History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County

Volume 1: Erie County

Henry Perry Smith

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2026
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783693430156
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

When this monumental work first appeared in 1884, it set out to capture nothing less than the entire arc of a region's rise — from primeval wilderness on the Niagara frontier to one of the great commercial cities of the American republic. More than a century later, Henry Perry Smith's two-volume History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County remains the indispensable account of how that transformation happened. Volume I traces the long history of Erie County itself: the land of the Iroquois and the Seneca, the centuries of contested French and English dominion, the surveys of the Holland Land Company, and the first hardy settlers who carved farms from the forest. Here too is the fire and fury of the War of 1812 — the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, and the burning of Buffalo — followed by the county's emergence and the regiments it sent to the Union cause. Volume II turns to the city: Buffalo before the war, its rebirth as village and then as a booming metropolis on the Erie Canal. Smith chronicles the lake commerce and the towering grain elevators that made Buffalo a hub of the nation, its German community, its churches, presses, hospitals and celebrated park system, and the merchants, jurists and pioneers whose lives are preserved in his richly detailed biographical sketches.

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I. THE SUBJECT.
• CHAPTER II. ERIE COUNTY IN 1820
• CHAPTER III. FROM 1620 TO 1655.
• CHAPTER IV. THE IROQUOIS.
• CHAPTER V. FROM 1655 TO 1679.
• CHAPTER VI. FRENCH DOMINION.
• CHAPTER VII. ENGLISH DOMINION
• CHAPTER VIII. FROM 1783 TO 1788
• CHAPTER IX. THE COUNCIL.
• CHAPTER X. FROM 1788 TO 1797.
• CHAPTER XI. SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT.
• CHAPTER XII. FROM 1802 TO 1807
• CHAPTER XIII. RE-ORGANIZATION
• CHAPTER XIV. PIONEERS AND INDIANS.
• CHAPTER XV. FROM 1808 TO THE WAR.
• CHAPTER XVI. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1812.
• CHAPTER XVII. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813.
• CHAPTER XVIII. SWORD AND FIRE.
• CHAPTER XIX. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1814.
• CHAPTER XX. FROM THE WAR TO THE DIVISION OF THE COUNTY.
• CHAPTER XXI. FROM FORMATION OF ERIE COUNTY UNTIL 1830.
• CHAPTER XXII. FROM 1831 TO 1840.
• CHAPTER XXIII. FROM 1841 TO 1860.
• CHAPTER XXIV. DURING AND SINCE THE UNION WAR.
• CHAPTER XXV. TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY AND OTHER REGIMENTS,
• CHAPTER XXVI. FORTY-NINTH INFANTRY AND OTHER REGIMENTS,
• CHAPTER XXVII. ONE HUNDRETH INFANTRY
• CHAPTER XXVIII. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH INFANTRY AND OTHER REGIMENTS
• CHAPTER XXIX. CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS.
• CHAPTER XXX. THE CITIZEN SOLDIERY.
• CHAPTER XXXI. THE ERIE CANAL.
• CHAPTER XXXII. RAILROADS.
• CHAPTER XXXIII. ERIE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
• CHAPTER XXXIV. COUNTY BUILDINGS
• CHAPTER XXXV. CIVIL LIST.
• CHAPTER XXXVI. GEOLOGY OF ERIE COUNTY.
• CHAPTER XXXVII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF NEWSTEAD.
• CHAPTER XXXVIII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CLARENCE.
• CHAPTER XXXIX. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF AMHERST
• CHAPTER XL. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF TONAWANDA,
• CHAPTER XLI. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GRAND ISLAND.
• CHAPTER XLII. A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF ALDEN.
• CHAPTER XLIII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LANCASTER
• CHAPTER XLIV. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CHEEKTOWAGA
• CHAPTER XLV. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MARILLA.
• CHAPTER LXVI. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF ELMA
• CHAPTER XLVII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WEST SENECA.
• CHAPTER XLVIII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
• CHAPTER XLIX. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF EAST HAMBURG.
• CHAPTER L. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF AURORA.
• CHAPTER LI. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WALES.
• CHAPTER LII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF EVANS.
• CHAPTER LIII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF EDEN.
• CHAPTER LIV. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON.
• CHAPTER LV. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF COLDEN.
• CHAPTER LVI. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF HOLLAND.
• CHAPTER LVII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SARDINIA.
• CHAPTER LVIII. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF BRANT.
• CHAPTER LIX. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD
• CHAPTER LX. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF COLLINS.
• CHAPTER LXI. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH COLLINS.
• CHAPTER LXII. PERSONAL SKETCHES.
• BRIEF PERSONALS.