Chautauqua County Historical Society Lecture List  1884 to Present Some of these documents are 100 plus years of age, please note that the information contained therein may or may not be accurate based on today's knowledge. YEAR TITLE AUTHOR 1884 Some Geological Features of WNY Obed Edson 1884 The Pioneer Press of Chautauqua County Willard McKinstry 1885 Pioneer Homes and Characteristics Judge L. Bugbee 1885 Pioneer Lumbermen and Mills of Cassadaga and its Tributaries Emery Armstrong Ross 1885 Organic Remains, Mastodon Americanus S.G. Love 1886 Birds of Chautauqua County John M. Edson 1886 A New Philosophy of the Sun Dr. Henry R. Rogers 1886 A Sketch of Judge Abner Hazeltine A. Hazeltine Jr. 1886 Early History of the NY and Erie Railroad Judge Richard P. Marvin 1886 Gleanings from the Past Nathan Brown 1886 Hiram Sackett Marcus Sackett 1887 Biographical Sketch of Alvin Plumb, Westfield Mary Bliss 1887 Robert Morris and the Holland Land Co. Hon. Loren Blodget 1888 Ancient Mounds and Earthworks along the Cattauragus Creek Marcus Sacket 1888 The Nebular Hypothesis Dr. Henry R. Rogers 1889 Absolute Vacuum Dr. Henry R. Rogers 1889 The Ice Lens and Its Unheeded Teachings Dr. Henry R. Rogers 1891 Chautauqua Flat and Store Boats Nathan Brown 1892 Judge Peacock W.J. Doty 1892 Random Collections of Jamestown J. Warren Fletcher 1892 The Progress of Telescopic Knowledge Rev. J. Peate 1892 A Sketch of Nathan Fay Horace C. Taylor 1894 A Sketch of Moses Marsh Mrs. Joseph Clark 1895 The Sun's Dazzle Dr. Henry R. Rogers 1896 A Few Immortals Daniel Sherman 1897 Amos Sottile Marcus Sackett 1897 Memorial Sketch of the Late Benjamin Williams W.W. Henderson 1897 A Sketch of the Life of James Allen Obed Edson 1898 State of Cuba W.W. Henderson 1898 The Universe Dr. Henry R. Rodgers 1900 Erie RR Celebration at Dunkirk Obed Edson 1900 Griffith Family W.W. Henderson 1900 Samuel Sinclair Obed Edson ???? Gerry History Obed Edson 1902 Chautauqua Paleontology - Mastodon and Mammoth W.W. Henderson 1906 The Eries Obed Edson 1906 The Influence of Women Lois E. Kibbe 1907 History of an Orchard Mrs. Newel (Ellen) Cheney 1907 Judge William Peacock Judge Abner Hazeltine 1908 Annual Address by Obed Edson Obed Edson 1908 Joseph Dix Judge Abner Hazeltine 1909 Oliver Wendel Holmes George W. Strothard 1910 An Uninteresting Place - Prendergast Blowers in Jamestown Obed Edson 1910 History of the Triangle D.A.A Nichols / Mrs. Furman 1911 Rafting and Running Rivers Daniel Griswold 1911 Natural Gas in Fredonia Lewis McKinstry 1912 Col. Willett of the Mohawk Valley C. Reed / Gilbert W. Strong 1913 DeCeleron's Bayonet A. Hazeltine 1914 Annual Address by Obed Edson Obed Edson 1914 David Eaton Julia Stone 1914 Dr. George Harrison Obed Edson 1914 Hon. Geo. W. Patterson Frank Hall 1914 The Haunts of the Leatherstockings Charles Reed 1914 Sketch of Hon. Lewis C. Todd Phin Miller 1915 The Risley Brothers Lewis Mckinstry 1915 Elliott P. Harrington Sea Diver F.A. Hall 1916 A Sketch of James McClurg Dr. W. J. Moore 1916 The Eason Family Lillia Shaw Histed 1917 Chautauqua County at the Battle of Buffalo Caroline Manchow 1917 Donald McKenzie - The King of the North West Earnest Cawcroft 1917 Poles in Chautauqua County Francis S. Stegelske 1917 The Eries Obed Edson 1919 Equal Suffrage