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Congressman, Senator, Governor, “Soldiers’ Friend” Reuben Fenton Turns 200
One of the most well-known political figures to emerge from our corner of New York State was Reuben E. Fenton, who was born 200 years this July 4 (2019) in the Town of Carroll. To celebrate his 200th birthday, here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Albert Gilbert, Albert Woolson, Arthur Wellman, B. Dolores Thompson, C. Malcolm Nichols, Charles Dow, Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors, Chautauqua County Veterans' Union, Congressman, Cora Gillis, Daniel Lincoln, DeForest Peterson, Edgar Olson, Edgar Putnam, Edna Ingham, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Scudder, Ernest Leet, Ernest Muzzy, Fenton Mansion, First National Bank, Frank Gifford, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frederick Hall, G. A. Haynes, George Lindstrom, Governor of New York State, Grand Army of the Republic, Harry Burgeson, Harry Rose, Harry Stone, Helen McMahon, Helena Stonehouse, Horace Greeley, Jamestown Evening Journal, Jamestown Morning Post, Jamestown Public Schools, Jane Frew, Jennie Vimmerstedt, John Crissey, John Sinclair, Mary Torrance, Michael Hjalmarson, National Chautauqua County Bank, National Register of Historic Places, New York State Board of Regents, Republican Party, Reuben Fenton, Robert Beech, Robert H. Jackson, Rovillus Rogers, Rutherford B Hayes, Samuel Carlson, Sheldon Myregaard, Stanley Weeks, Susan B. Anthony, Sybil McFadden, U. S. House of Representatives, U. S. Monetary Commission, U.S. Senate, Warren Howard, William McKinley, William Reynolds Jr, William Whitehead
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U.S. Senator Schumer Requests Bedell Letters to be Displayed at McClurg Museum
WASHINGTON, DC (June 8, 2014) – U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer is asking the Detroit Public Library and the Benjamin Shapell Manuscript Foundation to lend two letters exchanged between Abraham Lincoln and Westfield native Grace Bedell to the Chautauqua County … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Shapell Manuscript Foundation, Charles E. Schumer, Chautauqua County Historical Society, Detroit Public Library, Grace Bedell, Jo Anne Mondowney, John Paul Wolfe, McClurg Mansion, Menachem Grossman
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Chautauqua County Represented at Battle of Gettysburg
2013 marks the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). To commemorate the anniversary of what many consider the most important battle to ever take place in the Western Hemisphere, we spent July 1 through July 3 … Continue reading
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Tagged 154th NY Volunteer Infantry, 1st Minnesota Infantry, 4th U.S. Artillery, 72nd NY Volunteer Infantry, 8th Florida Volunteer Infantry, 9th NY Cavalry, A Day in the Life, Adaline Bliss, Adolph von Steinwehr, Alfred Pleasonton, Alonzo Cushing, Alpheus Hodges, Amos Humiston, Andrew A. Humprhey, Ashville, Battle of Gettysburg, Benjamin J. Coffin, Byron A. Wiggins, Cadmus Wilcox, Charles Foss, Charles R. Coster, Civil War, Daniel B. Allen, Daniel E. Sickles, Daniel L. Bourke, Dennis Snyder, Dunkirk, Eliott Homer, Forestville, Frank C. Cave, Frederick Platte, Frederick Schreiner, Fredonia, George F. Hankin, Isaac C. Strain, James A. Cyrus, James W. Bird, Jamestown, Joel M. Bouton, John Buford, John F. Reynolds, John Gibbon, John Higler, John Leonard, John S. Austin, Jubal Early, Lewis Bishop, M. B. Cheney, Michael Gonnelly, Oliver Howard, Peter Kennish, Sickle's Excelsior Brigade, Sinclairville, Surendus A. Godfrey, T.C. Devin, Third Excelsior, Thomas Holland, Thomas Horan, W. A. Scranton, Westfield, William Bliss, William H. Lovell, William Harrow, William J. Colvill Jr., William R. Brewster, William Sackett, Willliam Moore, Winfield Scott Hancock
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