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Sep 6, 2020 Biographies

In December 2018 Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes was elevated to the position of Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly. Peoples-Stokes has served Buffalo's 141st Assembly District sin...

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Beverly Rennick Gray

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Sep 4, 2020 Biographies

Beverly A. Gray was born Beverly A. Rennick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1950. She was the youngest daughter of William and Bertha Rennick. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York, in 1958. She ...

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Marshall Davis Miles

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Aug 14, 2020 Biographies

Marshall Davis Miles was born in Demopolis, Alabama in 1905. He was one of six children of Hattie Marshall Miles and Walter Miles. He came to Buffalo as a child in 1919 and attended Hutchinson Central...

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Susan Evans

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Aug 4, 2020 Biographies

Susan Evans was a college-educated social worker who attended higher education in Chicago and trained at a settlement house there. She was a member of the Chicago organization, the Civic League of Chi...

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Zellie Dow, Sr.

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Jul 15, 2020 Biographies

Zellie Dow, Sr. was a longtime Buffalo business owner. He was born in Camden. South Carolina. He moved to Buffalo in the early 1930s. He opened and operated the city's first black owned automobile col...

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Harriet Price Jacobson

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Jul 15, 2020 Biographies

Harriet Price was born in Lexington, Kentucky and was raised in Kinsley, Kansas, where her father was a prosperous businessman. In addition to being a rancher and stockman, he also owned a livery stab...

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Ivorite Larimer Scruggs MD

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Jun 30, 2020 Biographies

Ivorite Larimer Scruggs was born on August 4, 1890 in the state of Mississippi. His parents were James and Kayte Scruggs. Dr. Scruggs received both his BA Degree in 1915 and his medical degree four ye...

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Clara Louise Payne

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Jun 19, 2020 Biographies

Clara Louise Payne was a member of an old established Buffalo family. Her father, Thomas W. Payne was a native of Richmond, Virginia and worked as an office clerk according to the 1920 census. Her mot...

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Charles A. Dickson

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May 31, 2020 Biographies

In a 1913 newspaper article Charles A. Dickson described his parents in warm and loving terms. He wrote that his mother, Phoebe Ann Lane Dickson was "a witty and well-educated woman". A native of Alba...

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Wardner H. Jones

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May 31, 2020 Biographies

Wardner H. Jones was a native of Powell, Pennsylvania. His parents were Henry Jones and Elizabeth A. Dorsey Jones. His siblings were Secue, Liston, Leeland, Katherine and Martin. Mr. Jones lived in Fl...

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Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey

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Apr 25, 2020 Biographies

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilhelmina McAlpin was raised and educated in Buffalo. She was married to William Godfrey, Jr., for fifty-eight years and they had one child, Carol Godfrey Wing. Sh...

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Willie Brown Seals

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Apr 19, 2020 Biographies

Willie Brown Seals, who preferred to be known by his initials, W.B., was born on November 22, 1910 in the rural community of Bayou Rapides, near Alexandria, Louisiana. He was the eldest child and only...

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