Name of Individual or Firm: Charles L. Ervay Spouse/Family Relation: Adelia A # of Children Under 21: 2 Business or Occupation: Carpenter Chief Crop or Specialty: Property: Owned 8 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Brookton RD 24 1914 AA ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 09, 2024 23:59
American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914. Transcription...
This house was originally built after 1812 by Henry Ackley and located at the NW corner of Seneca and Cayuga Streets. In 1874, after the death of Henry's wife, Lydia, their son-in-law, Samuel H. Winton, built a new house for his family on that sit...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 17, 2025 14:33
Mary Tomlan, "Fashionable house became home for women's federation," Ithaca Journal, March 31, 2012, 9A.
"A new community center for the North Side of the city progressed a step toward revitalization yesterday at the meeting of the Social Service League Council when it was announced that a close friend of the League had given $5,000 to be used as the...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 07, 2024 18:32
"$5,000 Is Given For North Side Center Fund," Ithaca Journal, April 11, 1928, 8. https://ithacajournal.newspapers.com/image/254711257/?match=1&term...
206 Third St Ithaca (as of 1899) 24 Third St Ithaca (as of 1878) 27 Third St Ithaca
“Captain Abram VanOrder, one of the oldest and best known citizens of this region died at his home in this city yesterday at noon…. The funeral will be held at his late home, 24 Third street, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. About the year 1760,...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 06, 2024 20:44
Obituary of Capt. Abram VanOrder, Ithaca Daily Journal, September 16, 1895, 3, cols 4-5, https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=idj18950916-01.1.3
East Hill Historic District, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form, 1986, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322491
"Bailor Road was named for Daniel Bailor, whose farm in 1880 was located on the west end of this road, which went from Seventy-Six Road (now Central Chapel Road) to Buffalo Road. In the 1849 Pathmaster’s Book, Bailor Road was shown as Chestnut Roa...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 18, 2024 20:16
Barbara Kone, "Town of Caroline," in Carol Kammen, ed. Place Names of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY: Office of the Tompkins County Historian, 2004.
"Frank R. Benton, 62, for many years preparatory in the Department of Anatomy in the Cornell University Medical College, a graduate of Cornell University Law School and widely known, died suddenly in his home, 313 Willow Avenue.... Mr. Benton was ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 05, 2024 00:21
“’Beau’ Benton Dies Suddenly At His Home,” Ithaca Journal, March 8, 1929, 5.
Tompkins County Department of Assessment
Frank Spencer born in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, on November 26 1891 to Frank A Spencer, age 29, coachman, and Martha S Spencer.
Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 22, 2024 18:00
Frank Spencer in the New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Birth Index, 1878-1909, Ancestry.com; Frank A. Spencer in the New York, New York, U.S., In...
Name of Individual: Leslie Crispell Specialty: General Farming Clock System House Number: 2-1-Z Community: Brookton Current Street Address: 159 Central Chapel? Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brookton RD Telephone: Caroline
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 16, 2024 01:46
“Clock System” Rural Index Caroline Township, 1920, Ithaca, N.Y.: American Rural Index Corporation Eastern Division, 1920. HistoryForge transcripti...
Find a Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162467896/thomas_charles_burns
Zackariah Tyler, New York, U.S., Grand Army of the Republic Records, 1866-1931, Ancestry.com
Name of Individual: Dwight Bishop Specialty: General Farming Clock System House Number: 10-0-Q Community: Brookton Current Street Address: 354 Brooktondale Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brookton RD 24 Telephone:
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 13, 2024 23:49
“Clock System” Rural Index Caroline Township, 1920, Ithaca, N.Y.: American Rural Index Corporation Eastern Division, 1920. HistoryForge transcripti...
Name of Individual or Firm: Augustus Middaugh Spouse/Family Relation: Viola # of Children Under 21: 4 Business or Occupation: Farmer Chief Crop or Specialty: Property: Owned 69 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Brookton RD 24 1914 AA Road...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 13, 2024 01:19
American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914 HistoryForge t...
"Born May 27, 1896, the son of John H. and Rachel O. Wilson at Richmond, Va. Took private lessons from local professor in Richmond, Va studying the piano, beginning at the age of 7, and continuing until my graduation from High School at the a...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 27, 2024 17:48
Charles O. Wilson, WPA [TERA] Oral History Biographies, V16-1-7, The History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY.