Matthew Ballard
[caption id="attachment_1604" align="alignnone" width="640"] The Pioneer Homestead - Historical Album of Orleans County, New York[/caption] Vol. 4, No. 10 A question recently surfaced following my last article about Elizabeth Denio,…
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Volume 4, Issue 4 As we near Black History Month in February, I was researching local African American families in Orleans County and attempting to assemble an understanding of this…
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Volume 3, Issue 41 The annals of local history are filled with stories of men who worked their way up the social ladder, starting from humble beginnings before leaving a…
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Volume 3, Issue 40 The collections within the Department of History contain newspaper clippings, genealogies, published histories, and photographs, but a number of interesting artifacts and ephemera items serve as…
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Volume 3, Issue 16 Born at Gaines in 1828 to pioneer parents, George Bullard was raised on the family farm and attended the local district schools in that township. Upon…
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Volume 2, Issue 29 Coming to Shelby in 1817, Samuel Bidelman was brought to Shelby by his Uncle John Garlock to a site cleared by Bidelman’s father during the previous…
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