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Westville, NY
Westville Westville was established in 1829, and was known as West Constable unitl it became its own town. The town is partially on the Canadian border. Westville was and is primarily a farming community, with flat tillable fields and rich soil. Westville is in the St. Lawrence Valley. The Salmon River runs through Westville fields, where…
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Mr. Lawrence M. Holden 1911-2000
Mr. & Mrs Lawrence M Holden of Fort Covington, NY by Ms. Lisa Cousineau – 1998 The interview began at a dinner my mother had planned for her cousin Mr. Lawrence Holden, before he was to return home. He is eighty-seven years old and lives with his son, Carl, in Rochester during the…
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Henry Langlois Family Gallery
Henry Langlois Family Gallery Family photo of the Henry and Delia Premo Family [flagallery gid=17 name=”Gallery”]
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Orville Langlois Family Gallery
Orville Langlois Family Gallery This is a new gallery and some of the images will require further work to make them clearer and better. Many were small and very old snapshots and do not blow up well and so will need to be reformatted. Over time we will work on this and adding more…
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Archives & Genealogy – Langlois Family
The Orville Langlois Family Genealogy (There are a large number of other family members that are not in this genealogy. We have their names and birthdates, but not their parentage. Please feel free to let us know any information you have on this.) [Perhaps Amos, who was a mortar and worked at the Hines and…
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Mr. George Russell
Tape 1 Track 1 Mr. Russell describes growing up in Westville, NY in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. List of Farmers in Westville, ca 1900. Description of Westville Center, NY and businesses at the end of the 19th century, including a gristmill, starch factory, sawmill, barrel maker, blacksmith shops. Childhood games…
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Mr. W. Orville Langlois
Mr. W. Orville Langlois 1877-1975 Orville Langlois was W. Langlois’s great-grandfather. When he was growing up, Orville came to stay with his family, and built a large garage for the family. At that time Orville would have been in his early 80’s. He was a small vigorous man. Soon after, Mr. Langlois and Mr. McGowan began interviewing…
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Miss Ola Stockwell
Tape Number 83 & 107 TAPE 1 Track 1 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio Centralization of educational system in 1954;home life; growing up in Westville; automobile transportation;Presbyterianchurch service. Track 2 Click on Audio link to listen to interview: Audio The Ladies’ Society; church service and religion; antagonism between Protestants and Catholics;…
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Mr. & Mrs George H. Chapman
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Chapman 1891-1977 & Katherine M. Cushman, His Wife 1912- 1989 GEORGE CHAPMAN APPROX 1922 Tape 104 Tape 1 Side 1 Growing up and family life; early settlement of the area;house design and living standards;…