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Montgomery Rasch, obituary (Buffalo News, 1969-07-28)

Montgomery Rasch Dies at 39; Leader In North Tonawanda Memorial services for Montgomery Rasch, 39, businessman and community leader, will be held 11…

Sweeney Cemetery register, excerpts.jpg

Sweeney Cemetery register, dedication page.jpg

Showing John Chadwick, Jesse Locke.

Cemetery minutes trustees 1868-1878.docx

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Minutes of the Col. John Sweeney Rural Cemetery Association Organization meeting — February 12, 1868 Cemetery minutes trustees 1868-1921 To the…

Solomon G. Haven to Thomas Bolton, deed (1840-09-14).jpg

Solomon G Naven to Thomas Bulton, deed (1 of 2, 1840).jpg

Haven sells his other half of Lot 10 5 years after selling the first. The consideration was $1,000, which is much higher than the earlier Roop…

Solomon G. Haven to Henry Roop, deed (Book19 p503 1 of 2, 1835-11-19).jpg

Deeds - Haven to Bulton - 1837 - Book19 p503 1 of 2.jpg

By late 1835, Solomon G. Haven was already treating Lot 10 as property in which he held a transferable interest, and he conveyed an undivided…

William Willink et al to Solomon G. Haven, mortgage for Great Lot 10 (1836-10-27).jpg

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Mortgage;
Liber 18 of Mortgages, page 365 — the 1843 discharge.

Deed: Book 22 p 186

AI Transcription:
This Indenture, Made this twenty seventh…

Dr. Jesse Fayette Locke (1810-1861).per

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Ancestry Link 1810-07-21 in Hollis Center, Maine. 1830 Limerick School in Biddeford Me 1833 Main Temperance Society 1834 College in Maine 1834…

John Johnson household (U.S. Census, 1840).jpg

John Johnson household (U.S. Census, 1840).jpg

AI Summary:

In the 1840 census for Wheatfield, John Johnson appears as the head of a small free Black household of three. The visible age columns…

Veteran Keke shows the kids how it's done, transcribed article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-22).jpg

Veteran Keke shows the kids how it's done, article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-22).jpg

Monday, March 22, 1976

Veteran Keke Shows the Kids How

By PETER DRUMSTA

Even under the pressure of playoffs, Keke Mortson was clearly…

Trottier back on ice for Norsemen tonight, transcribed article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-24).pdf

Trottier back on ice for Norsemen tonight, article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-24).pdf

Trottier Back on Ice For Norsemen Tonight

Special to Buffalo Evening News
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 24 — Player-coach Guy Trottier, who scored seven…

Norsemen are down to their last chance, transcribed article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-25).pdf

Norsemen are down to their last chance, article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-25).pdf

Norsemen Are Down To Their Last Chance

Special to Buffalo Evening News
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 25 — The home ice advantage and improved goaltending…

Johnstown tops Buffalo, transcribed article (The Harrisburg PA Evening News, 1976-03-23).pdf

Johnstown tops Buffalo, article (The Harrisburg PA Evening News, 1976-03-23).pdf

Johnstown tops Buffalo

JOHNSTOWN (AP) — Rookie center Bruce Boudreau and veteran left wing John Gofton each scored two goals yesterday as the…

Johnstown floods Buffalo net, transcribed article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-23).pdf

Johnstown floods Buffalo net, article (The Buffalo News, 1976-03-23).pdf

Johnstown Floods Buffalo Net

Special to Buffalo Evening News
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 23
— The defending-champion Johnstown Jets re-emerged as the…

Tried to block Ely's road, article (Niagara Falls Gazette, 1895-05-14).jpg

Tried to block Ely's road, article (Niagara Falls Gazette, 1895-05-14).jpg

Transcribed by AI:

TRIED TO BLOCK ELY’S ROAD.

North Tonawanda Firemen Called Out to Prevent Track Laying.

An effort was made in North…

George Perry Smith (1842-1928).per

George Perry Smith.jpg

1897 Biography:"George P. Smith Smith, George P., one of the most enterprising men of Niagara county, was born in Lockport, June 15, 1842, a son of…

The rise and fall of the Plaza Apartments, transcribed article (Tonawanda News, 1938-07-02).jpg

The rise and fall of the Plaza Apartmets, article (Tonawanda News, 1938-07-02).jpg

Transcribed by AI

There's an old saying that everything that goes up must come down, and the truth of this statement is being borne out in the…

Norsemen team photo 2 (c.1976-02-08).jpg

Norsemen team photo 2 (c.1976).jpg

NOT IN OTHER PHOTO
30 -
11 - Gordon Nielson? (C, appears in 2/27 program, 4GP)
9 - Robbie Balyc? (NA, appears in 2/27 program, 19GP). Randy…

Pettit's Run and the Easiest Victory of the War of 1812 - Excerpted from Pioneer Period of Western New York, Chipman P. Turner, pp. 35-36 (1888).htm

A slight haze rose from the marshes on the borders of the Niagara River, but not enough to shroud the banks or the road that lay along its shore in…

Island Street Lumber Co. Mill, 11 Felton Street, photo set (Dennis Reed Jr., 2025).gal

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A business of the same name produces this ruler and gives an address of 65 Island Street.

Niagara Musical Instrument Co., mailer (1914-04-27).jpg

Niagara Musical Instrument Mfg. Co., mailer (1914).jpeg

Featuring a photo of the so-called "Midget Orchestra"

Sweeney, James Sr. and James Jr., portraits and bio (A History of the City of Buffalo, pp187-188, 1908).htm

James Sweeney Senior, photo (1908).jpg

Archive.org, transcribed by AI:James Sweeney, Senior, and James Sweeney, Junior.—About the year 1820 three residents of Buffalo—James Sweeney, John…

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Niagara Plant historical files.htm

From Hagley Archives:The E.I. du Pont de Nemours Niagara Plant produces a number of specialty chemicals, such as polymer acetates, sodium cyanide, and…

Great Sale of Lots in the Ironton District, ad (Polish Everybody’s Daily, 1922-10-17).jpg

Great Sale of Lots in the Ironton District, ad (Polish Everybody’s Daily, 1922-10-17).jpg

Translation from the Polish by AI:

Great Sale of Lots
in the Ironton District

Real Bargains for 10 Days
In the Fastest-Growing Neighborhood of…

Ironton-related news from Polish Everybody’s Daily newspaper (1912-1923).jpg

[Translated from a Buffalo Polish newspaper by AI]1912 A grand jury has indicted the brothers Jan and Stefan Kuczmiński for burglary (theft with…

John Carr buys 111 acres of Lot 75, deed (1868-04-27).jpg

John Carr 1868 deed from Ayer.jpg

This Indenture, made the Twenty-seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight BETWEEN Arthur J. Ayer, Susan…

Carr, John James (1817-1891)

Born 1817 in Dromore Parish, Down, Ireland. In Wheatfield by…