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THE LOCKPORT JOURNAL.
What is now The Lockport Journal was really founded on May 1, 1827, when M. Cadwallader began to publish The Niagara Courier. After a short time the paper was bought by George Reese, who in a short time sold out to the late Hon. T. T. Flagler. Under his ownership and editorial dircet:on the paper became a success. In 1843 the paper was bought by Crandall & Brigham and Mr. Brigham at once transferred his interest to David S. Crandall, who continued the publication of the paper. Up to this time the paper had been issued as a weekly and it was so con- tinued until 1847, when it was issued as a daily, the first one to be ¿sued regularly in the Village of Lockport It, and its successors, has been continuously issued, as a daily, ever since that time. In 1851 the Courier was bought by C. L. Skeels and John Williams.
Moved by the apparent success of The Courier, Robert H. Stevens began in 1846, the publication of a weekly paper. The Niagara Cataract, but he soon disposed of it to Humph- rey & Fox who were in turn succeeded by Charles J. Fox. Fox continued to publish the paper until 1851, when the late Moses Richardson, who had been editorially associated with The Courier, bought it with the intention of publishing it as
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PUBLISHERS OF THE LOCKPORT JOURNAL, 1851-1902.
WILLARD A. COBB.
EUGENE B, FLETCHER,
MOSES C. RICHARDSON. GEORGE A. TALBOTT.
JOSEPH A. WARD,
FREDERICK F. PURDY.
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EMPLOYEES OF THE LOCKPORT JOURNAL.
1-ELMER E. POOLE 2-LEE E. GOODING 3-MRS. DORA E. MILLARD 4-JESSE L. GREENMAN 5- GEORGE S. GOODING 6-GROVER MCGOWAN 6a-WILLIAM H. STAATS 7-A. STEWART GOODING 8-WILLIAM B. GOODING 9-MISS EMMA MCCARTHY 10-ELLSWORTH P. OSTRANDER 11-GEORGE M. CLAIR 12-MICHAEL I. MORAN 13-HENRY M. SEYMOUR 14-BURT J. GREEN
15-E. GEORGE LINDSTROM 16-O. M. VAN BUREN 17-HARRY F. STARKWEATHER 18-CASSIMER DENEAU 19-MIŞŞ MAR- GARET GUSHEN ___ 20-MISS GRACE GLASSFORD,
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a Free Soil paper. He added materially to the equipment and began to publish a paper known as The Lockport Daily Journal. In the following year he interested Cornelius Underwood, a practical printer, in the enterprise, but Under- wood soon became discouraged and retired. Richardson held on and had so far succeeded in his efforts to put the paper on a paying basis that in 1853 he brought the first power press to the village.
Then came a disaster which would have marked the de- feat of many men. It was the fire of November, 1854, the disaster which is yet known among the older inhabitants of the city as the "Great Fire." Richardson's plant was destroyed. He was not to be so quickly defeated, how- ever, and he at once obtained new material and went on printing his paper. He eventually succeeded in putting The Journal upon such a firm business and editorial foundation that the owner of the Courier, John G. Freeman, entered into partnership with him and the papers, which had become practically of the same political complexion, were united as The Courier and Journal. This was now a daily and in ad- dition the publishers issued a weekly styled The Niagara Intelligencer. This soon became the Niagara Journal.
In 1861 Mr. Freeman sold out his interest to A. Holly and he in turn soon disposed of it to James W. Barker, when the paper became known as The Lockport Journal. Again disaster overtook the plant, for on May 3, 1863, the building in which the paper was published, was struck by lightning and was burned, the loss to the publishers being severe.
After this incident the lot where the present Journal Building stands was bought and preparations were begun for building. Barker sold out his interest in 1864, it being purchased by Mr. Richardson, who continued to publish the paper while he was preparing for the construction of the building in which The Journal is today published. This building was finished in 1869. In the year following Joseph A. Ward bought a quarter interest and became the business manager. In 1872 the late Hon. Willard A. Cobb, who had been proprietor and editor of The Dunkirk Journal, sold out his plant and business and came to Lockport and bought a quarter interest in The Lockport Journal and became Associate Editor. Mr. Richardson retained a half interest in the firm until 1880, when he sold out to Ward & Cobb, who continued to publish the paper until the death of the latter in May, 1900. Mr. Ward continued the publication of The Journal until May II, when W. M. Ward purchased the interest formerly owned by Mr. Cobb, and the firm be- came Ward & Son.
