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Niagara Acetylene, 138a Niagara Alkali Company, 135b
Niagara Alkali Division, 135b
Niagara Chemical Division of the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation, 76b
Niagara City, 67a
Niagara Congressman Peter B. Porter, 54b
Niagara County, 2ab, 5a, 7a, 8ab, 10a, 15b, 16a, 25a, 28ab, 32b, 33b, 35ab, 37ab, 41a, 42ab, 46a, 49ab, 50a, 52a, 53ab, 54b, 55ab, 56a, 57b, 58b, 59b,
Index 7
60b, 61ab, 62a, 64ab, 67a, 70b, 74b, 75a, 76a, 77ab, 78ab, 82a, 83b, 84ab, 86ab, 87ab, 88a, 90ab, 91ab, 92ab, 93ab, 95b, 96ab, 98ab, 100b, 101a, 102ab, 103ab, 104ab, 105b, 107a, 110a, 112a, 113a, 114b, 115ab, 116b, 117b, 118ab, 120, 121b, 122b, 123b; agricultural products of, 115b; ap- ples, 116a; congressman, 101b; farmers, 112b, 114ab, 118b; farming in, 120a; forests of, 61a; history, 110a; men, 90b, 91a, 92a, 108b; nursery- man, 118a; schools and churches, 53a; settlers in, 54b; troops, 89a; Van Rensselaer's campaign in, 54b
Niagara County's-activity, 101a; history, 88a
Niagara County Economic Council, 105a
Niagara County Home Defense Committee, 102b Niagara Diversion Treaty, a, 151a
Niagara Electrochemical Company, 133a
Niagara Falls, 4ab, 8ab, 30a, 46b, 57b, 64b, 65a, 67b, 68a, 69ab, 70a, 71b, 78b, 84b, 86a, 87a, 88a, 89ab, 90ab, 91a, 93b, 95b, 96ab, 97, 98ab, 99a, 100b, 102b, 103ab, 104ab, 105ab, 107ab, 108ab, 123b, 124ab, 125ab, 126a, 127ab, 128a, 129ab, 130ab, 131a, 132ab, 133ab, 134ab, 138ab, 139a, 140b, 141ab, 142a, 144ab, 146a, 148a, 150ab; area, 110a; area plants, 134a; business in, 135a; citizens of, 84b; City of, 67a, 70a, 93b, 97, 105a; Company (42d) of, 95a; Democratic leader, 101b; election of 1856, 87a; Gazette, 88a, 89b, 92b, 93a, 96a, 102b, 103a, 105b, 125a, 126a; Gazette office, 98a, 125a, 126a; officials, 70a; of, 2a; hospitals, 103a; industrial growth of, 138a; industries, 138a; industry, 138b; mills, 124a; patriots of, 89a; people of, 89a, 107b- 108a; plant, the, 129b; product of, 139; Socialist candidate for mayor of, 104a; the people of, 125a; village of, 89b, 127a Niagara Falls Canal Company, 124b
Niagara Falls High School, 103a, 104a
Niagara Falls Hydraulic Company, 124ab
Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company, 125b, 126a, 133b, 140a Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power Company, 140b
Niagara Falls International Hotel, 102a Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, 100a
Niagara Falls Paper Manufacturing Company, 123b Niagara Falls Power Company, 99b, 129ab, 130b, 132b, 140ab, 141a
Niagara Falls Power Waterways, 137 map
Niagara Falls Soldier's Aid Society, 90b Niagara Falls Trust Company, 104b
Niagara Falls, Water Power Company, 124b "Niagara Fools," the, 145b
Niagara, Fort, 5a, 7b, 15b, 32b, 34a, 35ab, 37ab, 38ab, 39ab, 40b, 41a, 42ab, 46ab, 49b, 56a, 57b, 58ab, 61a, 62a, 64ab, 65a, 67a, 69b, 73a, 83b, 120b Niagara Frontier, 53b, 68a, 83b, 84a, 86ab, 91a; re- gion, 71 Niagara Gorge, 4b, 144b Niagara Grape Marketing Company, 117b
