“The death of Mr. George Rankin, senior member of the firm Rankin & Son, occurred last evening at his residence on East Seneca street. Mr. Rankin was one of Ithaca’s oldest, best-known and most thoroughly respected merchants. He started a crockery...
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“Death of a Well Known Merchant,” Ithaca Daily Journal, December 27, 1888, 3, accessed March 15, 2026 https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=...
Obituary of Marsaille Jenkins, Ithaca Journal, March 9, 1966 3
"Miss Mary Elizabeth Bessac, 95, for many years a resident of 118 E Court St., died Sunday Nov. 27, 1949, at the Pine Crest Nursing Home, Town of Groton, after a long illness. Before her illness she was an active member of the First Presbyteri...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 19, 2026 23:36
"Deaths, Funerals: Miss Mary Elizabeth Bessac," Ithaca Journal, November 28, 1949, 3.
“Through it all Urban Renewal led the way with detail work, like…demolishing the old Central Fire Station at 208 E Seneca St. and the old Savings and Loan Assn. building on the south side of the Tuning Fork.”
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 01, 2025 18:44
Judith Horstman, “Hotel Block: Construction Start in ’72?,” Ithaca Journal, January 1, 1972, 6.
Bernstein Bldg. Card's Boot Shop (Timothy A. Card and Donald W. Card), Shoe Dealers Robert S. Gutsell, Physician William H. DeVoy, Chiropractor
Submitted by Genevieve Barbee on March 13, 2025 20:26
Manning’s Ithaca Directory, January 1930 H. A. Manning Co, Schenectady, NY
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"Albert Frederick Johnson, 56, of 111 Cleveland Ave., Ithaca, died Saturday, Dec. 17, 1983, at Tompkins Community Hospital. A native of Ithaca, he was the son of the late Charles P. and Bertha M. Moss Johnson. Johnson was a graduate of the Ith...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 18, 2026 19:42
"Deaths, Albert Frederick Johnson," Ithaca Journal, December 19, 1983, 5.
"Miss Barbara Bailor, 37, of 532 W. Green St. died in Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA. Sunday, July 26, 1964. She was a graduate of Newark Valley High School and worked at Cornell University as a technician for 14 years. She was a member of ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 18, 2026 19:35
"Deaths, Funerals: Miss Barbara Bailor," Ithaca Journal, July 27, 1964, 7.
“Like the proverbial bad penny, Napoleon, Ithaca’s famous thinking bulldog, has again strayed into the limelight. No, Napoleon has not been arrested again for biting trolley car conductors, nor has he been interrupting shows with his sonorous, cat...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 01, 2024 17:16
“Napoleon Goes to Ann Arbor for Football Game: He Will Be Well Cared For and Brought Back, So Ithacans Need Not Worry—Has Booked Passage to Philade...
"He Was a Veteran Boat Builder, Well Known on the Lakes--Constructed Many of the Boats That Plied to and From This Port. Benjamin F. Taber, one of the oldest and best-known citizens of this city, died at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at his residenc...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 27, 2024 13:57
"B.F. Taber Called To His Reward: Aged and Respected Resident Died This Afternoon," Ithaca Daily Journal, February 19, 1909, 3, accessed September ...
"The oldest wooden commercial structure in Ithaca, the building at 124-126 W. State St. housed two apartments and two businesses--the State Smoke Shop and the calzone shop D.P. Dough. After the fire that gutted the upper stories, the city's buildi...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 20, 2024 02:20
Lea Setegn, "State St. Fire Fixes Continue," Ithaca Journal, January 9, 1996, 3.
“A five-story building at 109-111 N Aurora St. housing Head’s Camera Shop and Central American (Gift) Shop as well as 12 persons in upper floor apartments was destroyed today in a pre-dawn fire…. The building, more than 130 years old, is the only ...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on September 17, 2024 16:51
Sue Strandberg, “Fire Destroys Downtown Business, Apartment Building,” Ithaca Journal, January 3, 1968, 13, 21
111 N Aurora St Ithaca (as of 1899)
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“Laat Monday morning Llyod Dorsey, one of the oldest residents of this village, died at the home of his daughter Mary, aged 85 years. When but a youth Mr. Dorsey, then a slave in Maryland, ran away determined to seek liberty and freedom in the...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on May 31, 2026 01:19
“Obituary: Lloyd Dorsey,” Free Press and Sentinel, April 30, 1904, 1.
"I would like to pay my respects to 'Charlie' as he was known by so many Ithacans. During World War I he worked up to become a sergeant in the army, and went overseas to France near the end of the war in a contingent of about 2,000 negro troo...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 27, 2024 17:30
Allan H. Treman, "Letters to the Editor: Charlie Was Quite a Man," Ithaca Journal, March 26, 1973, 11.
"Freeville -- Leon William (Bill) Johnson Sr., of 482 Sheldon Rd. died Thursday, Jan. 6, 1972. The son of the late Charles Phillip Johnson, he was born October. 13, 1908, in Madison County. He is survived by a son, Leo Johnson Jr. of Rochest...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on April 18, 2026 19:05
"Deaths, Funerals: Leo William (Bill) Johnson Sr.," Ithaca Journal, January 10, 1972, 4.
"Located at the southeast corner of Seneca Way and Aurora St. it is the second all-new building to be completed in Project 1 of the Urban Renewal program, the first being Woolworth's Department Store."
Submitted by Eve Snyder on August 16, 2024 14:08
Judith Horstman, "New 'Contemporary Trends' Open for Business," Ithaca Journal, December 2, 1969, 11.
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"Mrs. Spencer died yesterday afternoon...at the City Hospital.... She was born in Richmond, Va., in 1863 and resided there for a number of years. She married Frank A. Spencer in 1887 and came to this city with her husband in 1892. Besides her husb...
Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 22, 2024 18:08
Obituary of Martha J. Spencer, Ithaca Daily Journal, December 12, 1903, 6.