Historical Wyoming County April 1959 - Old Fulton History

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Page 84 April 1959 CIVIL WAR ROLL OP HONOR (cont0) Waldo, Samuel U., 1st N..Y. Drag., 1863-65 as Sgt0 & 2nd Lt.j transferred to iith Art., 1865 Bannan, John, 136th Vol. •-Inf., 1862-65; Sgt., 1863; wounded in l86itp l865j discharged for disability, Rochester, NC Y0, 18651 commissioned 2nd Lt., May 1, 1865 Evans, David, Pvt., Co. M, 16th N„ Y. Cav., 1863 at Arcade; died May 8, l86ii, Vienna, Va. Guild, Eugene B„, enlisted Arcade, Sept. 15, 1863; mustered as M un- Assigned" private for 3 yearsf, listed 16th N„ Y. Cav. (Appreciation Is expressed to D0 Grant Hodge, H. Vernon Gihby, and Mayor J. T. Sullivan, all of Arcade, for aid In compiling the Arcade Civil War Roll of Hohor in 1951.) K0 R. Wilson, Inc., Arcade, manufacturers of garage tools and hydraulic presses, was purchased in November 1958 from the family of its founder by the .Chlsholm-Ryder combinations of firms, Niagara Palls, N0YoSaid to have involved a purchase price of about $500,000, the firm at Arcade will operate under its own name as a subsidary of the parent company which specializes In food processing machinery and mechanical harvesting equipment. Representative Harold Cc Ostertag, Attica, is the top-ranking Republican member of the Independent Offices Appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives according to assignment in 'the present session of Congress. membership continues on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, and there he ranks second among Republican members. Henry Ten Hagen, Sr., Warsaw, was named chief engineer of the New York State Department of Public.Works early in January. Mr. Ten Hagen, a former president of the Warsaw Historical Society and active in the Albany society, entered State service ii.6 years ago, a career Interrupted by his World War I overseas assignments. He came to Warsaw as a county assistant engineer, rose to associate civil engineer In charge of maintenance in the Rochester district and then to assistant district engineer. He went to Albany in 1950 to serve as acting deputy superintendent, and was named deputy chief engineer in charge of canals, waterways and flood control, town highways and highway planning. (continued on page 85)
April 1959 MILESTONES (cont.) Page 8 5 Mrs. Grace Ostertag, wife of the Congressman from the 39th district, was elected first vice-president of the Congressional Club, a social and cultural organization for wives of members of Congress. A widely known resident of Attica, she was formerly Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star in this state. In February, Pope John XXIII elevated Dean James Marshall Campbell, a native of Warsaw, to domestic prelate with the title of right reverend monsignor. Msgr. Campbell has been with the Catholic University, Washington, D. C., since 1918, serving as a teacher of Greek and Latin, and as a professor since 193b when he also became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has been engaged in editorial work in the classics and written several volumes. A native of Gainesville, J. Victor Skiff, has been reappointed to his former post of Deputy Commissioner of Conservation in Albany. He has been in the conservation department for 16 years and four years as legislative consultant. He first held his present post under Governor Dewey through a ten-year period. At auction, Feb. i|th, the five remaining Ground Observation Posts in the county were sold. These were located over the Fire Hall, Perry; in the Village Park, Arcade; at Wyoming;in Gainsville; and in Warsaw on the east side of the road, north of the hospital. With their sale passed into history an outstanding peacetime volunteer civilian group whose services are no longer deemed necessary due to the improved radar detection system. Cornell University Press, in December 1958, announced publication of A Pioneer Songster, from texts found in the Stevens-Douglass manuscript of western New York, l81^.1-l85>6, and edited by Dr. Harold W. Thompson, Goldwin Smith Professor of English, Cornell, and Miss Edith E. Cutting. The manuscript, written down by the Capt. Artemas Stevens family, who came to Java in 1836, has been hailed as "the most important collection of traditional song-texts, British and American in origin, to survive from its period." Nearly 100 songs are included in this volume, which preserves ballads of love, war and romantic story, of American history and politics, nearly all taken from a single mouse-nibbled manuscript found in 1936. William J. Davidson, Warsaw, was named by Governor Rockefeller as an Assistant Secretary of State in charge of the Buffalo office. The Middlebury Historical Society has been solicited by a Colorado researcher for information concerning Abigail E. Johnson, who was a student in Middlebury Academy in the 1890's. She became an Influential educator among the Hopi Indians, and a' biography of the lady Is now in the course of preparation. Older residents of Wyoming recall her as a quiet young woman, who attended the Baptist Church, and resided on the east hill a few years before leaving for the mission field. Among her writings was a volume entitled Beyond the Black Buttes. Readers who have information on Miss Johnson should communicate with Mrs. Mary D. Wilson, Wyoming.
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