Historical Wyoming County July 1958 - Old Fulton History

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Page 122 July 19 58 M I L E S T O N E S John C. Atwood, native of Perry, has been professor of voice in Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia, since 1955. Jame3 F. Tool®, formerly of Perry, has been elected treasurer of . the Sperry Rand Corporation and continues as vice-president and treasurer of the corporation's Sperry Gyroscope Division, Great Neck, New ^ork. The remaining 8.51 miles of the Cattaraugus Road in the towns of Java and Arcade will be completed In 1959 according to the State Highway Department. This is one of the oldest roads in Wyoming County, having been laid out in 1809 by Roswell Turner, Sheldon, as a link between the settlements in northern Genesee ^ounty and the Holland Land Company's sub-agency at Ellicottville. Rochester's Democrat & Chronicle (Dec. 1, 1957) reported the transfer to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, of Civil War relics of the late ij t. Col. Abram Bc Lawrence, Warsaw. Col. Lawrence, then acting chief quartermaster, was named by General Grant to collect and take charge of all captured and surrendered quartermaster's property and stores of the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Lee A detailed personal record of this enemy property has been turned over to the U. S. Government together with the 11-inch four-pound key to the original Appomattox Courthouse,a key to the jail at the court house, a Confederate flag which flew in Richmond, the Southern capital. These relics remained in the Lawrence family until 1928 when they went into the possession of George and Edward Bauer, father and son of Rochester. Mr. Edward Bauer turned the records and relics over to the Government. On April 21, 1958, the Wyoming County Pomona Grange observed the 50th anniversary of its founding at a banquet at the Wyoming Central School. Honor was paid to all masters and lecturers of the organization since its inception, and a program, "Pomona, This is Your Life," was featured. Castile's sesquicentennial observance will be celebrated in a three day program this month, July 18-20. An historical brochure, an official postal cachet, a pageant, and a varied round of activities will feature Mary Jemison's hometown's celebration. On April 12, 1958, Warsaw's civic, educational and professional groups paid honor to Dr. Zina G. Truesdell, 8l, who is in his 60th year of medical practice. For twenty-five years he has served as school doctor, and I4.O years as a county health officer, and in 1911 helped found with Dr. W. R. Thompson the first hospital at Warsaw which has been succeeded by the Community Hospital Associated Press dispatches in April out of Washington revealed how Dr. Paul rt. Conpoy^ a native of Java Center, serves in a self-styled "devil's advocate" role in the preparation of young foreign service and information officers sent out by the U. S. Information Service. His task is to prepare diplomatic representatives to cope with questioners in foreign lands who seek explanations for such problems as (Continued on Page 123)
Pa ee 0 L 0 G Y July 19 The Right Reverend Prank McElwain, retired Bishop of the Minnesota diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church,died Sept. 19, 1957, at the age of 8l in Lexington, North Carolina. A native of WarsawvBishop McElwain attended Trinity College., and after theological training was ordained in 1903. He became Suffragan Bishop of Minnesota in 1912, then Bishop from 1917 until his retirement in 1914-3.Eor a decade he was also president and dean of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evans ton, 111. Two sons and two daughters survived him. A native of Eaglesbut resident of Warsaw more than 70 years,William D. Campbell, 88, died in that village Sept. 23, 1957. A chemist by profession,he was postmaster of Warsaw under President Wilson, village trustee, 1906-12,and an active member of the Democratic party. Three daughters and a son, the Rev. James Marsall Campbell, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Catholic University of America,survive „ Homer W. Clough, 88, the oldest alumnus of' Arcade High School and a nationally known meterologist,died at Richmond Hill,~N.Y., Oct. 28, 1957. His reputation was attained through his research into longrange weather forecasting at the Washington Bureau of the federal service. A period of weather activity has been named the "Clough Cycle" in his honor, and he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and held membership in other learned societies. Burial was at his native Arcade where his family were prominent in mid~19th century business activities. The Rev. Joseph E. Kocher,50, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Strykersville, died at Parry Sound, Ontario, Nov. 7, 1957, while on a hunting trip. He had been pastor of the Strykersville church since 1951, and was buried in the parish cemetery. Mrs. Vivian Arnold King, former Wyoming librarian and civic leader, died at Lakeland, Fla., Dec. 10. Burial at Rockwood, Pa. Robert M. Glor, 78, president of the R. M. G-lor & Son, Inc., Attica farm equipment manufacturers., died at Batavia, Nov. 30, 1957. Miss Eleanor P. Rudd, 76, also former librarian at Wyoming and secretary for many years to the late Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, died Dec. 16, 1957, at Wyoming. Burial in Buffalo. Mrs. Alice H. Belknap,Wyoming widow of Dr. Edward Belknap,died Dec. 5, 1957. She was a real estate broker and formerly co-owner of the Wyoming Water Works. She was an ardent and skilled shot over the traps and at one time she shot with the famed Annie Oakley. Mrs. Belknap was active in numerous civic enterprises. Burial at West Middlebury.
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