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7
Keith Marvin, “The Wizards of West Second Street” manuscript
version, pp.10–11. Unfortunately, there is no explanation
of the new mathematics.
8
Marvin, “The Wizards of West Second Street.”
9
See Chapter 5, “Politics.”
10 Daniel D. Hungerford to “Ed and Helen”, August 26, 1966.
11 Undated, unidentified newspaper clip.
12 Keith Marvin in the manuscript version of his “The Wizards
of West Second Street”, p. 8, says the Hungerfords returned
to Elmira in 1905.
13 Newark, New Jersey city directories from 1911 through 1914
have no listings for an American Thermostat Company or for
Daniel Hungerford. There is an American Transformer
Company, a manufacturer of electrical apparatus.
14 Daniel Hungerford in 1966 wrote that Mary Hungerford and
all four of her children purchased the house for $1,100. He
added that the “sister house” to the west was purchased by
the “Harders from Adison [sic], N.Y. a year or 2 later.” A third
house, at number 829, was built later. His brother William
moved a house from Guinnip Avenue to the rear of the lot at
819 West Second Street. He lived there for “several years.
Some of his children were born there. W.J.H. later turned the
[sic] (819) in as first payment on a farm at Caton, N.Y.” Daniel
D. Hungerford to “Ed & Helen”, August 26, 1966. Directory
listings confirm William’s residence at 819 West Second
Street in 1914 through 1917, when he was employed at the
Hotel Rathbun.
15 City directory listings for 1897 show William S. Love, a solicitor
for the New York and Pennsylvania Telephone and
Telegraph Company, residing at 823 West Second Street and
Henry Pelham, a carpenter, at 827 West Second. The 1896
directory shows Pelham living at 816 W. Gray Street and no
Love listing.
16 The agent likely is Edward J. Dunn (1866-1927). The Elmira
Advertiser, October 24, 1927, notes Dunn worked at the Arnot
Real Estate office in the 1880s. Later Dunn was an executor of
the Mathias H. Arnot Estate, See below for a story of the
Dunn funeral.
17 Daniel D. Hungerford to “Ed & Helen”, August 26, 1966.
18 Daniel Hungerford in a letter to “Ed & Helen”, August 26,
1966, noted that when his family moved to the Second Street
house, “it was [numbered] 825 - at the time and changed to
823 – later”.
19 Daniel Hungerford in a letter to Keith Marvin, July 15, 1964,
described the construction of the garage around 1917.
20 Daniel Hungerford, August 26, 1966. Charles A. Osman, a
carpenter, rode in the Hungerford rocket car in 1934. See
below.
21 Erwin D. French to Paul Edward Garber, December 30, 1967.
Chapter One: Early Years 5