On July 29, 1901, The Journel passed into the hands of Fletcher & Purdy, Eugene B. Fletcher, of Chicago, and Frederick F. Purdy, of New York. On August I, of the present year, George A. Talbott, of Urbana, Ohio, became associated with Messrs. Fletcher & Purdy, under the firm name of Fletcher, Purdy & Talbott.
NIAGARA FALLS CATARACT-JOURNAL AND NIAGARA FALLS
JOURNAL.
The Daily Cataract-Journal has been published as such since April 13, 1900. The Daily Cataract was established April 27, 1892, and is the oldest daily paper at Niagara Falls. The founder was O. W. Cutler and later his brother- in-law, F. P. Tallant, was interested with him in the business. Still later J. H. T. Pearson became half owner and editor, The Cataract Publishing Company having been organized and continued as such until April 13, 1900. : :
There is also published from the same office the Ni-
agara Falls Journal, a weekly newspaper, which has had a long and important career in the City of Niagara Falls and the old Village of Suspension Bridge.
In October, 1855, George H. Hackstaff established in that village what is now the Niagara Falls Journal, but what was then called the Niagara City Herald. The next year he sold the paper to his brother, N. F. Hackstaff, who con- ducted it for a time and then sold it to Charles B. Gaskill,
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who started the first flour mill in Niagara Falls, and after- wards became one of the most influential business men of the town.
A. G. Liscom became the owner of the paper in 1870 and changed its name to The Suspension Bridge Journal.
In 1873 John Ransom acquired the property and con- ducted the paper until November, 1879, when it was purchased by Hon. Solon S. Pomroy. Mr. Pomroy in March, 1892, when the two villages were incorporated into the City of Niagara Falls, changed the name to The Niagara Falls Journal. He continued to publish the paper until June 1, 1897, a period of seventeen years, when he sold the paper to Edward T. Williams, who became the editor and proprietor. Mr. Williams has been the editor of the paper ever since, but on June 15, 1899, George H. Courter, form- erly Business Manager of The Buffalo Courier, became as- sociated with him and The Journal Publishing Company was incorporated with Mr. Williams as President and Mr. Courter as Secretary, Treasurer and Business Manager. July 12, 1899, The Daily Journal was established by these gentlemen and published in connection with the Weekly Journal. On April 13, 1900, The Daily Cataract was purchased by the owners of The Journal and consolidated with it and since the daily paper has been called The Cataract-Journal, while the name of the weekly is the same as before. The name of the corporation was changed to The Cataract Journal Company with the same officers as above.
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NIAGARA FALLS GAZETTE.
The Niagara Falls Gazette was first issued May 17. 1854, by B. F. Sleeper and William Pool. It was published as a daily during the summers of 1859 and 1860.
Under the editorship of William Pool it became a widely-known and influential paper. At the end of 1879 Mr. Pool sold the Gazette to Peter A. Porter. In 1895 The Gazette Publishing Company was formed to acquire it and run it as a daily.
The Gazette is Republican in its principles but main- tains an independence that adds greatly to its influence. It occupies a three story building at No. 351 Third Street, Ni- agara Falls, the building having been enlarged to meet its growth.
The present editor of the Gazette is Eugene R. White, its Business Manager being Alanson C. Deuel.
THE NIAGARA COURIER.
After publishing The Niagara Falls Gazette from May 17, 1854, to the end of December, 1879, William Pool, its veteran editor, sold out the paper to Peter A. Porter. In 1884, Mr. Pool founded The Niagara Courier, which has
WILLIAM POOL.
since been issued weekly, with his son, R. M. Pool, as local editor.
Mr. Pool was born at Dickersonville, Niagara County, of pioneer parents, on May 15, 1825. He was the first Postmaster there previous to moving to Lockport in 1852, where he was employed in the business and editorial de- partments of The Niagara Courier there under the late Captain G. L. Skeels.
He removed to Niagara Falls to be one of the found- ers of The Niagara Falls Gazette in 1854. He became sole proprietor in 1864 and sold out to Peter A. Porter at the end of 1879.
Mr. Pool was member of Assembly in 1867 and Post- master at Niagara Falls from 1867 for eight years there- after. He was a delegate from his Senatorial District to the State Constitutional Convention in 1894.
IN THE MIST.
WV. E. Tuttle, publisher of "In The Mist" was a former City Editor of The Lockport Journal, Managing Editor of Niagara Falls Cataract and Associate Editor of the Niagara Falls Gazette; now publisher and proprietor of the resort
paper "In The Mist," at Niagara Falls, promoter of steam- boat companies and trolley lines, holding responsible posi-
WILLIAM E. TUTTLE.
tions with them; represents Associated Press and Gen- eral Manager of the Press News Association.
THE TONAWANDA NEWS.
