Hi Ed, I was wondering if you had a chance to look for this obit. I know it is a busy time of the year, just worried you may have lost my e-mail address. ...
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Edward Martin
edwardmartin@...
Dec 3, 2000 9:51 pm
... From: benedict <benedict@...> To: BuffaloHistory Moderator <BuffaloHistory@egroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 5:12 PM Subject:...
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christine e.m.
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Dec 3, 2000 11:28 pm
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benedict
benedict@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:37 am
Christine, The Buffalo Civil War Round Table meets the fourth Thursday of each month, except for July, August, and an early December meeting which replaces the...
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benedict
benedict@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:37 am
Mr. Martin, There were six GAR posts in Buffalo from the 1880s through 1920 plus other groups in Tonawanda and Lancaster. Only six or so vets were needed to...
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Nancy Piatkowski
swampcrone@...
Dec 4, 2000 3:06 pm
Does anyone have a copy of the Mike Vogel/etc. America's Crossroads: Buffalo's Canal Street/Dante Place that they might be willing to part with? Nancy...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 4, 2000 6:36 pm
Hi, gang, The other day I was looking at Syracuse U.'s website and found that they had a link to Dialog Architecture databases, and I was able to get in ...
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R. E. Wurtz
ae8737@...
Dec 5, 2000 7:13 pm
Does anyone have any idea when the subject creek was encased from Forest Lawn upstream to at least Bailey Ave.? Bob...
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George Richmond
grichmon@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:57 pm
... This is not definitive, but I believe it was in the 1920s. I seem to remember seeing some old newspaper photos of the work being done. George...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:59 pm
... Some time ago, I compared old maps of Buffalo to figure this out, and I vaguely recall arriving at a time period of between 1900 and 1915. I wish I could...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 5, 2000 9:11 pm
Hi, gang, While reading Wendell Berry's new book, "Life is a miracle," I came upon the following passage, which I thought I'd pass along, because I think it ...
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Karen Kolb
klkolb@...
Dec 5, 2000 9:30 pm
My father went to school 11 at Doat and Poplar and graduated from high school in 1930, so he would have been at that school ~1919-. To get from Genesee St. to...
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Nancy Piatkowski
swampcrone@...
Dec 6, 2000 1:08 am
... My mother was attending St. Matthew's grammar school when they put it "underground". This would have been late teens/early 20s as she was born in 1911. She...
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Nancy Piatkowski
swampcrone@...
Dec 6, 2000 1:12 am
... Your Dad was a little to the south of where the creek ran or as we said in the neighborhood "crick". It was between Ferry and Delevan (I lived on Wyoming...
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jack foran
jforan@...
Dec 6, 2000 11:56 am
I don't know when the creek was covered, but I do have an anecdote. You know how in the '60s, or maybe especially in the '60s, young people adopted and...
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Hill, Claudia
chill@...
Dec 6, 2000 1:31 pm
Hi, I used to live in that neighborhood - at Poplar & Walden from 1974 - 1976, & at Doat & Zelmer, from 1976 - 1992. One of my neighbors on Peace Street said...
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R. E. Wurtz
ae8737@...
Dec 6, 2000 8:15 pm
Belfer, in her book City of Lights shows the creek open as of the Pan Am Exhibition in 1901. Downstream from Park Lake it was also open and a pretty fair sized...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 6, 2000 8:38 pm
Here's a modest little website. They're looking for contributors. -C. ... research interests you and if you are ... ===== ...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 6, 2000 8:41 pm
... I just remembered that I have links to some old Buffalo maps at my genealogy page. The topo map from 1906 shows the creek above ground still. See: ...
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Karen Kolb
klkolb@...
Dec 6, 2000 11:15 pm
Nancy, It does become visible on Pine Ridge right near Villa Maria which would give it a chance to cut through the park. I have an 1884 map of Buffalo - I'kk...
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Walleyland@...
Dec 7, 2000 6:11 am
I am doing research on my husband's Nieman family. I was told Thanksgiving that my husband's great grandfather was from a part of Buffalo known as...
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Hill, Claudia
chill@...
Dec 7, 2000 1:32 pm
When I was little, I used to live in West Seneca (north of Orchard Park, south of Buffalo), & I vaguely remember reading an article a very long time ago about...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 7, 2000 1:51 pm
Close, but no cigar! <smile> The founder of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith, lived in Palmyra, NY, which is south of Rochester. You are thinking of the Ebenezer...
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Hill, Claudia
chill@...
Dec 7, 2000 1:57 pm
Yes, That sounds familiar - I was just a kid when I read the article( or articles), & I got the 2 men confused. I also went to school with a Patricia Metz when...
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SKulp12345@...
Dec 7, 2000 2:35 pm
There are still some Niemans in Orchard Park - do you have their names and addresses? Perhaps they could be of the greatest help to you. Sue Kulp, Orchard...
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Amy Sobierajski
ACSobier@...
Dec 7, 2000 2:55 pm
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Buffalo, my archaeological field school visited the West Seneca Historical Society. The Hamlet (I believe that...
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Walleyland@...
Dec 7, 2000 3:47 pm
They are probably relatives. I am in contact with the Nieman's that are my husband's aunts and uncles and cousins. My husband had not seen them in 15 years...
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Toy
tinker45@...
Dec 7, 2000 5:33 pm
RE: [BuffaloHistory] Ebenezer /Nieman Hi All Ebenezer was one of the Hamlets founded by the socity of the Ebenezers in the 1840's in the 1850's they sold all...
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Patricia M Monahan
bh829@...
Dec 7, 2000 5:50 pm
There's an excellent article in the Courier Express, Jan. 20, 1952 detailing the enclosure, which started in the early 20's and continued for 5 or 6...
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Cynthia Van Ness
bettybarcode@...
Dec 7, 2000 5:58 pm
The LDS databases can be found at http://www.familysearch.org. There are millions of names here, but keep in mind that there is no magic database of everyone...
