Narratives

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Name of Individual or Firm: Charles R. Lounsberry Spouse/Family Relation: Annie L # of Children Under 21: 5 Business or Occupation: Farmer Chief Crop or Specialty: Poultry Property: Owned 105 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Brookton RD 22 ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 13, 2024 00:08

American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914 HistoryForge t...

Anna L Lounsbery
Charles R Lounsbery

"A heart attack Wednesday night brought death to Willis G. Besemer, 80, life-long resident of the settlement bearing his name. He was the only station agent who ever served at Besemer Station of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Mr. Besemer became ill l...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 15, 2024 16:37

"Death Takes Veteran Station Agent," Ithaca Journal, December 31, 1936, 3.

Willis G Besemer

Name of Individual or Firm: John H. Dusenbery Spouse/Family Relation: Mary # of Children Under 21:  Business or Occupation: Farmer Chief Crop or Specialty:   Property: Worked on Shares 168 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Slaterville 1914 A...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 09, 2024 22:01

American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914 HistoryForge t...

John H Dusenberry

"Besemer Station. The Elmira, Central & Northern Railroad (EC&N) built a water tank approximately six miles southeast of Ithaca, near the home of Josiah Besemer, whose family had settled the area before 1820. Mr. Besemer sought a station near the ...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 15, 2024 17:48

Barbara Kone, "Town of Caroline," in Carol Kammen, ed. Place Names of Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY: Office of the Tompkins County Historian, 2004, 17.

Slaterville Rd Caroline

303 Lake St: Ithaca Paper Co. 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 16, 2024 18:20

Name of Individual or Firm: Jason Hotaling Spouse/Family Relation: Hattie M # of Children Under 21: 1 Business or Occupation: Farmer Chief Crop or Specialty:   Property: Owned 104 acres Rural Delivery Route/Post Office: Berkshire RD 1  1914 AA Roa...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 12, 2024 19:57

American Agriculturist Farm Directory of Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Seneca Counties New York, New York: Orange Judd Company, 1914 HistoryForge t...

Jason Hotaling

Frances Hungerford Williams, 1869-1871

Submitted by Eve Snyder on November 07, 2025 01:22

Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44093477/frances-hungerford-williams

Fanny Williams

“Mr. John C. Gee (1866-1942) of Central Chapel was the owner of the abandoned church building that overlooked the intersection of Shindagin Road and Brearley Hill Road, as late as 1939…. Since childhood he had lived on a farm at Central Chapel. In...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 18, 2024 15:33

A History of the Town of Caroline, Tompkins County, New York, United States of America, 1994, , accessed October 15, 2024, http://www.carolinehisto...

John C Gee

"Born in Ithaca he was the son of the late Rocco and Mattia Susca Jamarusty."

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 20, 2024 02:29

"Phillip R. (Rookie) Jimrusti," Ithaca Journal, May 29, 1996, 4.

Phillip R Jimrusti

Name of Individual: Mrs. Mabel Freeland Specialty: Dairy Clock System House Number: 10-1-X Community: Speedsville Current Street Address: 1108? Seventy Six Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Berkshire RD 1 Telephone: 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 17, 2024 18:38

“Clock System” Rural Index Caroline Township, 1920, Ithaca, N.Y.: American Rural Index Corporation Eastern Division, 1920. HistoryForge transcripti...

Mabel Freeland

Year built ca. 1898

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 16, 2025 20:26

East Hill Historic District, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form, 1986, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322491

506 E Seneca St Ithaca (as of 1899) 106 E Seneca St Ithaca

Frank English, 1880-1932 Quick Cemetery Caroline, Tompkins, NY

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 09, 2024 23:13

Find a Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67416966/frank-english

205 Lounsbery Rd Caroline

Frank English

Lottie A. Osborne Conklin, 1845-1908

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 20, 2025 01:05

Find a Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137707206/lottie_a_conklin

Lottie O Conklin

Frank E. Blackman, 1858-1930

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 13, 2024 22:56

Find a Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111705433/frank-e.-blackman

Frank E Blackman

"Oreste Morris has completed the construction of a handsome new eight-room residence on the 900 block on North Cayuga street and has begun construction of another residential building on adjacent property, which will contain two apartments. He als...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on January 20, 2025 14:47

"Homes Valued at $340,000 Being Built," Ithaca Journal, May 19, 1922, 5.

Oreste Morris

Name of Individual: Richard Lynch Specialty: General Farming Clock System House Number: 12-1-A Community: Caroline Center Current Street Address: 215? Speed Hill Rd Post Office/Rural Delivery Route: Brookton RD 23 Telephone: 

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 19, 2024 00:00

“Clock System” Rural Index Caroline Township, 1920, Ithaca, N.Y.: American Rural Index Corporation Eastern Division, 1920. HistoryForge transcripti...

Richard R Lynch

Ithaca Conservatory of Music's first classes were taught here in 1892.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 17, 2025 01:54

Advertisement for the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in the Ithaca Daily Journal, September 1, 1892, 3.

403 E Seneca St Ithaca (as of 1899) 71 E Seneca St Ithaca

407-409 E Seneca St year built ca. 1910

Submitted by Eve Snyder on December 17, 2025 02:10

East Hill Historic District, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form, 1986, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322491

407 E Seneca St Ithaca

"Aurora Heights, the new housing development on Grandview Ave became a reality today. Two families moved into the area overlooking Cayuga Lake on South Hill. It is expected this development designed to provide occupancy for 58 families will be fil...

Submitted by Eve Snyder on October 27, 2024 21:10

"New Housing Opened to 2 Families," Ithaca Journal, May 11, 1948, 3.

Grandview Ct Ithaca

Malone Thomas, laborer, h. N.E. cor. Auburn and W. Lewis.

Submitted by Eve Snyder on July 13, 2025 01:03