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255 The author notes, July 25, 1980, three borrowed photographs
included “Dan Hungerford with a steam engine model and
two boys”. While the author understood the photos were
borrowed by John and Joan Schatz, Joan Hungerford Schatz
said in the early 2009, “not Joan, perhaps Linda Lathrop? I
don’t recall ever having known this information that you
credit me with.”
256 Jon Elan Steen to Geoffrey N. Stein, July 30, 1992.
257 Jon Elan Steen to Geoffrey N. Stein, August 14, 1992.
258 Jim [sic] Barr, to Geoffrey N. Stein, undated (August 1992),
259 Russell Barr appears in the 1936 city directory as a Thatcher
[glass] Manufacturing Company employee residing on
Grand Central Avenue. In 1949 he was an employee of the
Dual Parking Meter Company. An obituary in the Star
Gazette reported, for June 16, 1980, that Barr had “formerly
owned and operated Barr Sales and Service.” H. Steven
Sekella told the author Barr was “a character”. He had a “lot
of stuff” outside his house as did the Hungerfords, but it was
“not as good”.
260 Daniel D. Hungerford to Robert John McIntosh, January 5,
1967.
261 Daniel D. Hungerford to Harry Steven Sekella, October 2,
1966.
262 Daniel D. Hungerford to Robert John McIntosh, January 5,
1967.
263 Quoted in the Leader, June 8, 1966.
264 Daniel D. Hungerford to Robert John McIntosh, January 5,
1967.
265 Daniel D. Hungerford to “Ed & Helen”, August 26, 1966.
266 H. Steven Sekella in telephone conversation with the author,
November 3, 2008. Sekella added that all of the Hungerford
brothers’ friends were serious about their endeavors as well
as loyal. There were “no crackpots in the bunch.”
267 H. Steven Sekella in telephone conversation with the author,
November 3, 2008. Sekella noted also that Daniel
Hungerford liked lemon sodas from the Dairy Queen drivein
restaurant on Lake Street and hot dogs from the M&M
restaurant on Baldwin Street.
268 George Mapes to Geoffrey Stein, October 25, 2009. Mapes
added French was a encyclopedia salesman. “I lost contact
with the French family around 1945/6.”
269 Daniel D. Hungerford to the New York Times, November 7,
1948.
270 The recipient was Robert John McIntosh of Port Huron,
Michigan.
271 One assumes this was Marshall Bush, the former Socialist
Party colleague. In January 1967, Hungerford noted “Mr. &
Mrs. E. Marshall Bush” lived at 16 Cornell Avenue in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
272 Leader, August 17, 1966.
273 October 20, 1966. Hungerford’s typed letter is in lower case
font (unlike most Hungerford’s all-capitalized letters). This
letter was noted by Hungerford in pen “My Copy by John
Sherman”.
274 The letter is dated October 18, 1966. In the text, Hungerford
notes, “Several weeks ago a member of our city council
called on me and wanted to know if I had received a letter
relative [to] our talk at Chemung County Fair last August [.]
I told him no [.] He said a letter from you arrived at the council.
Said letter…apparently was suppressed. Our local press
has remained silent on all my problems. Why? The Corning,
N.Y. Leader has given me good coverage all thru my troubles.
For whom Governor Rockefeller do you recomend [sic]
I cast my ballot on Nov. 8 [sic] I have but one.”
275 Daniel D. Hungerford to Robert John McIntosh, January 5,
1967.
276 Daniel D. Hungerford to “Ed & Helen”, August 26, 1966. The
author has access only to an incomplete copy of this letter.
The pages present give no definite information about anything
Mooers might have offered to do.
277 Daniel D. Hungerford to Robert John McIntosh, January 5,
1967. Several pages of names and addresses are appended to
the letter apparently as character references. Among them are
a reference to the author, to wit: “Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Stein &
Sons – 426 W 1 st St. Elmira, N.Y.” The author’s father, Aaron,
was in the scrap metal business in Elmira. Daniel
Hungerford, his brother Floyd and their acquaintances frequented
the scrap yard. The names of other scrap dealers
also are found on the list.
In 1958, Daniel Hungerford was involved as a passenger in
an automobile at Endwell. He “complained of pains in the
back and left leg but that neither [injured individuals]
required immediate medical attention.” The driver of the car
in which Hungerford sat was William Ward, age 41, of
Elmira. See the Binghamton Press, April 22, 1958.
278 For a description of the pathology of osteomyelitis see emedicine.com/emerg/topic
349.
279 Daniel D. Hungerford to “Ed & Helen”, August 26, 1966.
280 October 19, 1966.
281 Daniel D. Hungeford to Harry O. Bright, November 7, 1966
and February 7, 1967. Bright also was the surname of several
Elmirans in the 1960s; perhaps there was a connection to
Harry Bright in North Carolina.
282 Daniel D. Hungerford to Thomas A. Banfield, December 9,
1966. The capitalization is in the original. As explanation of
the “our” and “us” pronouns, Hungerford wrote, “MARVIN,
IN HIS STORY SAID – I ABSORBED, MY LATE BROTHER
FLOYD S. SPIRIT, SO I HAVE BEEN GOING ALONG WITH
THE THEORY, HENCE THE WE—-.”
283 Daniel D. Hungerford to J. E. Botsford, October 23, 1966.
284 Daniel D. Hungerford to H. Steven Sekella, October 2, 1966.
285 Linda Lathrop to Geoffrey Stein via email, September 29,
2008.
286 Jon Elan Steen to Geoffrey Stein, August 24, 1992.
287 September 11, 1994. Peg Gallagher, writing in the Elmira
Sunday Telegram, February 3, 1980, reported that at his death,
Hungerford’s home was 312 E. Third Street.
288 H. Steven Sekella to Geoffrey Stein via telephone, September
25, 2008.
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