A Gowanda Timeline

June 26, 1852 - The Independent Chronicle established. H.M. Morgan, publisher; L.S. Morgan, editor.

1868 - The post office relocates to the F.E. Redfield store.

May 1877 - The Murphy temperance movement "strikes" Gowanda.

1890 - Gowanda Fire Chief - J. Peter Brueck.

1898 ad - S.M. Trademark Pocket Knives. The best in the world. Write for catalogue. New York Cutlery Co., Gowanda, NY.

May 1, 1898 - Frank H. Bailey of Gowanda and graduate of the Annapolis, MD Naval Academy, is the chief engineer of the "Raleigh," one of the Asiatic squadron vessels that captured the Spanish fleet at Manila, in Phillippine Islands during the war with Spain.

1898 - Doctors practicing in Gowanda: Horace Babcock, Corydon C. Johnson, J.G. Rugg, Albert D. Lake, John D. Zwetsch, Burnell R. Johnson, Walter Vosburgh.

1898 - Gowanda Village Board members: Henry R. Gaensslen, president; Samuel lnskip, E.A. Shaw, Charles J. Straub, Frank M. Davis, trustees; Fred E. Place, clerk; R.A. Noblett, street commissioner.

1909 recipe from Mrs. R.E. Congdon: Tomatoes and Eggs - Three eggs, butter size of a walnut, one-half can tomatoes, one half of a small onion cut in fine pieces, small tablespoonful of flour, salt and red pepper to taste. Stir the tomatoes and onions together for five minutes, then stir in the butter and flour made into a paste. Add eggs that have been broken into a bowl and stirred lightly with a fork. Add seasoning, then stir constantly until rather thick and take away from fire and serve at once. Serve on hot buttered toast.

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