Niagara Hotel, 72b, 104b Niagara, Little Fort, 41a, 67a
Niagara Mohawk Power Company, 141a
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, 141a
Niagara Mohawk Power Plant, 141b
Niagara-on-the-Lake, 57b
Niagara Parkway, 142b Niagara Peninsula, 16a Niagara Portage, 7b, 47a, 65b
Niagara Power Project, 62b, 67a, 108b, 142a, 150b
Niagara Reservation, 127a, 150b
Niagara River, 2a, 4ab, 5ab, 6ab, 7b, 8b, 16a, 18b, 20a, 25a, 28b, 30a, 32ab, 33ab, 34a, 35b, 37ab, 41b, 42b, 46a, 47a, 54b, 56a, 57b, 58a, 64a, 65a, 67b, 70ab, 71b, 72a, 78b, 82b, 83b, 86a, 121a, 122a, 124b, 128a, 129ab, 133b, 139b, 142b, 148ab, 150a; the gorge of the, 147a
Niagara River Hydraulic Tunnel Power and Sewer Company, 127a
Niagara River-Lake Erie route, 4b, 7a
Niagara River, Little, 30b ill., 32a, 69b
Niagara River, Upper, 67a
Niagara University students, 103b
Niagara Village, 72b, 73a, 121b
Niagara White Grape Company, 117b
Niagara Wood Paper Company, 126a
Niagara Democrat, 66a
Niagaras (grapes), 117b, 118a
Nipissing, Lake, 4b
Nixon, Vice-President .. 110a "No Help Wanted" signs, 105a
"No Irish Need Apply," 86b non-German neighborhoods, 103a
North America, 2a, 7b, 10ab, 20b, 30a, 37ab, 41b, 98b; British forces in, 40a; French dreams of empire in, 40a; heart of, 65b, 68a; Indian con- federacies in, 12b; through, 16a; to, 10a
North Carolina, 12b, 132a
North Junior High School, 104ab
North Tonawanda 70b, 71ab, 72ab, 73a, 78b, 90b, 91a, 93b, 95ab, 96a, 98a, 105a; City of, 73a; lumber mills, 93b
Northam's store, James, 76b
Northern - armies, 89b; army, 90a; troops, 89a; withdrawal, 90a
Northern Spy, the (apple), 117a November, 30a; day, 19a; election, 96a; 20, 1890, 130a; 16, 1896, 127b; 1918, 103a; of 1932, 105a
October, 95b; air, 82a; day, 75b; morning, 82b; night, 98a; 26, 1825, 82a; 13, 1812, 56b; 10, 1843, 148a; 1890. 127a; 1, 1901, 146b; 10, 1912, 56a; 1959, 142b
Odd Fellows Home, 117a, 118a Officer Miller, 93a
Ohio, 101b, 134a, 146a; governor of, 96b; in, 121b; land in, 68a; to, 121a
Ohio River, 28a Ohio Valley, 37b
Olcott, 7a, 61ab
"Old Eight to Seven," 93a
Oldbury Company, 133a Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, 133a
Olin Mathieson Corporation, 132b
"On to Canada !" 54b
Onandaga-at, 12a; chief, 12b; Tree of Peace, at, 12b Onandagas, the, 12b, 21a
Oneida, Lake, 49b; route, 33a
Oneida River, 49b
Oneidas, the, 12b Ongiara, 5b, 20a, 25a
Onguiaahra, 5b, 20a, 25a, 65a
Onguiaahra's population, 20a
Ontario, 12b, 60b, 62b, 146a; government of, 150b; in, 23b; into, 10a; through, 83b
Ontario Basin, 4a
Ontario, Lake, 2b, 4ab, 7a, 8b, 16a, 18b, 24b, 28b, 30a, 33a, 37a, 49b, 57b, 61ab, 62a, 65b, 66b, 77a, 83b, 128a, 142b, 144b
Ontario Lake Plain, 4ab, 5a, 7a, 77a
Orange, Fort, 21a, 25b
Orient, to the, 28ab
Orleans County, 74b
Orton, Dr. Myron, 77a
Oswego-fort at, 37a; from, 38a
Oswego River, 49b
Ottawa chief, 40b
Ottawa River, 22b, 23a, 29 ill.
