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On July 12, 1887, Matthews married Mary Elizabeth Burrows of Buffalo. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Together they had three children: George E. Matthews Jr.; Harriet Wells Matthews, [ 5 ] who married J. Randall Williams, Jr. of "J. Randall Williams & Co." in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [ 6 ] and Northern Central Railway ; [ 7 ] and Burrows Matthews , [ 2 ...
Samuel Clemens (center) with American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, and David Gray, editor of the Buffalo Express [1] The Courier-Express was created in 1926 by a merger of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo Morning Express. William J. Conners, the owner of the Buffalo Courier, brought the two papers together ...
Edward M. Cotter is a fireboat in use by the Buffalo Fire Department at Buffalo, New York, United States. Originally named William S. Grattan, it was built in 1900 by the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth Port, New Jersey. Due to age, it was rebuilt in 1953 and renamed Firefighter upon its return to service.
Owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1935 to 1998 [citation needed], other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Des Moines Register, the Buffalo Courier-Express, the Scottsdale Progress and the Rapid City Journal. The company also owned the Register and Tribune Syndicate (established in 1922).
The Buffalo Courier and Enquirer was issued a temporary authorization for 360 meters, with the call sign WPU, for a January 22, 1922, concert. This broadcast employed apparatus "furnished by the Federal Telephone & Telegraph Co." [6] In early 1922, Federal, headquartered in North Buffalo, began producing radio receivers. [7]
The total snowfall for Buffalo during the storm was only 12 in (30 cm) (Port Colborne in Ontario received 18.3 in (46 cm). [36] The blizzard was made unique by the sustained winds, gusting up to 69 mph (111 km/h), which picked up the snowdrifts piled on the frozen Lake Erie and dumped that snow load in western New York and southern Ontario. [36]
United States Custom House, Buffalo, Washington and Seneca Streets, 1901. Buffalo Creek was made a Port of Entry in 1805 by President Thomas Jefferson. [2] On March 11, 1811, President James Madison issued a proclamation removing the port of entry for the Buffalo district to Black Rock (which was not a part of Buffalo at the time), [a] in pursuance of an act of Congress dated March 2, 1811 ...
Charles Waterhouse Goodyear (October 15, 1846 – April 16, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman, lumberman, and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York. . Based in Buffalo, New York, along with his brother, Frank, Charles was the founder and president of several companies, including the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, Great Southern Lumber Company, Goodyear Lumber Company ...