The Tonawanda Commercial was the first newspaper published in the Tonawandas. It was established in 1849. was issued weekly and lived but a short time.
In 1852 The Niagara River Pilot, a seven colmn weekly, was founded by Silas S. Packard and Henry Foxlonger, with the former as editor and the latter as printer. The money for starting the paper was furnished principally by the Cleveland Commercial Company, who constructed a large grain elevator here about that time. Foxlonger withdrew in about six months and Mr. Packard continued the publica- tion of the paper for a short time when he associated with him. S. O. Hayward, who soon became sole proprietor of The Pilot and continued its publication until 1861. He
COMUS B. PENNEY.
then disposed of his interest to T. W. Maxon, who con- tinued the publication for about three months. Mr. Hay-
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ward resumed the management of the Pilot, changing the name to The Niagara Frontier, which name was in turn changed to The Lake Shore Enterprise. After a year or two of publication under this title the paper was continued under the name of The Tonawanda Enterprise and existed up until a few years ago.
J. Densmore started The Tonawanda Herald in the Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, in 1875. He was burned out at the end of one year. Thomas M. Chapman took hold of what was left of The Herald plant and began its publication anew, associating with him the late George M. Warren. After a lapse of about a year Chapman became
HARLAN W. BRUSH.
sole proprietor and continued to publish The Herald as its editor until he disposed of half his interest to Thomas E. Warner. The firm name was Chapman & Warner and con- tinued so until 1896, when Mr. Warner disposed of his in- terest to Mr. Chapman and began the publication of The Tonawanda Argus, associating with him Frank P. Hulette, of The Arcade Leader. In 1900 Mr. Chapman sold The Herald to the News Publishing Company who continued its publication in conjunction with The Daily News. In 1901 Warner & Hulette suspended publication of The Argus and the plant was bought by The News Publishing Company.
The Daily News was established in 1880 by George S. Hobbie. It was a four-page affair, the pages being seven by eleven inches. As the town grew The Daily News grew, and while it changed hands a number of times from the date of its birth to the present time, it has for a number of years been the leading paper of the Tonawandas. The present proprietors, The News Publishing Company, purchased The Daily News plant from M. Jer. Dillon in 1894 and since then it has pushed steadily forward, having bought up the Daily Argus and the Weekly Herald. The Daily News and The Weekly Herald are published in their own building and are bright, newsy up-to-date publi- cations. Harlan W. Brush, United States Consul at Ni- agara Falls, Ont., is President of The News Publishing Company. Comus B. Penney is Treasurer and Manager.
F THE WILSON STAR.
The Star, a bright, weekly newspaper, was started in Wilson by James Betts in October, 1878, who in November in the same year, sold it to Charles E. Honeywell, the present editor and proprietor.
Mr. Honeywell was born in Toronto, Canada, March 2, 1853, and is a son of John Honeywell. His father was a banker and his grandfather a Colonel in the English army. His maternal great grandfather was John Stedman, the first surveyor in Niagara County, and acquired Goat Island at the Falls from the Indians. Editor Honeywell was edu- cated in his native city and learned the trade of a printer there on the old Toronto Leader. He was a journeyman for several years and came to this country in 1870 and worked on the Cincinnati dailies and on The Buffalo Courier. In 1878 he came to Wilson and purchased The Star, of which he has since been publisher and editor. Mr.
CHARLES E. HONEYWELL.
Honeywell is proud of having one of the best equipped printing offices in Niagara County and has placed his paper among the leaders of Niagara County journals. He is a member of Ontario Lodge No. 376, F. and A. M. and other organizations. March 3, 1879, he married Sarah, daughter of Charles Myers of Wilson.
YOUNGSTOWN NEWS. The birth of The Youngstown News occurred March
G. OLIVER P. FRICK. 4, 1881, the day that James A. Garfield was inaugurated
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President of the United States, and was the origin of Nelson D. Haskell, then a promising young business man of Youngstown, and later junior member of the firm of B. D. Davis & Company, general merchants. Mr. Haskell was afterward elected member of the State Legislature from the Second Niagara District, and today is a practicing physi- cian in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The News first appeared under the name of the Niagara County News, and continued so until the year 1887, when it was changed to its present name. It was first a five column, four page paper, and was published in that form for nearly two years when another column was added.
In 1888 it was again enlarged to six pages, and at this time an extra edition entitled The Niagara News was published for its many readers at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Ontario, and along the entire Canadian border. Thus it appeared until January, 1889, when the newspaper 1.lant and job printing outfit passed into the hands of the present proprietor, G. Oliver P. Frick.