"Outpost of Empires," 2a
Pacific-battlefields of the, 107b; islands, 106b
Page, Dr. Timothy, 76a
Pan-American Exposition, 98b
Pan-American Exposition Company. 98b
Pan-Americanism, 91b
Panic of 1837, 85b, 87b, 123a
Panic of 1873, 91ab Panic of 1893, 93b, 96a Park, Dr. Roswell, 100a
Park's train, 100a Patch, Sam, 122b, 144b, 145b
Patriotic Citizens Fund
Patterson, Arthur, 61b
Payne, Colonel Lewis T., 92b, 122a
Pearl Harbor, 106b; the day after, 107a
Pekin, 77ab, 78b
Pekin's-boom years, 77b; growth, 77a
Pendleton, 74b, 82a
Peninsula, Niagara, 16a
Pennsylvania, 39a, 49a, 95b, 129b; French forts in, 38b; victory in, 37b; western, 130a
People of the Longhouse, 12b
"People's party," 95b Perky, Henry D., 134ab
Perky's tours, 134b
Pershing, General John J., 103a
Pettit, Joshua, 71b Philadelphia, 47b; squab, 99b
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Philippines, the, 106b Pittsburgh, 104b, 129b, 130a Pittsburgh Metallurgical, 142b Pittsburgh Reduction Company, 127b, 129ab Poland, invasion of, 106a Police Chief Ryan, 94b, 95a Police Officer Kingsley, 95ab Polish immigrants, 96a Pontiac, 40b, 41b Pontiac's-agents, 41a; Rebellion, 40b Populist party, 96ab Populists, 95b
Port Day, 124b; harbor, 124b Portage Master, 67a, 120a; at Niagara, 41a
Portage Road, 67a, 68a Portage, the, 66b; the wagon-master at the, 115b Porter (town), 118a
Porter's-industries, 121a; paper mill, 123b Porter, Barton and Company, 65b, 67b, 68a, 69a, 72a, 121a
Porter, Judge Augustus, 65b, 67b, 68ab, 69ab, 116a, 121ab, 123b, 124a; dreams of, 142b
Porter's-carrying trade, 121b; dream, 68b, 69b; family, 124a; plan, 124a Porter, Colonel Peter A., 90ab
Porter, General Peter B., 54b, 60b, 65b, 68a, 87a, 90b Porter, James B., 89a
Porter, Jane, 68b, 69a
Porter, Peter B., 121a Porter's-term in Washington, 102; views, 102a
Porter Guards, 90b Porter, Peter A. Jr., 101b, 102a Porter home, 69a Porters, the, 68b, 69b Potts, William, 146a
Pouchot, Captain François, 39ab, 67a, 38b
Pouchot's-cannons, 39a; mind, 39a; refusal to
surrender, 39a; surrender, 39b Power House Number One, 127b Powley, William, 100a Presidency-campaign for the, 96b; the, 92b
President, 42b; campaign for, 95b; election of, 91b President Lincoln, assassination of, 93a President Andrew Jackson, 76a, 84b, 85a President Eisenhower, 110a President Grant, 92b, 104a President (Harding), 103b
President Jackson's money policy, 88a
President Mckinley, 98b, 99ab; still form of the, 100a; the, 100ab; the September 11 report on the, 100a; the wounded, 100a President McKinley's-assassination, 91b; visit, 99a President's, the-blood, 100a; car, 99a; carriage, 99ab; life, 100a; party, 98b, 99a; program, 99a; pulse, 100a; recovery, 100a President Millard Fillmore, 90a President of the United States (Theodore Roosevelt) , 100b President Roosevelt (F. D.), 106b, 107b
President Theodore Roosevelt, 101b President Truman, 107b, 108a President (Wilson), 102a President Wilson, 102b, 103ab "Presidential Special," the, 99a Presidential train, 99a Prest-O-Lite, 138a Prideaux, General John, 38ab Prideaux's sentries, 38b
Prince of Wales, the, 146a Progressive ticket, 102a
Prospect Park, 142ab Prussian Lutherans, 70a
Public Works Administration, the, 105b
Purdy, Gilbert, 61b
P. W. A., the, 105b
Quade, Charley, 78a "Quade's Corners," 78b Quade's store, 78a
Quaker-leaders, 73b; meeting house, 74b Quakers, 73b
Quebec, 16a, 17b, 40a, 83b
Queenston, at, 147a Queenston Heights, 56ab, 57a, 69a Quigley's pulp mill, J. F., 126a
"R. and H.," 133a
Rainbow Bridge, the, 150a
Ransom, Jehial C. S., 78b
Ransomville, 7a, 77b, 78b, 88a
Ransomville's development, 77b
Rapids Boulevard, 104a Rathbun, Benjamin, 84b, 85a Rebellion, Pontiac's, 40b Red Cross, the, 103a
Red Havens (peaches), 118a Red Jacket, 47b, 48 ill.