Martha Fuller Prather 1919 A History of the Draft in Chautauqua County Harley N. Crosby 1920 Book Trails of Chautauqua County Lucia Tiffany Henderson 1920 Memorial to Obed Edson Charles Reed 1921 Holland Land Company Purchase Surveys Eugene C. Bentley 1922 A Partial History of the Red Cross William S. Bailey 1923 Capture of John Booth Benjamin S. Dean 1923 Historic Sketch of the Town of Sherman W. A. Edmonds 1924 Pioneer Rail Road Construction James W. Aular 1926 Revolutionary Soldiers in Chautauqua County Roscoe B. Martin 1927 The History of Chautauqua Lake Railway Martin Arend 1927 Historical Sketch of The James Penderghast Free Library Eleazer Green 1927 Wreck of the Schooner "New Connecticut" Mary Applebee Letter Excerpts Roscoe B. Martin 1927 The Nation of the Cat Walter Edson 1928 Archaeological Discoveries Arthur C. Parker 1928 A Chautauqua King C.M. Reed 1929 James Jesse Strang Roscoe B. Martin 1929 The Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Sullivan's Raid H.S. Sweetland 1929 The Sullivan Expedition of 1779 George A. Persell 1930 The Passing of the County Hamlet H.S. Sweetland 1931 Some Early History of the Town of Villenova H.S. Sweetland 1932 George Washington's Nearest Approach to Chautauqua Co. C.B. Sampson 1934 Bird Women George A. Persell 1934 History of Vocal and Instrumental Music Gilden R. Broadberry 1934 A Chautauqua Family - The Story of the Cushings C.M. Reed 1934 Historical Places in Allegheny County H.S. Sweetland 1934 The Crime and Hanging of Damon C.B. Sampson 1935 John McAllister Schofield - General. U.S. Army John J. Thompson 1935 Swedish Immigration to Southern Chautauqua County Mrs. Marguerite Peterson Hultquist 1936 Transportation Transitions in Chautauqua County William Doty 1936 Early Incidents in the History of the Town of Ripley Hon. Joseph A. McGinnies 1936 James McMahan & Pioneer Days in Northern Chautauqua Arthur Tennant 1936 Chautauqua County & Perry's Victory, September 10, 1813 Arthur Tennant 1937 Women in Science Berneise Zenns 1937 George Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company John J. Thompson 1937 Chautauqua County 1825-1875 Arthur Tennant 1938 Grape Growing B.S. Swetland 1938 More of Chautauqua County 1875-1914 Arthur Tennant 1938 Digest of Pioneer Homes and Characteristics Mrs. Harvey M. Osgood 1939 National Songs Vesta V. Mills 1939 NY State World's Fair Walter H. Edson 1939 Historical Sketch of Villenova Sweatland, H.S. 1939 County Highways William Doty 1939 William Seward, Agent G.P. Crandall 1939 Our Swedish Heritage Daniel F. Lincoln 1940 The Origin & Development of the Textile Industry in Jamestown William A. Broadhead 1940 Schools of the Town of Chautauque and Chautauqua George R. Raynor 1940 Dairying in Sherman Mary Kidder 1940 Rambling Along the Rds of Mina /Incidents in the History of the Twnsp. of Mina Carlton Robertson 1940 Town of Sherman Clara Hawley Casselman 1940 The Coming of the Erie Railroad to Dunkirk Wallace Brennan 1940 Where We Go From Here - The Study of Gravestones Clayburne B. Sampson 1941 An Early Industry of Jamestown John M. Cushman 1941 The Development of the Cassadaga Valley Walter Edson 1941 Early North East, PA A. Loop 1941 The "Genesee" Valley Canal H.S. Sweetland 1941 Steamboating on Chautauqua Lake John