FRED: Buffalo Building of Dreams
Sample Historical Highlights (not in chronological order)
On July 15, 1895, the famous Niagara Starch Works Factory exploded on Howard Street in the City of Buffalo.
On February 16, 1861, Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural train stopped in Buffalo on his way to accept the Presidency of the United States.
On April 27, 1865, Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrived in Buffalo at 7:00 a.m. at the same Exchange Street Station.
Colera – in 1854, the year more than three thousand cases of the disease was recorded in Buffalo, New York.
The Great Strike of 1899 and stories about the Irish football match at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.
The Hull Settlement House on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois was co-founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr and Buffalo’s Young Suffragettes, pioneer social workers and reformers in 1899.
Famous Suffrage poster by Buffalo Artist Evelyn Rumsey, 1905 message “Give her the fruit of her hand and let her own works praise her in the gates.”
Welcome Hall Settlement House Program in Buffalo’s Canal District founded by Mary Remington, a Massachusetts social reformer.
D’Youville College, founded by the Green Nuns was the second women’s college built in New York State in 1908.
On March 3, 1913, the first suffragette March to Washington’s District of Columbia was held and organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, social reformers and suffragettes.
August 7, 1913, Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party became the first national party to adopt a woman’s suffrage plank under their equal suffrage statement.
May 18, 1917, the Selective Service Act and last draft on September 12, 1918.
November 11, 1918, World War I ended.
The Buffalo Children’s Aid Society founded in 1873.
Story of Kitty O’Neil, famous Irish Jig dancer/singer in the 1870’s and 1880’s.
Annie Edison Taylor story. On October 24, 1901, sixty-three year old Annie became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls.
Sicily’s crop failures, high taxes, and unstable Italian government and immigrants to America in 1880.