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ALLEGANY COUNTY, NY - BOOKSHELF

BOOKS ABOUT, FOR & BY

ALLEGANIANS

This list can grow only with your help;  If you know of a book to list here, EMAIL RON TAYLOR

TITLE OF PUBLICATION AUTHOR COMMENTS PUBLISHER
A History --Commemorating the Centennial of the Incorporation of the Village of Canaseraga, NY 1892-1992 Compiled by Renee Coombs & Marjorie Dieter Mastin   The Amity Press - Belmont, NY - November 1992
A History of Cuba Cheese Edwin & Velma Moses Dated 1977 Cuba Cheese Company, 1980, 1982
A River Ramble Arch Merrill "Even my best friends laughed when I said I was going to walk the entire length of the Genesee River on my vacation."  
Alfred, History of the Town of C. R. Clawson January 1, 1926 Alfred Sun
Allegany Beckons     Allegany County Officeof Economic Development; Belmont, NY
Allegany County and Its People: A Centennial Memorial HISTORY OF ALLEGANY COUNTY,NY John S. Minard

County History

W.A.Fergusson & Co., Alfred,NY, 1896
Allegany County in The 20th Century: Stories of Change Compiled by Craig R. Braack, County Historian Available at several locations and from County Historian Office. 2006- order form
Allegany's Uncommon Folk Helene C. Phelan 1978 Sun Publishing Company; Alfred, NY
Alma Story, The - 1795-1850 Hazel M. Shear 1959 Published by the Author

Republished-by Benson Smythe Publishing --Wellsville, NY 14895

Alma Story, The - PART II - 1850-1900 Hazel M. Shear 1960 Published by the Author

Republished-by Benson Smythe Publishing --Wellsville, NY 14895

Almond Story, The Reynolds reprinted 2006 Available online from the website of Almond Historical Society
An Indian Parliament House and Its Last Council-Fire John Stearns Minard   unknown
And Why Not Every Man? Helene C. Phelan  It's a book on the Underground Railroad through the southern tier area and there are several detailed stories of Allegany County residents who assisted fugitive slaves. I strongly recommend it to individuals who are not only interested in Allegany County history,
but also would like insight on the amazing underground railroad network. It is available at the Belmont library.  (& most local libraries of the county) Ted Seeley-1987
Heart of the Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY 14847
Andover SesquiCentennial Committee June 1, 1974 Andover News
Angelica Collectanea L.L.Stillwell Now available. 1955; Reprinted 2006-Sun Publishing; Alfred,NY
Belfast Sesqui Centennial      
Bolivar, NY: Pioneer Oil Town John P. Herrick Original Copyright 1952

Reprints available from Pioneer Oil Museum of New York-Bolivar,NY

Printed by Ward Ritchie Press in Los Angeles
Bolivar, Town of -Sesquecentennial Book - 1825-1975 Committee   $7.00; Shipping & Handling +$2.50; Mail checks to: “B.R.A.G. Historical Preservation Society” - address: c/o Bolivar Free Library -- 390 Main Street --Bolivar, New York 14715
Caneadea Council House and its Last Council Fire, The Henry R. Howland Reprinted 1932 Comfort Craftsmen; Perry, NY
Cars Made in Upstate NY James Bellamy An Allentown Graduate Squire Hill Publishing Co. Red Creek, NY 13143.
Centennial History of the Town of Nunda     Committee
Centerville NY Diamond Centennial     Committee
Ceres, History of Miss Maria King 1896; 150 pages; "Sketches of Pioneer Life" Gillet & Weston; Olean, NY
Civic History and Illustrated Progress of Cuba, Allegany Co., N.Y. John Stearns Minard 1822-1910  
Civil War Veterans in and Around Allegany County, New York Calvin Matteson 2000 Morris Publishing; Kearney, NE 68847
Country Aires - A Visitor's Guide to Allegany County William Heaney, Molly Euken, & James Hopkins   Amity Press - Belmont,NY
Country Salt Howard F. Drake 1951

 

