Hi list, As promised here are the surnames mentioned in the Quad-City Times edition of Sun. May 23, 1976, pp. 8 & 9 D. Article by Julie Jensen entitled " Buffalo: Once It Was Gateway To The West". IN EXPLANATIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS: Robert RUDEN; Mrs. Ed RODDWIG; W.L. MILLER; Josephine HIERSMAN; Ray SCHLEDEWITZ; Ed PARENT and W.F.KAUTZ SURNAMES OF BEFFALO: Capt. Benjamin W. CLARK, 1st postmaster E.A. MIX Dr. E. PILLSBURY LYND ( a peddlar) STEPHENSON (Rock Island) Erastus H. BASSETT, 1st schoolteacher M.W. BOSWORTH, 2nd postmaster S.E. HASTINGS, JP August P. RICHTER, German-American historian ALLEN OLMSTED John COOPER wed WINNIE JANE PACE, the 1st marriage of a Buffalo resident MCMURRY, a Methodist minister from Andalusia, conducted 1st religious services HASSER's Union Band and the Wilton Cornet Band provided the music for the consecration of the Buffalo Catholic Church on June 21, 1868 Paul THIER, 1srt mine fatality in 1873 BUSINESSES: Capt. Warner Lewis CLARK, son of the town founder; ran a line of packets between Davenport & Keokuk; owned a quarter of the steamer "Uncle Toby" [Other river packets mentioned in the article were the "Helen Blair" and "Columbia".] John ROWAN, mayor in 1881 Louis SCHUH and Brother, founded saw & planing mill in 1854 Fred HOFFBAUER, started a brewery in 1864 John BARTBERGER and his son-in-law Theodore KAUTZ, "operated a smaller brewery that burned in 1881, and the HOFFBAUER brewery succumbed to prohibition a few years later." H. H. CASS started a brick and tile works in 1883 Burl FRAGER, a grocer & meat-cutter Ferdinand BALD, the commercial photographer, paperer and painter "who was the first citizen of Buffalo to live past the century mark." Adolph MURER, a bakery William PETERSEN, bought out MURER and "changed the bakery into a tavern." BOWSER Brothers button factory DORMAN's store J. MOUNTS, changed the barber shop/patent medicine store to a tonsorial parlor in 1912 Charles FRANK built many of the structures in Buffalo Hugo HOFFBAUER, a Civil War captain, had a store Max HOFFBAUER, his brother, ran a tavern and later took over the store Ed and Dan BALD had a button factory Bill COLLINS had a blacksmith shop Dominick OCHSNER had a shoe repair shop Clarence ZOGG, the postmaster, sold patent medicines at the old Knights of Pythias Hall "and the building was used as an early theater" Valentine RAUCH was a custom butcher and sausage maker John WAPSI made cigars George Cram "Jig" COOK, a truck garderer. His first wife was Mollie PRICE "COOK and his second wife, Susan GLASPEL, founded the Provincetown Players and gave the playwright Eugene O'Neill his start." Paul COOK joined his brother playing ball for the Buffalo team DOLESE brothers quarry Smith MOUNTS, an assistant to Benjamin CLARK, "removed John SHOOK's frozen toes with a mallet and chisel in 1833." SURNAMES OF MORE RECENT YEARS: Harold McCULLOUGH, Mayor in 1976 Ruby McCULLOUGH, his wife Mrs. Lelia PAGEL Elmer WRAGE Jim FARLEY, FDR's Postmaster General, visited Mrs. Emma HARRISON the granddaughter of Benjamin CLARK I hope you find some kin here. If any of you track down the 1976 PTA's bicentennial project of a coloring book of old Buffalo scenes with sketches by Cathy Whitehead, a West High School senior; or, the committee's recognition of the more than 80 houses built before 1900, I would love to locate them. I am hoping they would include the August WESTENDORF homestead on the east end of town next to the brick factory which he managed. He was my Grandfather. Jo Westendorf Banks