Red Jacket's-objections, 47b; words, 49a
Red, the (apple), 117a
"Reds," 104a
Regiment, 28th, 89b
Republican, 108b; an independent, 10b; Big Four, 93a, 102a; businessmen, 95b; leaders, 95b; candidate, 102a, 108a; candidates, 93a; Herbert Hoover, 105a; James Wadsworth, 101b; leaders, 93a; majority, 102a; newspaper, 96a; news- papers, 92b; nomination, 102a; party, 91b, 93a, 102a; political scandals, 92a; President Grant, 92a; treachery, 93a; turncoat, 102a; votes, 102a Republicans, 91b, 92b, 93b, 95b, 96ab, 98a, 101b, 102a, 108ab; Lockport, 96a
Reverend E. C. Sanborn, 77b
Revolution-American, 67b, 87b; hero of the, 75a; in Massachusetts, 42a; the, 42ab, 46a, 47a, 55a, 64a, 72a Rhode Island Greenings (apples), 117a Riall, General Phineas, 58a, 60a; the attack of, 69a Richmond Company, 123a
Ridge Road, 59b, 77a, 78a, 82b
River, Chemung, 46a
River, Genesee, 25a, 42ab, 46a, 47a, 49b, 50a, 67b
River, Hudson, 21a, 59a, 83b
River, Little Niagara, 30b ill., 32a, 69b, 70a River, Mississippi, 28a
River, Mohawk, 49b, 50a
River, Niagara, 2a, 4ab, 5ab, 6ab, 7b, 8b, 16a, 18b, 20a, 25a, 28b, 30a, 32ab, 33ab, 34a, 35b, 37ab, 41b, 42b, 46a, 47a, 54b, 56a, 57b, 58a, 64a, 65a, 67b, 69b, 70ab, 71b, 72a, 78b, 83b, 86a, 122a, 124b, 128a, 129ab, 133b, 139b, 142b, 148ab, 150a River, Ohio, 28a River, Oneida, 49b
River, Oswego, 49b
River, Ottawa, 22b, 23a, 29 ill.
River Road, 64b, 65a
River, St. Lawrence, 4a, 16a
"Roaring Twenties," the, 101a, 103b, 105a
Roberts Chemical Company, 135b
Roberts, Isaiah I., 135b Robinson, Governor Lucius, 150b
Robinson, Joel R., 147a
Rochester, New York, 2b, 4a, 28b, 34a, 82b, 115a
Rochester, Lockport, and Niagara Falls Railroad, 77b
Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of Ohio, John D., 101b
Roebling, John, 148b, 149a q.
Roebling's bridge, 148b
Rome Beauty, the (apple), 117a Roessler, Franz, 133a
Roger's blacksmith shop, George, 74a
Rome, 49b
Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad, 78b Rooseboom, Johannes, 33ab
Rooseboom's-expedition, 33a; traders, 33a
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 105ab
Roosevelt, Governor Theodore, 135a
Roosevelt, President (F. D.), 106b, 107b
Roosevelt-President Theodore, 101ab; Vice-Presi- dent Theodore, 100b
Roosevelt's candidate, 102a
Rose, Elias, 77a Rose, Jarius, 77b, 115b
Rotary Club members, 105a Rotary Community Clothing Bureau, 105a
Rouen, 28a Route 5, 50a Royalton, 115a, 117a Russia, 104a, 108a, 110a Russian leader Nikita Krushchev, 110a
Ryan, Police Chief, 94b, 95a
Saar region, the, 106a St. Ignace-at, 23b, 24a; people of, 23b; to, 23b; town of, 23b St. Joseph-at, 19a; town of, 23ab St. Joseph's population, 23a
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St. Lawrence River, 4a, 16a, 21b, 22b, 23a, 24b, 28ab, 30ab, 34b, 68a, 86b St. Lawrence Seaway, 62b, 108b St. Lawrence settlements, 34a St. Lawrence valley, 4a St. Louis, 23b, 24a St. Louis Hall, 94b St. Marie, town of, 23b St. Mihiel, 103a
Salem, Massachusetts, 72b Salisbury, Connecticut, 67b
Saltville, Virginia, 132b Sam's preparations, 145b
San Jose scale, 116b
