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Subject: Re: Surnames in Buffalo Attn: Lynnea D.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:10:30 EDT

Hi list,
As promised here are the surnames mentioned in the Quad-City Times
edition of
Sun. May 23, 1976, pp. 8 & 9 D. Article by Julie Jensen entitled " Buffalo:
Once It Was Gateway To The West".

IN EXPLANATIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
Robert RUDEN; Mrs. Ed RODDWIG; W.L. MILLER; Josephine HIERSMAN; Ray
SCHLEDEWITZ; Ed PARENT and W.F.KAUTZ

SURNAMES OF BEFFALO:
Capt. Benjamin W. CLARK, 1st postmaster
E.A. MIX
Dr. E. PILLSBURY
LYND ( a peddlar)
STEPHENSON (Rock Island)
Erastus H. BASSETT, 1st schoolteacher
M.W. BOSWORTH, 2nd postmaster
S.E. HASTINGS, JP
August P. RICHTER, German-American historian

ALLEN OLMSTED
John COOPER wed WINNIE JANE PACE, the 1st marriage of a Buffalo resident
MCMURRY, a Methodist minister from Andalusia, conducted 1st religious
services
HASSER's Union Band and the Wilton Cornet Band provided the music for
the
consecration of the Buffalo Catholic Church on June 21, 1868
Paul THIER, 1srt mine fatality in 1873

BUSINESSES:
Capt. Warner Lewis CLARK, son of the town founder; ran a line of packets
between
Davenport & Keokuk; owned a quarter of the steamer "Uncle Toby"
[Other river packets mentioned in the article were the "Helen Blair"
and "Columbia".]
John ROWAN, mayor in 1881
Louis SCHUH and Brother, founded saw & planing mill in 1854
Fred HOFFBAUER, started a brewery in 1864
John BARTBERGER and his son-in-law Theodore KAUTZ, "operated a smaller
brewery
that burned in 1881, and the HOFFBAUER brewery succumbed to
prohibition a few
years later."
H. H. CASS started a brick and tile works in 1883
Burl FRAGER, a grocer & meat-cutter
Ferdinand BALD, the commercial photographer, paperer and painter "who
was the first
citizen of Buffalo to live past the century mark."
Adolph MURER, a bakery
William PETERSEN, bought out MURER and "changed the bakery into a
tavern."
BOWSER Brothers button factory
DORMAN's store
J. MOUNTS, changed the barber shop/patent medicine store to a tonsorial
parlor in 1912
Charles FRANK built many of the structures in Buffalo
Hugo HOFFBAUER, a Civil War captain, had a store
Max HOFFBAUER, his brother, ran a tavern and later took over the store
Ed and Dan BALD had a button factory
Bill COLLINS had a blacksmith shop
Dominick OCHSNER had a shoe repair shop
Clarence ZOGG, the postmaster, sold patent medicines at the old Knights
of Pythias Hall
"and the building was used as an early theater"
Valentine RAUCH was a custom butcher and sausage maker
John WAPSI made cigars
George Cram "Jig" COOK, a truck garderer. His first wife was Mollie
PRICE
"COOK and his second wife, Susan GLASPEL, founded the Provincetown
Players and
gave the playwright Eugene O'Neill his start."
Paul COOK joined his brother playing ball for the Buffalo team
DOLESE brothers quarry
Smith MOUNTS, an assistant to Benjamin CLARK, "removed John SHOOK's
frozen toes
with a mallet and chisel in 1833."

SURNAMES OF MORE RECENT YEARS:

Harold McCULLOUGH, Mayor in 1976
Ruby McCULLOUGH, his wife
Mrs. Lelia PAGEL
Elmer WRAGE
Jim FARLEY, FDR's Postmaster General, visited Mrs. Emma HARRISON the
granddaughter of Benjamin CLARK

I hope you find some kin here. If any of you track down the 1976 PTA's
bicentennial project of a coloring book of old Buffalo scenes with sketches
by Cathy Whitehead, a West High School senior; or, the committee's recognition
of the more than 80 houses built before 1900, I would love to locate them.
I am hoping they would include the August WESTENDORF homestead on the east
end of town next to the brick factory which he managed. He was my Grandfather.
Jo Westendorf Banks

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