F. Jones 1942 Old Hotels and Men Along Chautauqua Lake John F. Jones 1942 Early Churches in Forestville and "Vicinity" Juliana J. Shepard 1942 How Ripley Came to Be Effie L. Mason 1942 The Patchwork Quilt Clayburne B. Sampson 1942 Topography of Chautauqua County Ruth A. Page 1943 Swedish Influences in the City of Jamestown Lloyd L. Malmstrom 1943 Ellery - Yesterdays Clayburne B. Sampson 1943 Past and Present Schools of Fredonia Blair F. Simons 1943 Fish and Fishing in Chautauqua Lake George R. Raynor 1943 How the Chautauqua Portage Changed World History Marianne Holder 1944 Ninety Four Years of the Episcopal Church in Dunkirk Rev. Leslie F. Chard 1944 The History of Locomotive Building in Dunkirk Henry Wille 1944 The Story of Welch's Grape Juice Edgar T. Welch 1945 Joseph A. McGinnies Effie L. Mason 1945 Development of the Furniture Industry in Jamestown Ralph W. Taylor, Jr. 1945 My Great-Grandfather John Blowers Clayburne B. Sampson 1945 The Hartfield-Dewittville Area George R. Raynor 1946 History of Clymer - 1946 The Old Plank Roads of Chautauqua County William J. McNamara 1946 Henry Leworthy Mrs. W. Rollin Morse 1947 The History of the Chautauqua Lake Railway Martin N. Arend 1947 Some Writers of Chautauqua County Lucia Tiffany Henderson 1947 Early Religious Activities in Sheridan Mrs.H.G. Miner 1947 The Lakeside School of New Theology Clayburne B. Sampson 1948 Forest Conservation in NYS and Chautauqua County Harry E. Dobbins 1948 The Old Erie to Buffalo "Accommodation" Emma Phetteplace Schell 1948 Rival Claims to WNY Hawley B. Rogers 1948 The Griffith Family in Ellery Catherine Griffith Cheney 1949 Forestville, Its Environs, Past and Present Mrs. Leroy H. Harrington 1949 The Early History of Panama William J. Howes 1950 Destruction of the Eries or Cat Nation - By the Senecas and Onondagas 1654 - 56 Walter H. Edson 1950 Cordova and Vicinity Mrs. E.P. Crandall 1950 Fredonia Suburbs Mrs. D.W. Padden 1950 The Aims, Past, Present and Future of Chautauqua Institution George R. Raynor 1951 Early Busti Belle Foster Westrom 1951 James McClurg and His Family Arthur S. Tennant, Jr. 1951 Our Grange Mrs. Alfreda Woolley 1952 The Circus - In Early Chautauqua County Gerald L. Todd 1952 Clymer and its People-Then and Now Mrs. Effie W. Ruslink 1952 Treasures I have Found in Our Society's Collections Emma W. Piehl 1953 Phin Miller, His Life and Time Archie D. Warren 1953 Silver Creeks' Early Harbour Days Marion Ward Thomas 1954 "Cincinnati" - Chautauqua Lake Steamboat Victor Norton 1955 Arkwright Township History John D. Griswold 1956 Changing Style in Religion Mrs. Lance Zavitz 1956 The Story of Mina Lee L. Ottaway 1957 Jamestown Store Boats Clayburne B. Sampson 1957 History of The Town of Charlotte Walter H. Edson 1958 The Chautauqua-Erie Story Donald H. Kent 1960 The Coming of the Italians to Chautauqua County Samuel C. Alessi 1961 William H. Seward Caroline Betts 1962 Chaut. Co. Waterways - Past and Present Ernest D. Leet 1967 Robert Morris J. Chester Molyneux 1967 Speaking of Small Towns Marie McCutcheon 1971 The Unknown Tourgee Dean H. Keller 1975 A Preliminary Survey of Folk Arts and Skills in Chaut. Co. Joyce Ferris Swan 1975 The Continuing American Revolution in Chautauqua County Jacob Ludes 1975 Causes of the American Revolution