Sanborn, 7a, 78b, 115b
Sanborn's-first industries, 77b; flourmill, 77b; history, 77b Sanborn, Lee R., 77b Sanborn Milling Company, 77b
Sanborn, Reverend E. C., 77b
Saturday-afternoon, like a, 82a ; morning, 94b; mornings, 55a ; nights, 125a; on, 64b
Saturdays, on, 53a, 64b, 128a
Schenectady-company, the, 41a; from, 33a Schlosser, Captain, 67a
Schlosser, Fort, 40b f., 41b, 46a, 49b, 57b, 58a, 60a, 67ab, 68ab, 69ab, 72a, 86a, 115b, 121a Schoellkopf, Jacob, 125b, 126a; dreams of, 142b
Schoellkopf-enterprise, another, 126a; station, the, 126b ill. Schoellkopf's power development, 126a School for Gymnasts, 145b Scotsman, 33b
Scott, Colonel Winfield, 57a, 60b
Secretary of the Interior, 92a; Albert Fall, 104a Seneca-ambush at Devil's Hole, 41a; an adopted, 35b; and Mohawk warriors, a thousand, 23b; chief, no, 37a; chief, the, 144b; chiefs, 25a, 47a; country, 34a; hatchets, 23a; land, 41a; one, 32a ; orator, 47b; portage carriers, 41a; traders, 5a; village, every, 47a; warriors, 47b; woman, a, 32a Seneca Chief, the, 82b, 121b
Seneca Lake, 46a
Senecas-Denonville's war with the, 34a; the, 4b, 7a, 12b, 23ab, 25a, 28ab, 32a, 34ab, 35ab, 37a, 40b,' 41ab, 46b, 47a, 49a, 65a; the grateful, 41b; the orchards of the, 115b; two hundred, 25a Separate Company of North Tonawanda, 25th, 95a Separate Company, 42d, 98a
September, 84a, 99a; day, 6a; 11, 1826, 82b; 11 re- port of the President (McKinley), 100a; 12, 82b; 13, 100b; 14, 100b; 14 and 19, 85a; 1763, 41a; 1797, 49b; 1897, 70a; of 1939, 106a
Serrell, Edward, 148b Seven Years' War, 37b Shearer's store, Sextus, 76a Sheldon Hotel, 95ab Sheldon, Stephen, 62a Sheldon's sawmill, 62b
Shenandoah Valley, 89b Shorthorn Herd Book, Allen, 115a Shorthorn, the, 114b Shredded Wheat, 134b "Shredded Wheat Company, The," 134b Signora Maria Spelterini, 146a Sir Robert Peel, the, 86b Sir William Johnson, 38a, 39b, 40b, 41b Six Nations, 12b Smith, Big, 70a Smith, Dr. Isaac, 73b Smith, Henry P., 122a Smith, Willard, 66a
Socialist candidate for mayor of Niagara Falls, 104a
Somerset, 115a; village, 61a
South, peace with the, 89a
South America, 98b; into, 10a
South Carolina, 89a
South Junior High School, 104ab
South Pekin Station, 77b
Southern-army, 89b; cannons, 89a; defenders, 90a; fire, 90ab; force, 89b; forces, 90a; lines, 90a; surrender at Appomattox, 90b; troops, 89b Spanish-American War, 98b
Spanish flavor, 98b
Spaulding, Lyman A., 122b, 123a
Spaulding's property, 123a
Speer Carbon Company, 138b
Spelterini, Signora Maria, 146a
Spencer House, the, 125b
Spencer, John, 85a
Spencer's-investigations, 83a; voice, 83a
Springfield, Illinois, 91a
Spy, The, Cooper, 65b
Squaw Island, 32a
Standard Oil Company of Ohio, 101b
Stanley, the (plum), 118b
Starking, the (apple), 117a
Stars and Stripes, 42b
State Commissioner Donovan, 95b
Stauffer Chemical, 138b
Stedman house, 68b
Stedman, John, 40b, 41a, 65a, 67a, 115b, 121a Stedman's-house, 121a; party, 41a
Stevenson, Adlai, 108b Strouse, Adam, 73a
Suky (cow), 58b
Sullivan-Clinton campaign, the, 115b Sullivan, General John, 42ab, 46a Sumter, Fort, 89a Sunday, 95b; June 12, 95a
