Ruth McEvoy Collection 24 - Genesee County

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RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 12 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Second Baptist Church, LeRoy Colored people of LeRoy to form a Baptist Church. 9-14-1916 Received into the Baptist Fellowship. 10-12-1916 Secord, Mrs. Florence Plowe Of Hall Street. (Olive Croff used to use her to locate keys, etc.) 6-5-1951 Secord, John M. Honey Pratt and Jean Weiss say Secord invented a gadget to go on electric poles which he offered to General Electric, who said wasn't interested. Later General Electric used it anyway. Secord didn't have the money to patent his inventions at that time. Made a policy of not patenting his inventions. Went to Fraterigo's lunch cart every noon. Smoked cigars. Honey Pratt says Secord was born in St. Catherines, Ontario and brought up in Niagara Falls, NY. Did much of the woodwork in the house at 5 Lewis Avenue including leaded glass in the kitchen. Built curving stairs in a house for his son on Colonial Blvd. - one of the few brick houses on the south side of the street. The builder said the design he suggested couldn't be put into the house so he built it. Also built a beautiful rocking horse for her children which someone in the family still owns. Staircase of cherry wood - at least ball on the newell post is of cherry. She thinks a friend at Horseshoe Lake was clearing a building lot and gave him the wood. Secord had a rough cottage at Horseshoe Lake. Had to support his mother and sister when his father died about 1910. October 1986 Secord and Charles Lamkin to manufacture mineral wool pipe covering. 6-4-1887 Secord and Frank Johnson manage Lamkin & Co. - pipe and boiler works. 3-23-1888 Lamkin & Co. becomes Secord & Weeks. 1-14-1889 To sell mineral wool. 2-4-1896 See also: Batavia Industrial Co. 4-10-1896 See also: Batavia Industrial Co. 11-11-1896 See also: Batavia Industrial Co. 2-2-1897 Secretary, to act as president. 3-12-1898 To sell mineral wool. 9-9-1899 To sell mineral wool. 2-25-1901 To sell mineral wool. 10-24-1901 To sell mineral wool. 11-5-1901 To sell mineral wool. 12-5-1901 Marries Marjorie L. Volz. 6-9-1908 Putting new lighting in the Hotel Richmond. 5-18-1910 Wiring houses in Oakfield. 10-13-1913 Gets a contract for a lighting plant at the County Home. 5-29-1915 Puts electric BPOE sign on the new Elks home. 5-8-1919 Past & Present. Buys the old Perry house being moved from Jackson to School to make way 5-31-1919 the new Volz-Secord building - to remodel for a store. 1-9-1922 Building at 6 Lewis Avenue. 10-21-1922 Invents a new electric switch. 9-23-1924 Article on the use of electricity - and on John M. Secord, experienced electrician. 2-2-1926 Volz & Secord dissolved - Secord to open an electrical shop at 3 Jackson Street. 2-15-1930 Secord - Wilder wedding. Secord Electrical Shop, 8 School Street, sold on voluntary bankruptcy - to 1-22-1934 Johanna Volz, plaintiff, for $3,000. 8-25-1934 Mrs. John Secord files a petition to run Secord Electrical Shop. William Jones moves his plumbing shop from Russell Place to the Secord Shop 11-16-1934 at 5 School Street. 3-9-1935 Hit by a truck of the Flying Allens on his way to pick up the balloonists. 6-20-1938 Past & Present column: on Secord churning butter in a washing machine. 4-6-1946 Picture of the churn. 4-30-1946 Sues the City gasoline leaking under his shop impairs his health. 3-24-1941 John Secord, Jr. builds a model locomotive - picture. 9-13-1941 Picture of two boats Secord is giving the YMCA camp. 7-9-1946 Finds a black snake coiled in a farm electric motor, cutting off water pumping. 7-19-1946
RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 13 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Secord, John M. (cont) Past & Present column: on Secord multi-flowered sunflowers in his garden on Lewis Avenue - 21 on one stem. 9-28-1946 Man of many talents. Ad: Secord Electric Shop, 5 School Street "The Best is the Cheapest in the 2-20-1947 Long Run." Secord and Joseph Oliver devise a machine to shred chocolate needed in 7-23-1948 chocolate dipping. First model in Oliver's store a year ago. 6-26-1952 Past & Present column: on Secord and pop-up toasters. 1-10-1953 Trietley on the railroad model hobby of John Secord, Jr. 4-11-1953 Obit - John Secord, Jr., 43. Plant Engineer at Massey Harris. 3-7-1956 Past & Present column mentions Secord's Christmas Roses. 4-12-1959 Home from Rochester where he had an operation. 8-24-1959 Picture of Secord with a cake on his 77th. 9-28-1960 Winegar on. 9-10-1969 Never misses Kiwanis. 9-19-1970 Picture of Secord with an early telephone. 6-4-1971 Obit - 90. 9-20-1973 Mrs. John (Marjory) Secord dead at 89. 9-23-1977 Secord & Weeks Successor to Lamkin & Co. - Lamkin sells out to A. W. Weeks. The firm sells wool covering for pipes in NY, PA and eastern states and Canada. 1-14-1889 Putting patent pipe covering into the Iroquois Hotel and Hengerer Store in Buffalo. 9-10-1889 Had a $1,700 order for mineral wool. 10-17-1891 Dissolved - J. M. Seacord to buy the business. See: Seacord and Dodgson. 1-12-1892 Secord, John M., Jr. Colonial Blvd. Moved here about 5 years ago to an unfinished home which he has completed. Builds model railroad trains - Trietley article. 3-7-1965 His father, John Secord, built the staircase in his Colonial Blvd home of solid cherry - Jean Weiss says John, Jr.'s wife later Ruth Boland. Seitz, Charles Whose wife went away April 29 with Willis Tompson, taking her two daughters, 2 & 4 years old, now reunited with husband. 4-15-1913 Mrs. Seitz accused of neglecting her children. 7-2-1914 Mrs. Seitz admits neglect. 5-8-1915 Seitz, Lena Lived on Cedar Street. 10-16-1908 Miss Seitz and friend are visiting in Buffalo. 8-2-1909 To Philadelphia with Roy and Nina Mason. 3-11-1911 Mrs. J. D. Seitz to visit her daughter in Philadelphia. 5-27-1913 Marries Roy Mason. 6-16-1913 Select Collision 5273 Clinton Street Road. John Brown of to teach a coarse in car repair at GCC. 4-27-1991 Select Furniture Co. Mancusos lease a building on East Main Street built for a Chevrolet showroom to Select Furniture Co. of Buffalo. 7-10-1929 Ad: Select Furniture Co. - 7 locations. 7-9-1930 Ad: Select Furniture going out of business after 20 years. 7-11-1930 Selective Service Board Judd Perkins from the War Council to Selective Service. 10-7-1942 Budget of $1,500 suggested for. 6-21-1943 New office of Selective Service to seek protection of veteran's rights. 2-3-1944 Service pay awards for vets to be printed in the News. 2-7-1944 Men reaching 18 must register at City Hall. 8-26-1948 Seleski, J. M. Seleski and family visiting in Watertown. 9-11-1888
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