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Real celebrities seen on the streets of Elmira

Duc d'Orleans (Louis Phillipe, King of France), Kline Inn, 1797
Ralph Waldo Emerson, February 18, 1854
General George A. Custer, City Hotel, November 1864
Mrs. Tom Thumb, April 18, 1890
Buffalo Bill, July 19, 1899
Queen Lilioukalani, July 28, 1899
Christy Mathewson, visited his uncle on Lake Street, March 13, 1902
Maud Adams, May 17, 1902
The Liberty Bell, June 4, 1904
William Randolph Hearst, October 13, 1906
Lillian Russell, February 4, 1908
Teddy Rooselvelt, October 14, 1910
William Taft, June 11, 1919
John D. Rockefeller, June 19, 1919
Victor Herbert, May 29, 1916
Helen Keller, May 1, 1926
Miss America 1926, Norma Smallwood in Iszard's window, July 22, 1926
Jimmy Doolittle, flew under Main St. Bridge, July 1927
Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig, October 15, 1928
Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 18, 1928
Cab Calloway, May 15, 1936
Teddy Roosevelt, at the Armory, October 31, 1936
Gloria Swanson, May 23, 1946
Helen Hayes, April 1955
Ronald Reagan, 1958
Gerald Ford, October 6, 1965
Marlo Thomas, Summer of 1969
Ernest Tubbs, Pine City, July 20, 1974
Tanya Tucker, Chemung County Fair, August 10, 1974
Jerry Lee Lewis, October 4, 1984
Hillary Rodham Clinton, July 28, 1999
Bob Dylan, November 9, 2002 The coolest person EVER in Elmira
President Millard Fillmore, Mansion House, date unknown
Daniel Webster, date unknown
Stephen A. Douglas, Rathbun Hotel, date unknown
William H. Seward, date unknown



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