Sundays, on, 53a Suspension Bridge, 67a, 93ab, 97, 122b
Susquehanna-attack, 25a; Indians, 7a, 25a; tribe, 16a
Susquehanna River, 7a, 46a Swain family, the, 64b Swain, Isaac, 64a Swain's-family, 64b; son, 64b
Swain, William, 64b Swedish traders, 25a Sweeney, James, 72b Sweeney, John, 72b Syracuse, 50a
Taft, William Howard, 102a
Taylor, Annie Edson, 146b Temple of Music, 99b
Texas-growers, 118b; Panhandle, 118b
Thanksgiving, 103a
Thirties-depression of the, 105b; the, 106b; the depression, 101a
Thomas, David, 73b
Thomas, Dr. Ambrose, 69b
Thomas's house, 69b
Three-Sister Islands, 6b
"Three Sisters," 15a
Tilden, Samuel, 92b, 93a
Tonawanda Creek, 7a, 60a, 70b, 72ab, 73a, 74b, 121b; reservation, 49a
Tonawanda Island, 72a, 73a
Tonawanda, Lake, 4a
Tonawanda, North, 70b, 71ab, 72ab, 73a
Tonawanda Swamp, 46b, 50a
Tonawanda, Town of, 73a
Tonawandas, the, 121b, 122a
Tonty, Henry, 30ab, 32ab
Toronto, Canada, 61b
Tory army, 42a
Travels, Bartram, 115b
Treaty of Big Tree, 8a, 47b, 49b
Treaty of Ghent, 60b
Tree of Peace at Onandaga, 12b
Trott, James F., 87a, 104b
Trott Vocational High School, 104b
Truman, President, 107b, 108a
Tucker, Morris, 73b
Tuesday, 95b
Turner, Orsamus, 74b, 83ab
Turner's lips, 83a
Tuscarora Indians, 141b; friendly, 60a
Tuscarora Reservation, the, 141b
Tuscarora village, every, 47a
Tuscaroras, the, 12b, 46b, 47a, 49a, 60a
Twelve Mile Creek, 7a, 61b, 62a, 77b
Twenties, the, 104ab, 108a, 110a
Twentieth Century, 101a
Underground Railroad, 87b, 88a; conductors, 90a
Union-Armies, 92a; Army, the, 125a; assault, 90a ; fort in Charleston harbor, 89a; line, the, 90a; loss, after each, 91a; soldiers, 90a; the, 89a, 91a; troops, 90ab
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, 138a Union Carbide Company, 132a, 138a Union Carbide Corporation, 132a, 138a Union Carbide Metals, 138b
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Union Jack, 39b, 40a Union, Lockport, 91ab "Union, The," 147a United Office Building, 104b
United States, the-agents, 107a; Army, 55ab, 56b; Army regulars, 55b, 56b; eastern, 86b; fleet, 57b; Government, 47b, 54a, 86b, 91a, 105b, 140b; growth of, 101a; money, 84b; northern, 2b; of America, 37b; President of (Theodore Roose- velt), 100b; regulars, 72a; the, 10a, 42b, 49a, 60ab, 66a, 67b, 91a, 95b, 102ab, 103ab, 104b, 106ab, 107b, 110a, 118b, 121a, 123b, 130b, 134a, 135a, 140ab, 141a; war with the, 54a; warships, 106a
Upper Great Lakes, 30a, 32a, 33a Upper Lake Region, 32b Upper Landing, 35b, 71b Upper Niagara River, 67a Upper Town, 123a Utica, 50a
Valley, Genesee, 67b Valley, Mohawk, 12b, 41b Valley, Ohio, 27b Valley, Shenandoah, 89b Van Horn, Burt, 61b
Van Horn family, 61b Van Horn, James, 61a
Van Horn mill, 61b
Van Horn's Mills, 60a, 61b
Van Rensselaer, General Stephen, 56a, 62a
Van Rensselaer's-army, 56ab; campaign in Niagara County, 54b; officers, 58a; position, 56b; prepa- rations, 56a ; soldiers, 56b
Van Slyke, Garrett, 71a Van Slyke's-at, 71b; tavern, 71b Vanadium Company, the, 138a Vandervoort, William,