Although a young man, less than eighteen years of age, Mr. Frick was a journeyman printer, having worked at the trade since he was twelve years of age, and he took charge of the mechanical part of the office, while his father, Joseph A. Frick, acted as Manager of the paper. Under their direction The News was again enlarged in 1890 to an eight page paper and has continued in this form up to the present time.
In 1894 Joseph A. Frick severed his connection with The News, and the entire management was assumed by G. Oliver P. Frick.
Recently Mr. Frick was appointed United States Im- migrant Inspector at the Port of Toronto, Ontario.
THE MIDDLEPORT HERALD.
The Middleport Herald was established in 1883; prior to that date the paper was known as The Mail, and published in turn by Clark, Squires, Kuck, Cooper, Pike and others. In 1895 The Herald was sold by John E. Cooper to John W. Hinchey, who at once set about placing it on a paying basis, and at the same time infusing new life and new ideas.
JOHN W. HINCHEY.
Mr. Hinchey will issue, beginning in August, this year, 1902, The Daily Herald, in connection with the weekly, which will fully chronicle the daily happenings of that lively and prosperous village.
WICKER COTTAGE- OLCOTT BEACH,
Autobiographies.
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NDER the respective towns and cities in which they live will be found appropriate references to 3 6 the lives and services of many whose portraits adorn this book. A concise chronology of many that it has not been convenient in include in the narrative is presented hereinafter, arranged in alphabetical order, making it convenient for reading aud reference.
Ackerson, Charles F .- Born 1837, in Orleans County. Educated at Yates Academy. Taught school for sixteen winters. Married Mary J. Nellist, of Somerset, 1864. Re- sided in Somerset on a farm until six years ago, since which time he has lived in Hartland. Served several years as Supervisor. Three children: Fred M., lawyer, of Niagara Falls, Assistant District Attorney; George D., farmer, Hartland ; Lovina M., Student, State Normal School, Brock- port.
Allen, Harvey E .- Born in Monroe County, 1841. Came to Town of Hartland in spring of 1842 with his parents. Has lived in Town of Somerset and Rovalton as well as Hartland. Served as Collector of Town of Somerset. Now Highway Commissioner of Town of Hartland.
Allen, Henry Terrill-Born in Town of Cambria, 1826. Moved to Niagara Falls in 1849. Resided there since. He and his two sons, Arthur and Matthew, have done much to build up the city. Samuel Allen, an ancestor, came from England in early part of Seventeenth Century and joined the Dorchester Colony at East Windsor, Vermont. He had many active and influential descendants, including General Ethan Allen. Amasa Allen, grandfather of Henry T., moved with his family to Genesee County in 1810. Horatio, his son, father of the subject of this sketch, at the age of twenty-two, with his young wife, aged eighteen, Hannah Terrill Allen, moved to Town of Cambria in 1822.
Arlington, Robert-Born 1852 in Cambridgeshire, England. Came to America in 1870 and to Lockport in 1873, when he moved to Somerset and lived there until 1900, where he was Constable for seventeen years. A public auctioneer. Deputy Sheriff since January, 1901.
Babcock, Isaac H .- Born Rensselaerville, Albany County, 1830. In 1834 removed with his parents to the Lake Road, Somerset, where they purchased a farm. Re- mained there until thirty years old. In 1860 moved to Lockport and engaged in fruit farming, and in nursery business. Resided in Town of Lockport, near city line, since that time. Has served as Supervisor two years. Was member of Assembly from First District of Niagara County in 1872 and 1873. His father, Hon. J. W. Babcock, repre- sented the Second Assembly District in the same body just twenty years before. Is President of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Lockport and President of American District Steam Company.
Bayliss, John R .- Born Town of Lockport, 1844. A veteran of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. Served in the Forty-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry. Appointed Court Crier in 1890 and is still serving under the civil service. Visitor for Home for the Friendless.
Behe, Stacy D .- Born January 30, 1874, Town of Lock- port. Removed to Royalton in 1879, attended the dis-
trict school and later Lockport Union School; graduated in 1896. Studied law with Burt G. Stockwell, George W. Pound and Chauncey E. Dunkleberger. Admitted to the bar July 19, 1900.
Biggins, J. G .- Born in Town of Cambria. Now resi- dent in Town of Wilson. Son of Jedediah Biggins, who en- listed from Newfane in 1862 in Twenty-third Battery, N. Y. L. A. Mustered out July 24, 1866.
Blackley, Dr. Carl A .- Born in Lockport, 1869. Grad- uated from Lockport Union School. Studied medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, graduated there and took a postgraduate course at the Hahnemann Hospital. Returned to Lockport and established himself in the practice of medicine. Is now City Physician of Lockport.
