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Bicentennial Biographies No. 126 – 130
A collection of bicentennial biographies from Chautauqua County, N.Y. featuring Reuben Fenton (Carroll), Thomas Horan (Dunkirk), Alonzo Cushing and William Cushing (Fredonia) and David Parker (Ashville). Originally broadcast on local radio stations July 4 – July 8, 2011. No. 126 – … Continue reading
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Zattu Cushing – Bicentennial Biography No. 8
The first white man to settle in what is now Fredonia was Thomas McClintock. But the first to permanently settle on the waters of Canadaway Creek was Zattu Cushing, who came in 1805 from Oneida County.
A ship’s carpenter by trade, Cushing was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts and had worked in Boston and then in Oneida County. In 1798 Continue reading
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Tagged Bicentennial Biographies, Canadaway Creek, Fredonia NY, War of 1812, Zattu Cushing
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