Vermont, 50a Versailles peace treaty, 106a Veteran's Bureau, 104a Veteran's Day, 103a Vice-President Nixon, 110a Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, 100b Virginia, 89ab, 90b, 132n Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, 89b
Wadsworth, James, 101b Wadsworth's-connection with the meat packing trust, 101b; friends, 102a
Wake, 106b Walsh, Homan, 147a War Department, the, 140b War Hawks, 54ab
War Hawks' demand for freedom of the seas, 54a
War of 1812, 53ab, 54a, 61b, 62b, 64b, 66a, 69a, 71b, 72ab, 89a, 90b, 121b; settlement of the, 121b War, Seven Years', 37b Ware, Justin, 89a
Warner, Dr., 62b Warner, Gad, 75ab
Washington, D. C., 49a., 54a, 89a, 100b, 101b, 102a, 105b
Washington, George, 37b, 42ab, 47b, 49a; another, 85b
Washington House, 75a, 82a
Wealthy, the (apple), 117a
Weaver, James B., 95b
Webb, Captain Matthew, 146a
Webster, Daniel, 73a
Webster, Fletcher, 73a Webster Street, 73a
Wednesday-June 15, 95b; September 4, 99a
West, the-82b; French empire in, 39b; French forts in, 40a; from, 32b; fur trade of, 28b; his French captains in, 34a; in, 28b, 32a; Indian raids in, 60b; key to, 37a; the, 40a, 108a, 120a
Western New York, 47ab, 49ab, 56b, 66a, 67b, 68a, 77b, 83b, 85a, 86b, 90b
Westerners, 54a
Westinghouse, George, 127b
Wheatfield, 115a; Town of, 73a
Whig-choice, 88a; party, 88ab
Whigs, 88a Whirlpool Bridge, the, 150a
Whirlpool Park, 104a
Whirlpool Rapids, 146a
Whirpool station, 99a
Whirlpool, the, 69b
Whiskey Ring, 92a White House, the, 82b
White, Stephen, 72b Whitehead, Mayor, 103a
Whitney, General Parkhurst, 69a, 87a, 89a Whitney's hotels, 69b
Wilbur, Charles, 73a Willard, Maud, 146a
William C. Bouck, the, 82a
Williams, Edward T., 101b, 102a
Willson, Thomas L., 132a
Wilson, 7a, 88a, 115a, 122b; education in, 62b; families in, 62b; farmers, 61a f .; future of, 62b; village of, 61b; west of, 64a Wilson's-growth, 62b; harbor, 61b
Wilson Collegiate Institute, 62b
Wilson High School, 62b
Wilson, Luther, 62b; family, 62b
Wilson's shipping industry, 62b
Wilson, President, 102b, 103ab Wilson, Reuben, 61b, 62ab
Wilson's-boat, 62a; son, 62b
Wilson Union School, 62b Wilson, Woodrow, 102a
Wilson, Woodrow, Democrat, 102a Wilson's election, after, 102a Wilsons, the, 62ab Winchester Arms Corporation, 133a Windsor, the (cherry), 118b
Wisconsin, 32a
Wood Creek, 49b
Woodhull, Caleb, 124ab Woodland Indians, 10b
Woodward, J. S., 116b Woodward, Deanne, 146b
Woodward, Roger, 146b
Wool, Captain, 56b, 57a Wool's-guess, 56b; regulars, 57b
Worcester, Massachusetts, 134b
Works Progress Administration, the, 105b
World War I, 70a, 101a, 107a, 105b, 106a, 118a, 133a, 135ab, 139b, 140b; sabotage of, 107a
World War II, 67a, 78b, 101a, 105b, 129b
W. P. A., the, 105b Wright Brothers, the, 146b
Wright, George, 93b Wright Park, 104a Wright's Corners, 82b
Wurlitzer, 122a
"Yankee Doodle," 72a Yellow Delicious, the (apple), 117a Young, Albert, 104a Young, John, 64a
Young's store, 64ab
Youngstown, 58ab, 64ab, 65a, 122b
Youngstown's streets, 64b Youngstown-Lockport Road, 64b
Youngstown Yacht Club, 64b
Zimmerman note, the, 102b
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