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    Famous Residents Lewis Allen Dr. Ida Catherine Bender Louis L. Berger, Sr. Dorothy Goetz Berlin John Blocher Wilson S. Bissell Al Boasberg Willis Haviland Carrier George Cary Shirley Chisholm George Clinton Dr. Frederick Cook Jessica Brown Cornelius Joseph Dart August Esenwein Millard Fillmore Millard Powers Fillmore Mary Abigail Fillmore Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore Frank H. Goodyear Erastus Granger Charles W. Goodyear William Hengerer Katharine Pratt Horton Kathleen Howard Red Jacket Rick James Mary Elizabeth Johnson Rev. Leeland Newton Jones Jr. Edward Austin Kent Irvine Kittinger Edward Kleinhans Seymour H. Knox II Northrup Knox William P. Letchworth Daniel Lockwood Maria Love Brigadier General Albert Myer John R. Oishei Dr. Roswell Park Ely Parker George N. Pierce Samuel F. Pratt George Rand Mary Jane Rathbun Major General Bennet Riley Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs Aaron Rumsey Rev. Willie Brown Seals John N. Scatcherd Jacob Schoellkopf Col. George H. Selkirk Prince Kyril Scherbatow Sidney Shepard Elvin J. “Shep” Shepherd William J. Simon Jr Annie Singleton Rev. Bennett Smith, Jr. Alfred P. Southwick Elbridge Spaulding Margaret St. John Victoria Sutherland Mary Burnett Talbert Edwin R. Thomas Charles Townsend Margaret L. Wendt America Pinckney Peter Williams William Fargo Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz William Buchanan Charles Reidpath Lawrence Bell John E. Brent James Tillinghast Ehrhardt Koch

    Aaron Rumsey

    Prominent business leader

    Aaron Rumsey died on April 8, 1864.  Mr. Rumsey was born in Hubbardstown, Vermont, in 1797.  His brother Calvin had left home and settled in Warsaw where he set up and operated a tannery.  Aaron eventually joined him.  He married Sophia Phelps in 1819.   They had two sons, Bronson Case, Dexter Phelps, and one daughter—Eleanor.  The family came to Buffalo in 1832. There, Mr. Rumsey established a tannery located on the south side of the Main and Hamburg Streets canal, near Alabama Street.  Over time, he built  other tanneries throughout WNY.  This was a lucrative business.  Hides shipped down Lake Erie from the West sold cheap in the Buffalo market.  As a consequence tanneries multiplied, and the manufacture of leather thrived.  By 1835 at least every town in the county [Erie] had a tannery, some two or three.  In 1838, Rumsey took on as a partner George Howard. The result was Rumsey & Howard.  But after Howard left, Aaron took on his sons, Bronson and Dexter, who had been clerking for him, as partners in Aaron Rumsey & Company.  Its Buffalo operation was on Exchange Street across from the Central Station.  When their father died in 1864, the Rumsey brothers inherited the company and turned A. Rumsey & Company into one of the leading leather firms in the United States.  The business was eventually absorbed by the United States Leather Company in 1893.  The brothers invested much of their fortune into real estate in the City of Buffalo.  It is said that at one point, they owned 22 of the 43 square miles that comprised Buffalo.  Aaron Rumsey is buried in section X in Forest Lawn

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