Outpost of empires; a short history of Niagara County, Part 26

Author: Aiken, John, 1927-
Publication date: 1961
Publisher: Phoenix, N.Y., F.E. Richards
Number of Pages: 188


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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


Index 8


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


Index 9


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


Index 10


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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