Dorrance & Company
Country Towns of New York Bill Kauffman 1994 Country Roads Press - Castine, Maine
Cuba Sesquicentennial     Committee
Directory of Allegany County, NY with Map George Hanford 1905 Advertiser Associ. Press - Elmira
Dumbest Kid in the 3rd Grade, The Robert V. Broughton Autobigography Published by Benson Smythe Publishing --Christina Case Wightman-3052 Palmer Road-Wellsville, NY 14895; Phone: 585-593-6145
Empire Oil Herrick, John P. Original Copyright 1949

Reprints available from Pioneer Oil Museum of New York-Bolivar,NY

Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949
Executions in Allegany County, NY Compiled by Robert Dorsey Email: ROBERT DORSEY ISBN 1-888911-24-7 --Published by Benson Smythe Publishing --Wellsville, NY 14895
Fifty Year History of the Yorks Corners Mennonite Church Christina Wightman   Published by Benson Smythe Publishing --Wellsville, NY 14895
First Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church membership records : Alfred, NY Ilou M. Sanford 1995-Church records and registers -- New York -- Allegany County
Registers of births, etc. -- New York -- Alfred
Heritage Books
Frank, The Cows are Out Frank O'Brien Reminiscences of a Countryman as recorded by Frank O'Brien of Scio Township, Allegany County, NY The Amity Press; Belmont, NY; 2nd print, 1994
From a Local Historian's Notebook Collected by Hazel M. Shear Formerly Allegany County Historian; 1969 DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, Inc.; Ithaca, NY 14850
GABBY HAYES, King of the Cowboy Comics

Addendum - COVER PAGES OF BOOK

Bobby Copeland & Richard B. Smith III A book Gabby would be Proud Of!! Empire Publishing, Inc. 2008

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www.empirepublishinginc.com

Gazetteer and Business Directory of Allegany County, NY for 1875 Hamilton Childs 1875 Syracsue-Journal Office

Genealogies of African American Families in South Western New York State, 1830-1955.  (Addendum Page.htm#African-American Families....)

Thomas A. Entzminger 2002 Thaaron Publications, 182 p. Aurora, CO
Genesee, Town of  - Sesquicentennial Book 1830-1980 Committee   $7.00; Shipping & Handling +$2.50; Mail checks to: “B.R.A.G. Historical Preservation Society” - address: c/o Bolivar Free Library -- 390 Main Street --Bolivar, New York 14715
Genesee Country Senecas Irene A. Beale 1992 Chestnut Hill Press; Geneseo, NY
Genesee Echoes; The Upper Gorge and Falls Area from the Days of the Pioneers Mildred Lee Hills Anderson 1956; Castile,NY F. A. Owen Publishing Co., Dansville, NY
Genesee Memories and The Flood of '72 Mildred Lee Hills Anderson A Companion Story to Genesee Echoes Burt's Printing Service, Inc.; Dalton, NY
Genesee Trail, The Dr. F. M. Crocker 1922 Perry, NY- Perry Herald Print
Genesee Valley Events 1668-1986 Irene A. Beale   Chestnut Hill Press; Geneseo, NY
Genesee Valley People -- 1743-1962 Irene A. Beale 1983 Chestnut Hill Press; 5320 Groveland Road-Geneseo, NY 14454
God Has Been Good to Me Ward M. Hopkins 1968 privately published
Hard Times in the Country; Ramblings of a Hayseed

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Timothy L. Wahl 2009 Publisher: iUniverse.com (January 29, 2009)

