Historical Wyoming County April 1957 - Old Fulton History

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Page 6 6 MILESTONES (cont.) April 1957 Voters of the Perry Central School approved a %00,000 bond issue last month to construct a 12-room addition to the Central High School building. Following extensive flood damage to the right-of-way south of Attica in January, the directors of the Arcade & Attica Railroad voted to abandon the northerly 13 miles of the road and discontinue service to Johnsonburg, Varysburg and Attica. If approved by the I.C.C. and N.Y. State Public Service Commission, the line will continue to operate about 15 miles of line with its northern terminus at North Java station. Steps have been inaugurated by agricultural groups in the country to raise funds to erect a Farm and Home Center for the County wherein will be quartered county farm units and conservation groups. In the July 1953 issue of this bulletin, tombstone inscriptions of the Hatch Cemetery, Warsaw, were printed. Since that date, some additions have been received. Leander Cay, page 125>was born Dec.. 9, 1827; died Nov. 30, 1905. He was the son of Daniel & Betsey, and married Sarah L. in 1856. The B. F. Gay listed was Benjamin Franklin Gay. Mrs. Lawrence Jeffres, Covington Town Historian, has advised us of the following additional burials for whom no record was then available: Moses Perkins (Purkins), l8ll - 1892. (Buried beside his wife, Betsy Wilson Perkins (Purkins), d. March 29, 1851, 33y. Samuel Wheat Perkins, 1809 - 1882. Mary Densmore Perkins, wife of Samuel W., 1810 - 1879. Sydney Smith Spring> 1838 - 1915. Lillian Adell, wife Sydney S. Spring, i860 - 1930. It will also be of interest to know that a map of the cemetery is in existence,revealing the survey of the lots,which' are numbered and the names of many of the owners listed. No break-down of indivduals interred each lot Is available. t
April 1957 Page 8 9 N e c r o l o g y Lloyd B. Wheeler, '71, school principal in Port Chester, N. Y. for about forty years, died in that city, Aug. 18, 1956. A native of Bliss, he was buried at Smith's Corners, Wethersfield. Rev. Owen C. Baker, pastor of the Warsaw Methodist Church, 1916-192!+, died at his home in Conesus, N. Y., Dec. 5, 1956, after a ministrial career of fifty-eight years. He was for many years president of the Genesee Conference Epworth League, and a member of the board of trustees of the Silver Lake Institue and chairman of the Grounds Committee. At Margaretville, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1956, death came to William M. Hankins, 3'7, principal of Fleischmanns High School for the past two years. He was formerly teacher of English in the Attica Central School from 191+9 to 1953° A well known Perry business man, C. Frank Eaton, 82, died in Warsaw Jan. 6, 1957, after a long illness. A native of Macedon, Michigan, he came toPerryin 1905 andwas successively engaged in the hardware business, in dry goods and automobiles, and since 1920 in the undertaking field. He served several terms on the board of education, the town board and held membership in many civic groups. U. S. Commissioner Harry E.i Harding, '76, a resident of Snyder and graduate of Pike Seminary, died Dec. 18, 1956. He prepared for a legal career in Cornell, and since 1923 followed the profession in Buffalo. First named U. S. Commissioner in 1929, he had held the post continuously since. Burial was at Pike. George H. Newbitt, 7k> Warsaw died suddenly, Jan. 29, 1957 at his home. He was the donor of a site in Organgeville for a V. F. W. camp and aided veterans in securing home sites. Mayor of Attica, 1934-37, and trustee of the village many years, Burt F. Disbrow, died in Batavia, Feb. 20, 195'7 at the age of 85. A pharmacist, he began Attica's first telephone exchange in his. store and subsequently became district manager of the N. Y. Telephone Coat Batavia. He was clerk of the board of education 52 years, servea as supervisor several terms and was a leader in civic affairs. John C. Herzberger, 83, manager of Perry's Auditorium Theater for a quartet 0 of a century, died in Florida Feb. 19. He began his career in several New York productions and in vaudeville as a s inger before coming to Perry in 1913« Dr. Fred W„ Tanner, 69, a native of Kenmore, but resident of Warsaw in his youth and graduate of Warsaw High School,died at Winter Park, Fla., Feb. 21+. He attained international fame as a bacteriologist and food technologist at the University of Illinois where he became a member of the faculty in 1915« From 1925-49, he was head of the university's department of bacteriology, was founder and editor of Food Research, a journal of bacteriology, and was the author of more than 150 publications in microbiology and public health. He had maintained a summer liiome at Silver Lake for many years. (continued on,page 90)
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