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Erie County, NY history

Erie County Directory for 1924

Historical and genealogical material from Erie County, NY

All of the items listed below are included in this new CD-ROM. 

Erie County Directory

Erie County Directory for 1924.  326 pages.  This directory was one of three directories published for Erie County that year (the other two covered the cities of Buffalo and Tonawanda -- sorry, we don't have these two, but if they come into our possession in the future we'll consider republishing them as well), and we think this one is worthy of republication on its own, simply for the genealogical information it contains.  As far as we have been able to find out, this was the first of a series of directories of Erie County.  All are quite scarce today.  Falling near the middle of a decade, this one provides a convenient checkpoint between the 1920 and 1930 censuses. 

Below is a typical page from the alphabetic list of residents of Erie County as it appears in the Directory.  Click on the image below to see the full-sized page (and click the left arrow in your browser to return to this page):

Erie County Directory -- sample page

We thought that a list of the localities (cities, towns, villages, hamlets, what have you) in the alphabetic section of the directory might be helpful -- so here it is.)

 

Localities in the alphabetical section of the Erie County Directory (note that some locations are outside the scope of the Directory as they represent home/business addresses of entities within the Directory's scope)

Akron

Alden

Amherst

Angola

Athol Springs

Aurora

Blaisdell

Blasdell

Boston

Bowmansville

Brant

Buffalo

Chaffee

Cheektowaga

Clarence

Clarence Center

Colden

Collins

Concord

Cowlesville

Crittenden

Depew

Derby

East Amherst

East Aurora

East Concord

East Hamburg

Ebenezer

Eden

Elma

Evans

Farnham

Forks

Gardenville

Getzville

Glenwood

Gowanda

Grand Island

Hamburg

Holland

Irving

Jewettville

Kenmore

Lackawanna

Lake View

Lancaster

Lawton

Lawtons

Marilla

Martinsville

Mill Grove

Millgrove

Newstead

North Boston

North Collins

North Evans

Orchard Park

Porterville

Protection

Sardinia

Shaleton

Sloan

Snyder

South Wales

Springville

Swormsville

Tonawanda

Town Line

Wales

Wales Center

West Falls

West Seneca

Williamsville

Woodlawn

Woodlawn Beach

 

Frontier Central Schools' "Gateway"

The 1954 Gateway, yearbook of the Frontier Central Schools.  80 pages.  We've completed scanning this one.  There's a list of the surnames contained in the Frontier Central Schools class of 1954 in the table below for your convenience.  Meantime, you can take a look at what Frontier Central Schools look like today, in 2005, some 51 years after this class graduated.  Click here to visit the website of today's Frontier Central (located in Hamburg, NY, and one of a rather small number, sadly, of school systems in the nation recognized by Parents Magazine as having a true music program.  We always liked music in school, and it's a shame that it's become a thing of the past most places today.).  At the time of the 1954 yearbook, the schools in the Frontier CSD consisted of Blasdell and Woodlawn High Schools (which share this yearbook), and eight elementary schools (Athol Springs, Big Tree, Blasdell, Wanakah, Woodlawn, Amsdell, Lake View, and Shaleton).  The yearbook notes that January 1954 marked the groundbreaking for a new Frontier Central Junior/Senior High School.  According to their website, the district currently consists of four K-5 elementary schools (Big Tree, Blasdell, Cloverbank, and Pinehurst); a middle school; and a high school. 

 

Surnames in the Frontier Central School Class of 1954

Bailey

Ballagh

Beals

Bonner

Bouley

Brown

Bus

Cabibi

Carpentier

Cheney

Clark

Clever

Clothier

Cooper

Costello

Crance

Croce

Crusan

DelBello

Eckert

Ernewein

Esch

Figiel

Firth

Floreno

Frisa

Fumerelle

Gilson

Goodheart

Goodrich

Goodwin

Graf

Green

Gretka

Hammond

Henry

Hesslink

Howe

Hunter

Jones

Kast

Kelly

Knight

Krauss

Kubiak

Kusczak

Larson

Lauircella

Lindner

Lotocki

Lovern

McBratnie

McLennan

McLeod

Manley

Marrano

Meyers

Morgan

Nagel

Norton

Nowarkowsi

Palmer

Patterson

Perison

Petersen

Pietrykowski

Plarr

Poecking

Ponivas

Pyne

Reiford

Riffel

Ritter

Rodriguez

Rush

Sattler

Saunders

Schwartzott

Seidleck

Scott

Silvestri

Spencer

Stelmach

Stevanoff

Stiefler

Stopha

Taleff

Thiel

Tilert

Timm

Unger

VanBuskirk

Ward

Warner

Wasmund

Wick

 

Clarence Central School's "Saga"

The 1957 Saga, yearbook of Clarence Central School.  104 pages.  Below is a list of graduating class surnames for this one as well.  Interestingly, this was the first class to complete all the grades from 7 to 12 in the then-new high school building.  We're particularly impressed with the quality (and quantity) of pictures in this yearbook, from a school at the opposite end of Erie County from the Gateway school. 

We located the website of the Clarence Central School District   in a rather roundabout way.  Oddly, Google didn't seem to be able to find them for me, but the Clarence Soccer Club website produced results (looks like a first-rate soccer club, too), and a link to the high school site as well.  Clarence Central appears to offer first-rate opportunities in athletics, and, like Gateway, in music too.  In fact, Clarence has been ranked among the "Best 100 communities for Music Education" by the American Music Conference. 

The 1957 yearbook doesn't tell us what the schools were that made up the Central School District at that time, but the website (2005) advises us that their 5100 students attend four elementary schools (Clarence Center, Harris Hill, Ledgeview, and Sheridan Hill), one Middle School, and one high school, Clarence High.

This particular yearbook was evidently the property of one Margaret M. Babich, a Phys Ed teacher at the school who also coached the Water Ballet.  It contains many touching and lively inscriptions to her from her students.

 

Surnames in the Clarence Central School Class of 1957

Alderman

Andrews

Baker

Barnes

Baxter

Bergstrom

Blackmer

Blake

Blakely

Bonnett

Bordonaro

Borsink

Brauen

Brushaber

Carmer

Casey

Cherry

Christman

Cook

Cory

Culmo

Cunningham

DeMunn

Dugan

Farrell

Flesher

Frank

Geel

Goodman

Green

Grytten

Haberer

Hamann

Hatling

Helms

Hurd

Jacobs

Kamper

Kelly

Larkin

Larson

Lawton

Lenz

Lewis

Lex

Luebbert

Maddock

Martin

Marzolf

Mattison

Maybach

McLarin

McLaughlin

Mergenhagen

Metzger

Muchow

Munschauer

Norris

O’Leary

Osborn

Post

Raypach

Reich

Rhodes

Richelt

Richey

Robinson

Roneker

Ryan

Schifferle

Schomber

Sciandra

Smith

Snyder

Stark

Stevens

St. Mary

Sukman

Taylor

Torrey

Wade

Webster

Weseman

Wilson

Windnagle

Wolfe

Yockey

  • Also on the CD-ROM are various old Erie County (and Buffalo) post cards from our collection, and old topographic maps of the county.

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