312 Pages-Softcover; also Hardcover; Amazon.com

ISBN-10: 0595492533
ISBN-13: 978-0595492534

Henry Hendryx Murder Case, The; A true happening in Cuba,NY Louise Hendryx 1876 Murder Mystery -Trial Records and more. Van Mark Printing-Wellsville,NY  1990
Historic Annals of Southwestern New York, The Allegany County Section Editor, Lewis Henry Thornton 1940 Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
History & Memories of West Almond Virginia Hargraves Burdick    
History of Alfred New York - 1990      
HISTORY OF ALLEGANY COUNTY,NY"; 1806-1879 F.W. Beers & Co., NY 1879 History Geo. MacNamara, Printer, 36 Vesey St., NY 1879; reprint, Morrison Co-Ovid,NY 1978.
History of Alleg. Co., NY - NAMES  INDEX French Transcribed by Ron Taylor CLICK HERE FOR INDEX ON THIS WEBSITE
History of Allegany County, A - Part I - to 1906 Edited by Oak Duke Wellsville Daily Reporter Available from Wellsville Daily Reporter; website: www.wellsvilledaily.com
History of Friendship      Friendship Sesquicentennial Corporation
History of Our Lady of The Angels Church 1850-1994 by David H. Crowley 1994 Ferguson Printing, Inc.- Salamanca, NY

History of the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth

            Regiment of New-York Volunteers
Rev. William A. Rogers, Chaplain 1865

New York:  John A Gray & Green Printers,   

History of the Town of Wellsville Martha Howe   ISBN 1-888911-21-2 --Published by Benson Smythe Publishing --Christina Case Wightman-3052 Palmer Road-Wellsville, NY 14895; Phone: 585-593-6145
If Our Earthly House Dissolve edited by Helene C. Phelan Story of Wetherby-Hagadorn Family of Almond, NY; Told from their Diaries and Papers; 1973 Sun Publishing Company; Alfred, NY
In His Steps Charles M. Sheldon    
In Memory of Abijah Joslyn Wellman 1836-1889 Landmark Society Dedication of Wellman Homestead to People of Friendship,NY (Booklet) Committee
Indian Captive -- The Story of Mary Jemison Lois Lenski 1941, 1969, 1995 Harper Collins Children's Books
James Baxter Frederick Fay Swift    
John the Great -- The Times and Life of a Remarkable American, John L. Sullivan Donald Barr Chidsey 1942 Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
Linked Arms -- A Rural Community Resists Nuclear Waste Thomas V. Peterson 2002 State University of NY Press
Man Who Owned the Pistols, The Helene Phelan 1981; John Barker Church And His Family Heart of the Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY 14847
Many fiction books Grace Livingston Hill    
Mary Jemison -- White Woman of the Seneca Rayna M. Gangi; Epilogue by Peter Jemison   unknown
Mother & Her 19 Children John Elmer Lawton 2000 Morris Publishing
Nuggets of Truth Compiled by Frank O'Brien 1997 Community Services; Andover,NY
Our Chamberlain cousins: includes descendants of Elijah Chamberlain and Hannah Morrill and some other related Chamberlain families, who lived in Allegany County, New York Elene Wagner 1987 World Printers; Wakeeney, Kansas
Our House Gertrude Burdick 1870-1961 A Family Story of a Home at Alfred,NY-BURDICK, CLARKE, TAYLOR, MERRILL, WINGATE, RASE. Privately Printed; 
Peaks of Allegany Hubert D. Bliss    
Pumpkin Hollow--A Tale of a Developing Nation Frederic D. Morris; Born Ischua,NY 1915; Educated in one-room, one-teacher school; Cornell University Bachelor & Masters; Taught 33 years at Rushford Central School. Fictional work of the Courageous people from turn of century-centered on patriotic individuals who remained true to their ideals despite onslaught of modernism and big industry--old timers, farmers, preachers, school teachers, working men. Carlton Press, Inc--New York, NY; A Geneva Book; 1988.  Submitted by Florence Fuller, Houghton.
Red Jacket - Seneca Chief Arthur Caswell Parker 1998 University of Nebraska Press
Relections: A Pictorial History of Allegany County  Editor-Oak Duke Wellsville Daily Reporter Available from Wellsville Daily Reporter; website: www.wellsvilledaily.com
Reflections: A Pictorial History of Allegany County "Bicentennial Edition (Vol. II) Editor-Oak Duke Wellsville Daily Reporter Available from Wellsville Daily Reporter; website: www.wellsvilledaily.com
Rise and Demise of the Genesee Valley Canal David L. Kipp    
River Ramble, A Arch Merrill Saga of the Genesee Valley "EVEN my best friends laughed when I said I was going to walk the entire length of the Genesee River on my vacation." Originally published 1943, Gannett Company, copyright.  Printed by Louis Heindl  Son-Rochester,NY.  Reprints available at bookstores. The complete book is Online: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymonroe/book/river-ramble-1.htm#forward#forward
Rural Churches of Allegany County William G Mather Jr.    
Rushford and Rushford People Helen J. White Gilbert    
Rushford Centennial      
Sesquicennial Town of Amity Committee   The Amity Press; Belmont, NY; 1980
Shawmut Railroad; Shawmut Historical Society has 2006 Commemorative calendars     $7 postpaid.  Checks payable to: P.S.& N. RR Historical Society;  Mail order address: John M.Muchler – 88 South Main Street-Avoca, NY 14809-9771
Sketches of Border Adventures and The Life and Times of Major Moses VanCampen by his grandson, J. Niles Hubbard, Edited by John S. Minard 1893 Published by John S. Minard
Some Early Church History of Western NY Hazel M. Shear; Allegany County Historian 1967   Published by the Author
Some Smiles & Some Serious Thoughts Frank O'Brien 1999 -Published by Benson Smythe Publishing --Christina Case Wightman-3052 Palmer Road-Wellsville, NY 14895; Phone: 585-593-6145