Bradley, Artemas A .- Born 1857 on old Carlton home- stead, Town of Lockport, in possession of family nearly a century. Grandson of David Carlton, pioneer, and son of Alanson and Nancy Carlton Bradley. Graduated from Lockport Union School, 1879. Admitted to practice in State Courts 1883, and in United States Courts in 1899. In 1890 formed a partnership with Hon. John A. Merritt, which continues. Now serving third term on Board of Education ; second term as President of Alumni of Lockport Union School; first term as Recording Secretary and member of Executive Committee of State Association of School Boards. A Republican and a frequent public speaker in political cam- paigns. At present Police Justice. Appointed December, 190I.
Bredell, Frank M .- Born, Lockport, 1869. Common school education. Engaged in shirt factory for several years. Formed partnership with J. C. Harrington in gen- eral insurance business. Became Manager for Ontario Baking Company, January 1, 1902. Clerk in Assembly, 1895. Now Supervisor from Fifth Ward, serving second term. Republican.
Brown, Albert F .- Born in Orleans County, 1818. At- tended Canandaigua Academy, worked on a farni and en- tered Farmers' Bank of Orleans County as teller. After- ward taught school in Louisana. Returning home, he was elected County Superintendent of the Poor. Came to Lock- port in 1860. Five years Treasurer of Holly Water Works Company. Conducted a paper and pulp mill, now part of plant of the Fiber Works. Made two trips abroad. Elected Mayor of Lockport on Democratic ticket in 1870. Can- didate of Prohibition party for Lieutenant Governor in 1876. Died September 25, 1893, survived by one daughter, Mrs. Jesse Peterson.
Buddenhagen, Henry-Born in Germany, 1828. Came to America, 1856 and to Lockport 1863, where he es -- tableshed a merchant tailoring establishment. Has been in the same location twenty-eight years. Is a member of Red Jacket Lodge, F. and A. M .; Cataract Lodge, I. O. O. F .; John Hodge Lodge. A. O. U. W., and of the German Luth- eran Church, corner Locust and South Streets.
Buchanan, William L .- Born in Lockport 1872. At- tended public schools there and graduated at Union School. With American Express Company for six years. Alder
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man from 1898 to 1901 inclusive. Clerk in the Senate Chamber at Albany in 1901. Appointed Special Agent of the Treasury Department in 1901.
Butler, Mighells B .- Born in Phelps, Ontario County, 1856. Attended De Veaux College from September, 1868- 76, when he entered class of '80 at Harvard, was there a year and afterward an instructor at De Veaux for two years. He then studied medicine in Geneva and New York City, grad- uated in 1881, practiced in Geneva, went into business at Ithaca, went to Suspension Bridge in 1884 and entered the grocery firm of M. V. Pearson & Company. Been in same business ever since, conducting his own business and now that of Butler Grocery Company, organized in logo. Was Second Lieutenant of Forty-second Separate Company in 1885, Captain until May, 1098, when he was promoted to Major of Third New York Volunteer Infantry in Spanish- American war and was mustered out December 10, 1098. In same month commissioned Major First Batalion, N. U. S. N. Y., with headquarters at Niagara Falls. Liected Mayor in 1893 and in 1900. Member Board of Education i Idy2. Member Board of Public Works four years, aside from his terms of ex-officio membership as Mayor. Is a Mason, an Elk and member of Spanish American war Vet- erans' Association.
Campbell, William W .- Born in Royalton, 1870. In 1874 went to Connecticut, living there until I891, when he went to Boston. Came to Lockport, 1894. Studied law and was admitted to the bar. Was Surrogate's Clerk for several years until 1900. Is a prominent member of sev- eral fraternal organizations. Is now Assessors' Clerk.
Canavan, C. 1 .- Born in Niagara Falls, 1050. En- tered service of New York Central at age of sixteen, and rose to position of yard master at the Falls. Resigned atter twenty years' service and was elected Treasurer of Village of Suspension Bridge, which office he retained until incor- poration of Niagara Falls as a city, when he was chosen to hil his present position as City Treasurer. He has served in the same position ever since, in the spring of 1902 being reelected.
Carr, Frank C .- Born in Lockport, 1863. His parents migrated from Germany in 1845, coming to Lockport on a packet via. Erie Canal. Attended public and Union School. Has been engaged in the mercantile and hotel business and is now proprietor of the Knickerbocker Cafe on Cottage Street. Has been a member of Republican City Committee, was Alderman from the Fourth Ward in 1891- 92 and was elected Supervisor in 1901.
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