army, 53b
National Biscuit Company, the, 134ab, 142b
National Carbon, 138a
"Natural Food Company," the, 134b
Naval Militia, 102b
Navy Island, 86ab Nazi party, 106a Nebraska, 96b, 134ab
Neuter (language), 192; words, 20a
Neuter-attack, 25a; chiefs, 19b; contact, 16a; coun- try, 18b, 19b; curses and blows, 19b; farm goods, 18b; father, his, 18b; food, tobacco, and hemp, 18b; forests, 18a; help, 6a; houses, 17a; Indians, 4b; land, 19a; lands, 6a; nation, 25a; relatives, his, 18b; settlement, 18b, 20a; territory, 17a, 9a; tobacco, 18a; town, 25a; village, 5b, 6a, 19b, 25a; villages, 19ab.
Neuters, 6ab; Christianize the, 18b, 23b; naked, 18b; the, 12b, 15b, 16ab, 17ab, 18ab, 19ab, 20ab, 23b, 24a, 25ab, 28a, 32a, 65a.
New England, 73a, 122a; from, 87a; village, 121a
New Englanders, 77a
New France, 16a, 19a, 28a, 34a, 120a; fate of, 39b
New Jersey, 46a, 47a, 130a; from, 61a
New Year's, 86a
New York Central Railroad station, 89a
New York City, 83a, 89a, 102b, 116a, 117b, 121b, 122a. 124a 130h. 132a. 135a: harbor, 82a
New York (State)-central, 10b, 117b, colony, 33ab, 37a; colony, the governor of, 32b; countries, 115a; countries, like other, 114b; Democratic governor of, 92b; frontier, 121a; Governor of, 88a, 105a; Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 108a; Heavy Artillery, 90a; Indians, 12ab; Infantry, 102b; Iroquois Indians, 10b; market, the, 117b; Militia, 57a; "orchard of," 115b; southern, 7a;
western, 115b; State, 2ab, 4a, 8a, 12b, 14a, 16a, 20a, 23b, 24a, 25a, 28b, 33b, 34a, 46a, 47a, 54b, 57a, 61b, 64a, 65b, 68a, 70b, 76a, 83a, 88b, 92a, 108b, 112ab, 114b, 115a, 118a, 121b, 122b, 127a, 134a, 135a, 141a, 150b; beaver in, 21ab; Dutch settlements in, 21b; government of, 150b; into, 10a; legislature, 104a; markets in Eastern, 61a; Militia, 56a
New York State Barge Canal System, 70b
New York State College of Agriculture, 120a
New York State Power Authority, 108b, 141ab, 142ab, 150a
New York State Power Authority's battles, 141b
New York State Power Project, 119 map
New York State Reservation, 126a
New York Volunteers, 89ab
New York, Western, 47ab, 49ab, 56b, 66a, 67b, 68a, 77b, 82b, 83a, 84b, 88b
New Yorkers, 60b
Newark, 57b, 58b, 64a; burning of, 57b, 58a, 60a
Newark's ruins, 57b
Newfane, 7a, 61b, 115a, 122b
Niacet, the, 138a
Niagara, the (grape), 117b, 118a
Niagara, 4ab, 25ab, 28ab, 30a, 31 map, 32ab, 33b, 34a, 35ab, 38a, 39b, 41ab, 42ab, 46a, 50a, 56a, 57b, 82b, 83b, 89a, 90b, 102a, 105a, 115ab, 116a, 120ab, 121a, 126a, 127ab, 139b, 140a, 142b, 144a, 147a, 148a, 150b; area, 2ab, 4ab, 6a, 8a, 30a, 32b, 46b, 47a, 49a, 101b, 103a; armed forces of, 55a; British grip on, 41a; cabbage, 118b; cattle drives to, 46a; conquest of, 139ab; country, 2b, 19a, 21a, 25a, 33a; escarpment, 4a, 75a, 76b, 78b; farmers in, 115a; French power in, 40a; fron- tier farmer, 112a; frontier, the, 112b; gorge, the, 148b; industrial, 128a; industry, 126a; in- vaders, 56a; peach belt, 118a; people of, 54b; power, 120b, 122b, 124ab, 126a; power from, 125b; power of, 91b; region, 2ab, 4ab, 5a, 7ab, 10b, 18ab, 19a, 25b, 26 ill., 28a, 37b, 46a; spec- tacle of, 150ab; story of, 32b; the beauty of, 150a; the British in, 42a; the conquest of, 142b; the great gorge of, 145b; the power of, 151a; waterfalls of, 18b
Niagara's-attraction, 144b; companies, 132b; elec- tric power, 132b; "Good Old Cow Campaign," 101b; mouth. 34a; past, 144a; power, 121a, 122b, 134a; power development, 123b; power output, 139a; problems, 110a; skyline, 128b
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