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More about Bill Passmore

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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyoswego/biographies/snellpt2.html   Biographical Sketch of Bertrande H. Snell Parish, Oswego Co., NY Many thanks to Richard Palmer for contributing this wonderful and very interesting Biographical Sketch on Bertrande H. Snell. A fascinating history you won't want to miss. Richard Palmer at:     Syracuse Post-Standard, March 23, 1947   Just Around the Corner - By Bertrande Snell            ____     On a warm evening of the early summer of 1905, Wilfred( William?) Passmore   and I arrived in Buffalo from the west. We had been telegraphing in the southwest for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad and were on our way home, each with about $300 in bills tucked away in one of our shoes, nestling comfortably between skin and sock.   Unfortunately, we got into Buffalo rather late in the evening and decided to stay ...

Wilfred-vs William Passmore

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  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~twigs2000/rrcutestories.html   Found on the Internet   ( Kitty) Stories by "Bertrande" from the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post Standard     Syracuse Post-Standard, Aug. 29, 1948   Just Around the Corner By Bertrand H. Snell     “- And this the sorrowful story, “That’s told as the twilight falls; "While the monkeys are walking together. “Holding each others¹ tails!"          --Kipling   I wish I knew what has become of my old friend, Wilfred Henry Passmore . And, if any of you folks, out there, know where he is, show him the above quatrain and he’ll immediately recognize it as our ‘theme song’ during the years we were together.   I first met ‘Passy’ in Ansonia, in 1905. He and I went to work for the old Fall Brook division of the New York Central on the same day in October of that year.. At that ti...

Tobacco Farming in Lindley,N.Y.

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Tobacco Farming and Tobacco Barns in Lindley, New York  by Catherine M. Pierce                       Fall 2007-Winter 2008       About CLRCurrent IssueIndexMuseumsAuthorsSite MapContact Us              Tobacco Farming and Tobacco Barns       in Lindley, New York       1864 to 1949       by       Catherine M. Pierce (Numbers at end of sentences refer to the bibliography.)         The Guidelines for the Local Historian published by the New York State         Department of Education states “The Local Government Historian is both         an advocate for historic preservation and...

Merry Christmas 2014

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                                                                                                     From a "Penny" Post Card                                                             Merry Christmas...

Changes in Lindley

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2009 1989 Built 1898 Trivia   --    A FEW CHANGES IN LINDLEY 1790-2004   Land – Farms-- Homes   1790         Wilderness –First   settlers arrive- Build first log cabins, plant small fields of grain               Oxen are used to plow fields   1855         Fields are larger –small dairy farms grow apples, grain --- Horses are replacing the oxen for preparing fields--   Homes are changing from log to frame ( boards for homes are being sawed in the many sawmills)                                                 1875      ...