Historical Wyoming County May 1952 - Old Fulton History

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REV. RUSSEL H. CRANE, 61^., pastor of the Bliss Baptist church, 1927-
1931, died Jan. 30 at Friendship, N. Y.
CARL W. BUCKLAND, retired Perry businessman, died March 6 in Warsaw,
at the age of 70,
DR. WILLIAM ROSS THOMPSON, 8l, founder of the Warsaw Hospital in
1911, on the site of the present Community Hospital, died on March
18 in New York City. Except for service in World War I, Dr. Thompson
acted as chief surgeon until 1930 at Warsaw at which time the hospital
was turned over to the state and county.
A former mayor and postmaster of Castile, PRAM W. SCHUMAKER, 82,
died March 17 at Warsaw. A native of Orangeville, he was for more
than 30 years a partner in the Castile Chilled Plow Works where he
designed and perfected various types of plows and other equipment.
He was active in church, fraternal and civic groups, had served two
terms as mayor and appointed postmaster by President Wilson.
J. NORMAN McGEE, president of the Genesee Trust Co., Batavia, since
1938, died at his home, March 29, age 57• Born in Warsaw and a
graduate from the high school there, he attended Rutgers University,
entered the banking business in New York City* He next served as an
officer of the Pike Banking Co., Pike, and joined the Batavia trust
firm in 1932=. He was an officer of the State Bankers Association, a
former president of the Batavia Chamber of Commerce and a member of
several veterans' organizations.
MRS. ALINCIA BUSHNELL PARKER, 88, last of the famous Bushnell Sextuplets,
born in Chicago, Sept. , 1863, died at Warsaw, March 26.
A resident of Silver Lake for the past half-century, she was one of
three boys and three girls, all of whom reached a maturity, born to
James Bushnell and his French actress wife. Mrs. Parker had worked
nearly lj_0 years for the Perry Knitting Co,, and used to walk the two
miles between her home and the mill twice daily. Her husband, Daniel
Parker, once operated a news stand at Silver Lake. The sextuplets
received national acclaim some years ago when Mrs. Parker was invited
to New York to appear on Ripley's "Believe it or Not" show. She
reported in recent years that the family did receive some public
assistance at the time of the multiple births but it was an event
that attracted no great attention back in the Civil War days. She
was buried at Lockport, N. Y,
JOHN L. PECK, 77, supervisor from Attica, 1930-19^, died in that
place April 23. A native of Bennington, he was for 35 years engaged
in the retail grocery and meat business in Attica, a past president
of the Chamber of Commerce, and associated with numerous civic,
religious, and fraternal groups.