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Diane Janowski
Jun 203 min read
Mark Twain Walking Around
By Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian Historians sometimes lie awake at night, thinking about things. I spent several nights this week...
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Diane Janowski
Jun 183 min read
Louis Leon, Captive at the Elmira Prison Camp
By Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian Louis Leon was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on November 27, 1841. Louis and his German-born...
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Diane Janowski
Jun 182 min read
Matthias Hollenback - Elmira’s First Merchant
by Diane Janowski Matthias Hollenback was born on February 15, 1752, in either Virginia or Jonestown, Pennsylvania, depending on the...
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Diane Janowski
Jun 183 min read
Matron Bruner of City Hall
By Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian I do a lot of research using old Star-Gazette newspapers. One of the names I often see is Police...
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Diane Janowski
Jun 84 min read
A Terrible Day
By Diane Janowski On July 27, 1891, forty-year-old Reverend Wellington White and family were on sabbatical from their lives as Christian...
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Diane Janowski
Jun 83 min read
Frank Buchanan Converse, Banjo Player
By ©Diane Janowski Last year, someone asked if I knew anything about an Elmiran named Frank Converse. Instantly, I thought of sneakers....
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Diane Janowski
Jun 84 min read
We had a Millionaire in my Neighborhood
By©Diane Janowski, all rights reserved You know that I love mystery photos. I recently acquired this one marked “J.H. Clark” with a...
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