Don't forget some of the native New Yorkers I've covered in my scripts on
the western Great Lakes:

Charles C. Hale of St. Lawrence County: Kansas City fire chief who created
the Pleasure Railway, using film to simulate a train trip, at the 1904
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

Eleazar Williams: Part French, part Mohawk, Episcopalian preacher who
migrated to Wisconsin's Green Bay region and claimed to be the Lost Dauphin.

Charles Courtney: Union Springs carpenter who had won the amateur rowing
championship at Philadelphia in 1876.

John Wesley Carhart: Albany County entrepreneur and Methodist minister who,
at the age of 17 devised a miniature steam yacht which he tried out on the
Hudson River then transferred to Racine, Wisconsin and built a
steam-powered vehicle he called The Spark, a precursor of the automobile.

Waters Towslee of Hannibal, Sidney Roberts of Cazenovia, and Charles W.
Turner of Sterling: Land speculators who chose the site for Kenosha,
Wisconsin.

William Butler Ogden of Walton: Chicago's first mayor.

George M. Pullman of Brocton - Imported to Chicago by Ogden to help raise
the city's buildings for a new sewer system.

Lesser known but still of interest.

And let us not forget Francis C. Pollay, creator of the rickshaw.

Full stories supplied on request.

David

David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Pittsford, New York
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