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Pages in category "People from Lackawanna, New York" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Jaworski was born and raised in Lackawanna, New York.A three-sport star in high school, he turned down a Major League Baseball offer from the St. Louis Cardinals to attend college at Youngstown State University, where he was nicknamed "Rifle Ron" and the "Polish Rifle", a reference to his Polish ethnicity.
New York Herald (New York City) 1835-1924; New York Herald Tribune (New York City) (1924–1966) [369] New York Journal American (New York City) (1937–1966) [370] New York Ledger (New York City) 1851–1903; New York Morning News (New York City) (1844–46) [citation needed] New York Morning Telegraph (New York City, merged with Daily Racing ...
Nelson Henry Baker (February 16, 1842 – July 29, 1936) was an American Catholic monsignor in Lackawanna, New York, whom the Vatican has declared as venerable.. Starting out in a parish deeply in debt, Nelson developed a national fundraising campaign that allowed him to build social institutions over the next 54 years that benefited the entire Western New York Region.
Born in Buffalo, New York to a Jewish family, and raised in nearby Lackawanna, [1] Shawn performed his stand-up comedy act for over 35 years in nightclubs around the world. [2] His award-winning one-man stage show, The Second Greatest Entertainer in the Whole Wide World, was sometimes performed with a unique opening. When the audience entered ...
William Walker Scranton was born in 1844 in Augusta, Georgia, the oldest of six children of Joseph Hand Scranton of Connecticut and his second wife Cornelia Walker (February 22, 1823-February 22, 1895), [3] "ten years his junior, and the youngest daughter and child of the late Judge William P. Walker of Lenox, Massachusetts."
Sep. 1—Typically, when a football team loses all but one starter on defense and most of its starters on offense, it is in for a rebuilding season. That isn't the case with Lackawanna College.
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849–1918), 91st Mayor of New York City (1898–1901), first Mayor post-consolidation; Robert F. Wagner Jr. (1910–1991), 102nd Mayor of New York City (1954–1965) Jimmy Walker (1881–1946), flamboyant 97th Mayor of New York City (1926–1932) forced into resigning by the Seabury Commission