Chemung History
Elmira, New York

By Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian Historians sometimes lie awake at night, thinking about things. I spent several nights this week...

By Diane Janowski, Elmira City Historian Louis Leon was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on November 27, 1841. Louis and his German-born...

by Diane Janowski Matthias Hollenback was born on February 15, 1752, in either Virginia or Jonestown, Pennsylvania, depending on the...

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...

By Diane Janowski On July 27, 1891, forty-year-old Reverend Wellington White and family were on sabbatical from their lives as Christian...

By ©Diane Janowski Last year, someone asked if I knew anything about an Elmiran named Frank Converse. Instantly, I thought of sneakers....

By©Diane Janowski, all rights reserved You know that I love mystery photos. I recently acquired this one marked “J.H. Clark” with a...