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Millard Riley was born in Brooklyn, and later moved Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York. [3] There he opened with his brother-in-law Charles R. Wands in 1882 a retail grocery, in 1887 a wholesale grocery, and later also a cold storage building. James Riley took over the management of the company after his father's death, and retired from ...
Tomarken was born in Olean, New York, the middle son of Barnett and Pearl Tomarken, who owned Dee's Jewelry store in Olean. His family was Jewish, members of Temple B'nai Israel. They relocated to Beverly Hills, California, in the early 1950s.
The Olean High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred on December 30, 1974, at Olean High School in Olean, New York.The gunman, 17-year-old Anthony F. Barbaro, an honor student and member of the school's rifle team, indiscriminately shot at people on the street from windows at the third floor of the school building.
The Olean Times Herald is a daily newspaper serving the western Twin Tiers region, based in Olean, New York, United States.The afternoon newspaper, one of the few remaining afternoon papers in the nation, is published by Bradford Publishing and is published six days each week - Monday through Friday, with a special "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday mornings.
Olean was a rival of the comparably-populated, but much newer, city of Salamanca, New York at the turn of the 20th century, but the decline of the timber industry in southwestern Cattaraugus County and complications with Salamanca being situated on borrowed Seneca Nation land allowed Olean to continue growing while Salamanca declined.
His father, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, was a successful merchant who owned a chain of grocery stores in Olean, New York and held mining and timber tracts in Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota. [1] Higgins's grandfather was a pioneer physician of distinction in Western New York. [1]
Pages in category "Olean, New York" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Olean, New York;
Born in Olean, New York, he initially studied chemistry in his home country, but – after a brief stint in the Peace Corps – he took an interest in linguistics. He received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of London, and thereafter taught at various universities in the United Kingdom. He became a professor of linguistics at ...