This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. The First Citizen of Buffalo. After his overwhelming defeat, in the election of 1856, which he took very philosophically, Mr. Fillmore reconstructed his home and settled down to be a model expresident. For a generation he was "the first citizen of Buffalo," though from the beginning of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. The First Citizen of Buffalo. After his overwhelming defeat, in the election of 1856, which he took very philosophically, Mr. Fillmore reconstructed his home and settled down to be a model expresident. For a generation he was "the first citizen of Buffalo," though from the beginning of his manhood he had been foremost among the lovers of ' the Lake City.' During his legal practice and his Congressional career, his home was on Franklin street. The house, a twostoried white building, had a row of trees in front. Lake Erie was but a short distance away. "It was the home of industry and temperance, with plain diet; no tobacco, no swearing." Before entering a new house, he made first a home by a second marriage. On March 10th, 1858, in Albany, the DEGREESu-vj' Rev. Dr. Hague officiating, in the same room in the Schuyler mansion in which Alexander Hamilton made Elizabeth Schuyler his bride, Mr. Fillmore was married to Mrs. Caroline Mcintosh, widow of Ezekiel C. Mcintosh, one of the prominent men of business in Albany and a man of high personal worth. The house in Buffalo, which the ex-president purchased was on ground which first belonged to the Holland Land Company. In 1853, John Hollister found a white building standing on this site, the Delaware Avenue side being ornamented with a row of tall poplars. Here, on a slight eminence, he built his home, in the style of the Tudor Gothic. Within, the heavy moldings and ornamentation of Queen Elizabeth's era still remain to attest the taste and wealth of the first occupant. The house fronted Niagara Square and near by, as neighbors, were the Hawleys, Salisburys, Havens, Burtices, Austins, Babcocks, Seymours, Wilkesons, Sizers, and others. Here Mr. Hollister lived until the financial...
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