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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Roy U. Dixon was born April 27, 1918 in Buffalo, New York. His parents were Edward and Christina Dixon and Roy had three siblings, Ira, Genevieve and Dorothy. Roy was baptized as an infant in St. Phil...

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Ira Dixon

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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Mr. Dixon was a prominent photographer and for many years, was one of the Challenger newspaper staff photographers. Mr. Dixon was affectionately known as "Soap" to his close friends who had known him ...

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Claude D. Clapp

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Feb 10, 2018 Biographies

Claude D. Clapp, the son of Marguerite Mason Clapp Shannon and Claude D. Clapp, was born in Buffalo, New York. He attended Buffalo Public Schools and, for one year, Central High School in Louisville, ...

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Franklin Cecil Brown

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Feb 6, 2018 Biographies

Mr. Brown, better known as F. Cecil Brown was the son of Charles and Alice Brown. His parents were natives of Jamaica and immigrated in 1913. Cecil was born circa 1918. He attended Buffalo Schools and...

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Irenas Johnson Palmer

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Feb 4, 2018 Biographies

On February 20, 1842 Irenas Johnson Palmer was born in Hinsdale, New York. His parents were Mr. Mrs. Hannibal Palmer. In 1863, at the age of 21 he went to Boston, Mass. to join the Fifth Regiment Mass...

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Betty Gwendolyn Greene

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Dec 4, 2017 Biographies

Betty Gwendolyn Greene, who preferred B. Gwendolyn, is a native Buffalonian who attended local public schools. Although her first name is Betty, she was named after her maternal grandmother, Ms. Green...

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Earle Clifford Payne DDS

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Dec 1, 2017 Biographies

Earle C. Payne was a member of an early Buffalo Black family. His mother, Grace L. Thompson was the daughter of Nimrod Thompson, who came to Buffalo around 1850. Her mother was Elizabeth Meyers. Grace...

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Madeline Easley Scott

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Nov 14, 2017 Biographies

Madeline Scott is a native of Olean, New York, who moved to Buffalo in 1958. She is the daughter of Mrs. Lois Easley, another Uncrowned Queen. Mrs. Scott is a graduate of Empire State College and has ...

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Lanora Glasby Robinson

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Sep 4, 2017 Biographies

Lanora Robinson was a member of an early Buffalo family, who settled in Buffalo in the early to mid- 1800s. She was born on June 4, 1906 in Buffalo, New York. Her parents were Madeline Payne Glasby Mi...

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Lloyd James Hargrave

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Aug 7, 2017 Biographies

Lloyd James Hargrave was born on August 31, 1939 in Buffalo, New York. He was tenth in the birth order of Annie and Ashley Hargrave's eleven children. He was educated in the Buffalo Public School Syst...

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Madeline Payne Glasby Middleton

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Aug 5, 2017 Biographies

Madeline Payne Glasby Middleton was a member of an old established Buffalo family. She was born circa April 1887. Her father, Thomas W. Payne was a native of Richmond, Virginia and worked as an office...

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Gregory K. Brown

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Aug 3, 2017 Biographies

Gregory K. Brown, a community leader and activist, was born on December 2, 1948. He was the son of Cecil and Sylvia Consuela Brown. He was a well-known peace activist and environmentalist. A native of...

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