Extracts from letters by Mary M. Beebe McKay, [ca. 1888].

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Extracts from letters by Mary M. Beebe McKay, [ca. 1888].

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Extracts from letters written, ca. 1888, to Eliza Mary Hatch Edwards by Mary M. Beebe McKay, recounting incidents told her by her mother, Rosalie Harris Beebe, an early Buffalo settler. Mrs. Beebe recalls Red Jacket, Benjamin Rathbun, Oliver Forward, Peter B. Porter, and others in the village of Buffalo prior to 1832.

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Rathbun, Benjamin, 1790-1873.

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Buffalo, N.Y. businessman and entrepreneur. Began his career as proprietor of Buffalo's Eagle Tavern in 1821. Accused, with his brother Lyman and two nephews, of forging endorsements, tried twice, convicted in 1838, and sentenced to serve five years in the state prison. He returned to Buffalo, but later moved to New York City, where he kept the Broadway Hotel, at the corner of Broadway and Forty-Second Street. He died in Fort Washington, N.Y. on 19 July 1873. From the description of ...

Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830

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David Thompson was the postmaster, contractor's agent and commissary at Fort Niagara Garrison, New York, 1797-1804. From the description of Red Jacket's speech : Buffalo Creek manuscript 1802-1804 Sept. 28, 1803. (Tulsa City-County Library). WorldCat record id: 262845953 Red Jacket was a Seneca chief who was born ca. 1756 at or near Canoga, Seneca County, New York. He remained faithful to the British during the Revolutionary War. In 1792 he visited P...

Forward, Oliver.

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Beebe, Rosalie Harris, 1788-1888.

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Porter, Peter B. (Peter Buell), 1773-1844

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Porter was a member of the New York State Legislature, a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York State, a major general in the War of 1812, and United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829. He was a strong supporter of the Whig Party. From the description of Letter, 1839 February 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145407205 Congressman, general of New York State Militia during the War of 1812, and partner in Porter, Barton & Company. ...

Edwards, Eliza Mary Hatch.

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Eliza Mary Hatch Edwards was the eldest grandchild of Rosalie Samuel Peters and Rosalie Harris Beebe. Mary M. Beebe McKay was the Beebes' youngest daughter. From the description of Extracts from letters by Mary M. Beebe McKay, [ca. 1888]. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 59760998 ...

McKay, Mary M. Beebe

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