Southern Tier, The (2v.)  Rochester, NY

 

Arch Merrill 1953 - 12th in the Series of "Arch Merrill's New York" Creek Books; Now out in paperback
Spirit of Rushford   1908-1958  
Susan, Pioneer Woman Harriet Balcom Davis About Susan Burr, pioneer settler of the Town of Caneadea.  privately published and available through the author  Email:  Harriet Balcom Davis
The Waif of the Wreck and Joe Gains C. M. Van Curen   Van Publishing Company, Bolivar, NY and printed by George W. King Printing Company, Baltimore, MD.  Copyright 1919 by C. M. Van Curen
Tales from Allegany County Hazel M. Shear   Published by the Author
Tales of Belmont Compiled by Frank O'Brien   Morris Publishing; Kearney, NE
The White A Novel by Deborah Larsen 2002 Vintage Books/Random House
Three Journeys to the Genesee: The Life of Moses Van Campen -- A Frontier Biography Molly Beer 2009

Available at several Angelica, NY locations

 

Addendum

 

"To Save The Union - Volunteers in the Civil War from Centerville, Hume and Granger Townships Allegany County New York" Robert N. Colombo 2007 Published 2007 by Heritage Books, Inc., Publishing Division, 65 East Main Street, Westminister, Maryland 21157-5026. E-Mail rcolombo@erols.com
Town of West Almond 150th Pamphlet    
Town Called Angelica, A Committee of Booster Citizens Photos by Donna Jane Hall 1974
Tramping Out the Vintage edited by Helene Phelan 1983; 1861-1864 Civil War Diaries & Letters of Eugene Kingman Heart of the Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY 14847
Valley of the Ghosts Shirley Cox Husted 1982;"Folklore and Legends from the Storied Genesee Valley Region of NYS The Lift Bridge Book Shop
Weeds On The Towpath; An Autobiography of a V.I.B. (Very Important Building) DeEtte M. Chamberlain Belfast Canal Warehouse Story Privately Printed 1981
Wellsville Story, The Hazel Shear    
White Vest for Sam'l", "--And A Helene Phelan June 1, 1976 Alfred Sun
Who Only Stand And Wait Helene Phelan 1990; Civil War Letters of David and Ann Smith 1863-5 Heart of the Lakes Publishing; Interlaken, NY 14847
Who's Who in Allegany County? 1937-1938 Editor, Sidney A. Hixson-Cuba,NY   Unknown
Who's Who in Allegany County? 1959-1960 unknown Copy owned by Cuba Historian, Dave Crowley unknown
 Ye Olde Log School House Tymes John Minard 1905 Free Press Print, Cuba, NY
     
     

 

 

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