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Steamer LeGrand DeGraff, Weston Transit Co., photo s(c.1908).jpg
Gemini AI Overview:
The LeGrand S. DeGraff was a massive steel bulk freighter built for the Great Lakes merchant trade in 1907. Commissioned by the…
The Timber Trade, article, transcribed (Buffalo Courier & Republic, 1869-07-23_002).pdf
The Timber Trade of Tonawanda. Correspondence of the Courier.TONAWANDA, July 20, 1869.EDITORS COURIER:—In “Exavier's” article published in the…
John McGraw, obituary (1877-05-05).jpg
A DISTINGUISHED PHILANTHROPIST and a good citizen died at Ithaca yesterday. John McGraw was respected for his business ability, but he made an…
Tonawanda Barge Line (A. Weston & Co.).htm
Photos: (1) The steamer-barge A. Weston. (2 & 3) The schooner-barge A. Stewart, seen in its later years as the Keuka (4) The hold of the Keuka…
Turner v. Weston case file (c.1886-02).pdf
An AI-generated summary of the Turner v. Weston. A judgment of about $70K was entered against Weston in 1886, though there would be appeals. The case…
The Weston Furnace Company, Manistique, Michigan, photo (c 1890).jpg
"Located at the end of North Cedar Street. Note the stacks of pig iron piled in front of the building. Photo from the Leroy Fox Collection Photo…
M.H. Quick's office at the Chicago Lumbering Co. Abijah Weston portrait on wall, photo (c.1900).jpg
(from Manistique, Images of America, by M. Vonciel LeDuc)
Weston, Abijah Adams (1822-1898).per
Portrait recreated from a painting in this photo.Abijah Adams Weston was the son of James Douglas and Lela Adams Weston. Abijah married Janet MacLaren…
Ads and an essay from Canada Lumberman and Woodworker, 1906-1907.jpg
https://archive.org/details/canadianforest1907donm
John and Hannah Johnson’s lot 19 subdivision 6 area, map, overlayed on modern streets (c.1848).jpg
Before buying property from Locke in Lot 10, court testimony suggests the Johnsons lived in a cabin just north west on land they owned. Map is from an…
North Tonawanda Taverns and Working CLass Life (John S. Olszowka, Ph.D., 2017).htm
Article by John S. Olszowka, Ph.D. Subheads by NTHistory.com Oliver Street and the legend of its saloons Like most youngsters, growing up I was…
House and barn of John and Hannah Johnson according to trial testimony, AI illustration.htm
Testimony describes the Johnson place as a modest working homestead on twelve acres in the northwest corner of Great Lot 10. The land was originally…
Raymond Rowland, cabinet card photo (H. F. Wittkowsky, c1900).jpg
Later husband of J. F. Locke's second wife.
Historical jottings, War of 1812, River Cemetery, Bunker Hill, article (Tonawanda Herald c. 1880).pdf
AI Summary: Summary: Writing under the initial “L.,” a correspondent recounts the destruction along the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812, then…
Ironton Juniors football club, team photo (1914).jpg
Photograph of news clipping from the Kermit Cooper Family Collection, passed onto and held by daughter Shelley Cooper Patterson. Original source:…
Sweeney Cemetery Association Minutes (1868-1921).pdf
YEAR-BY-YEAR SUMMARY (AI): 1868 Citizens of both Tonawandas organized the Col. John Sweeney Rural Cemetery Association on February 12 and…
“Please Reply Soon”: Letters from West Prussia to the Schultz Family, 1902–1907.htm
While Herman Schultz Sr. and his brothers built lives in the Tonawandas, their widowed sister Auguste Ziesmer remained in Klein Albrechtau, West…
Ironton, article (Evening Courier & Republic, 1873-09-04).jpg
IRONTON. The Niagara River Iron Works—An Important Manufacturing Enterprise—A New Blast Furnace, a New Railroad Station; and a New…
Ironton Germans: Schultz (Schulz) Family History, partially transcribed booklet and family photos (1999).pdf
This 17-page Schultz family history was shared with North Tonawanda History by Maria De Borba-Silva, who received it from her third cousin Shelley…
Eugene de Kleist pledges organ factory as security, bond to Koehler & Wind (1897-03-08).jpg
AI SUMMARY:
On March 8, 1897, Eugene de Kleist pledged his organ factory and its lot at Sawyer’s Creek as security for a separate agreement, dated…
Eugene de Kleist property foreclosure, notice of pendency (Niagara County Supreme Court, 1898-10-17).jpg
AI SUMMARY
This notice of pendency, or lis pendens, records William Ziemendorf’s action to foreclose a mortgage granted by Eugene and Charlotte de…
Eugene de Kleist factory agreement, discharge of contract (Koehler & Wind, 1897-08-27).jpg
AI SUMMARY:
### Discharge of factory agreement — August 27, 1897
Koehler & Wind certify that de Kleist’s agreement of March 8, 1897—the security…
Village of Tonawanda, article (Buffalo Emporium and General Advertiser, 1825-05-07).pdf
Village of Ton-a-wan-da.THE subscribers offer building lots in the village of Tonawanda, Erie County, New York, for sale on very reasonable terms, to…