Many thanks. I had already checked out these sites and they're very interesting. My father was a chemist for Allied Signal and had grown up on Maurice St., just a couple blocks away. My great grandfather lived on Babcock, a few blocks behind Maurice. I'm intrigued with my Great grandfather's occupation. I was wondering if anyone would mind checking the Buffalo City Directory for 1891 and let me know if there is such a company as Buffalo Chemical Company and its address. The 1891 article, speaks of an accident my great grandfather had, falling off a wagon he was operating. He was taken to No. 7 Station and attended by Dr. E. J. Murphy and removed to Finch Hospital. It would be great if some one could tell me about the station and where the hospital was located. I live in Connecticut and it's a bit difficult to get to your great collection in the Buffalo Erie County Public Library. Many thanks, Cindy ---------- >From: Roots Webmaster <roots@bfn.org> >To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NYERIE] Teamster, Buffalo Chemical Company >Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2005, 2:24 PM > > > National Aniline Co. was originally named Schoellkopf Aniline Co. See: > > http://www.epa.gov/region02/waste/fsbuffal.pdf > > I suspect that there is no connection between Buffalo Chemical and > National Aniline, unless National Aniline bought out Buffalo Chemical at > some point. > > Here's a neighborhood tour: > > http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~gardella/sbtour.htm > > Hope this helps! > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Cynthia Christ wrote: > >> My great grandfather worked as a Teamster for decades, about 1890 to the >> 1920s. The US Census, generically said he worked for a chemical company. I >> just found a 1891 newspaper article that stated he worked for Buffalo >> Chemical Company. The family lived on Babcock and Seneca St. area for >> decades. >> >> I've been trying to learn as much as I can about this company, without any >> luck. I've spent a lot of time on Google and in BuffaloResearch.com. Could >> this company have later become National Aniline? > > -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- > Webmaster: Cynthia Van Ness, MLS -- roots AT bfn DOT org > Buffalo Roots: Genealogy & Family History in Buffalo, NY > http://www.buffaloresearch.com/roots.html > > > > ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> > See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

Hi Cindy, >I'm intrigued with my Great grandfather's occupation. I was wondering if >anyone would mind checking the Buffalo City Directory for 1891 and let me >know if there is such a company as Buffalo Chemical Company and its address. > >The 1891 article, speaks of an accident my great grandfather had, falling >off a wagon he was operating. He was taken to No. 7 Station and attended by >Dr. E. J. Murphy and removed to Finch Hospital. It would be great if some >one could tell me about the station and where the hospital was located. The 1891 directory lists: Buffalo Chemical Works (Theo V Fowler, president), office Abbott road near iron bridge. A check of the online 1894 map, reachable at: http://www.buffaloresearch.com scroll down to Maps, click on Buffalo 1894 shows a large establishment on Abbott's Corners Road (today's South Park Ave) just north of the bridge across the Buffalo river. There were at least 10 buildings on the site, some 2 story brick, others 1 story brick or frame. The plant had its own railroad siding. Police Station No. 7 was at the corner of Louisiana and Elk sts. (Elk is here called South Park today.) This station is about 1.5 miles from the chemical plant. Finch Hospital was in a large building on the Southwest corner of Swan St and Michigan Ave. The directory listing was: Fitch Accident Hospital, Room 14, Fitch Institute Bldg, Swan corner Michigan. Under the direction of a committee of the Charity Organization Society. Another occupant of the building was the Fitch Creche, likely the oldest day care center in the United States. It was founded in 1880 by Maria Love, a child of wealthy parents, who wished to provide care for children of single and widowed mothers who had to work for a living. Miss Love is well known in Buffalo, even though she died in 1931. There is still an annual event called the Children's Charity Ball to benefit the Maria M. Love Convelescent Fund. I remember attending one or two of these in the early 1940s. She figures prominently in the novel "City of Light", but don't believe everything said about her there. E. J. Murphy did not appear in the directory listing of physicians. George