Lee Towne Adams 1976 The Prendergast Family - Loyalists William A. Evans, Esq. 1976 Walter Smith and His Times Rev. Leslie F. Chard 1976 Austin Smith Arthur S. Tennant 1976 Elial Todd Foote, Historian Herbert A. Beckman 1976 Profiles of Chautauqua County Historians Samuel S. Edson 1977 A Memorial to John Bowman James M. Wheeler 1977 Chautauqua County, 175th Birthday Joseph Gerace 1979 Arkwright Ruth Griswold 1984 Preserving the Past for the Future Mrs. Paul Barden 1986 The Holland Land Company in Chautauqua County Franciska Safran 1987 The Summer of 1787: A Bicentennial Remembrance Dr. Donald A. MacPhee 1988 New Sweden '88 - A Prelude Gerald Heglund 1988 Mayors of Jamestown of Swedish Decent Paul Johnson 1991 History of Ripley Marie B. McCutcheon 1992 Some Chautauquans Lee Towne Adams 1992 Records of the Chautauqua County Poor Farm Lois Barris 1994 Strange Stories of Chautauqua Lake Norman Carlson 1995 Gov. Reuben Fenton, The Fenton Mansion, and the Fenton Historical Soc. Dolores B. Thompson 1999 George Washington: His Relationships to the Area of Chaut. and Adjoining Cos. Norman Carlson 2000 Henry Rouse and Other Chautauquans at the Great Exploding Oil Well Lois Barris 2001 Albion W. Tourgee and His Biographer, Roy F. Dibble Fran Anderson 2001 Mabel Powers Rev. Dr. William Lytle 2001 Edna Button Dunn Nancy Hanks 2002 Cemeteries: Not a Deadly Topic Lois Barris 2002 The First Frontier - Chautauqua County in the Unfolding of American History Jacob Ludes III 2002 Mormonism Wayne Mori 2007 Chautauqua County Poor Farm and the Emigrant Train Michelle Henry and Pam Brown 2007 Photographic Vision of John O. Bowman Katie Landrigan 2008 Albion W. Tourgee's Reconstruction Novels: Promoting Political Change Through Literature Carolyn L. Karcher 2009 Making Women's History - Chautauqua County and the Suffrage Movement Traci Langworthy 2009 The Geology of the Lake Plain Dr. Thomas Erlandson 2010 Historical Significance of Rev. James G. Townsend's Lakeside School of New Theology, New Theology, and Liberal Religious Writings Len Faulk, Ph.D. 2011 The Amazing Life of James Jesse Strang Roger Gilbert 2011 Mayville Lakeside Park and Mayville Shoreline Devon Taylor 2012 The Brig Niagara Dr. Tom Miller, II 2012 Early Water Transportation in Southeastern Chautauqua County Jason Sample 2012 Lawson Boating and Heritage Center (video link) David Lawson 2012 The Civil War of 1812 (video link) Dr. Alan Taylor 2013 Dunkirk WW II POW Camps (video link) Ryan Corbett Video by Gregory Peterson 2014 William Cushing (video link) Jim Boltz 2015 Alonzo Cushing Medal of Honor Celebration McClurg Museum, Westfield, NY Jessica Loring 2015 Exploring the Pre-Settlement Chautauqua Landscape Stephen Tuloweicki 2015 The Amish and Their History in Chautauqua County Carol Lorenc 2016 The Year without a Summer in Chautauqua County Dr. John "Jack" Berkley and CCHS Trustee Jason Sample 2016 Strange Stories of Chautauqua Lake 2016 Version Norman Carlson 2017 History of Cheese Production See title page 2018 Chautauqua County Artists Richard Sigafoos and Russell Welch Lori Humprheys none Twenty Thousand Immigrants Aided in Chautauqua County Lois Barris none Inland Lake and River Fishing Contest, The Silver Troll O.B. 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