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Character |
Fictional/Real. |
Short Description |
Chapter Character is First Mentioned.
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Albright, John J. |
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Industrialist; major contributor to Albright Art Gallery | 1 (Chap. 14) |
Albright, Susan Fuller |
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John J. Albright's wife | 10 |
Astor, John Jacob |
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One of America's wealthiest men | 22 |
Atkins, Miss |
Fictional |
Macaulay lower-school principal | 1 |
Barrett, Louisa |
Fictional |
Narrator | 1 |
Bates, Daniel Henry |
Fictional |
Protest leader against Niagara Falls power companies based on J. Horace McFarland | 15 |
Bethune, Louise Blanchard |
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Architect | 2 |
Bethune, Robert |
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Architect; Louise Blanchard Bethune's husband | 6 |
Bull, Police Superintendent |
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22 | |
Burnham, Daniel |
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Architect who designed Ellicott Square Building | 1 |
Butler (Edward) |
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Owner of The News, one of two principal newspapers at the time | 4 |
Cary, Dr. Charles |
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1852-1931. Professor of Anatomy, Dean of the UB Medical School. Cary hall is named after him. | 6 |
Cary, Evelyn Rumsey |
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Designed Pan-Am official poster; wife of Dr. Charles Cary | 6 |
Cary, Julia Love |
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Widow; sister of Maria Love | 11 |
Cary, Seward |
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One of Maria Love's adult cousins | 10 |
Carrere, John J. |
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Chairman of the Pan-Am Board of Architects | 1 |
Cleveland, Frances Folsom |
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Buffalonian who married Grover Cleveland in the White House | 2 (32) |
Cleveland, Grover | Buffalonian elected US president | 2 (Chap. 11, 32) | |
Coatsworth, Francesca |
Fictional |
Fictional character, but there was a prominent Coatsworth family, and Francesca's house is clearly based on the Coatsworth House on Cottage St. | |
Coatsworth, Freddie |
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Head of the Coatsworth family; Francesca's cousin | 26 |
Cornell, Dr. |
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Dr. Peter C. Cornell (Katharine's father, not her grandfather), who gave up medicine around 1900/01 to become the local impresario mentioned on page 158. | |
Fiske, Franklin |
Fictional |
Relative of Susan Fiske Rumsey; visits Buffalo supposedly to photograph industrial buildings | 3 (21) |
Fitzhugh, James |
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Acting chief engineer of the Niagara Frontier Power Co. swept to his death in water around Three Sisters Islands | 17 |
Folsom, Frances | Buffalonian who married Grover Cleveland in the White House | 2 | |
French, Daniel Chester |
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Famous American sculptor, 1850-1931 | 1 |
Fronczyk, Maddie |
Fictional |
Macaulay student | 5 |
Fronczyk, Peter |
Fictional |
Brother of Maddie Fronczyk; rising employee of Tom Sinclair | 5 |
Gilder, Richard Watson | Editor of Century magazine; close friend of Pres. Cleveland | 3 | |
Halpin, Mrs. |
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Bore Pres. Cleveland's child; institutionalized by Cleveland | 4 |
Hoyt, Dr. Austin |
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Superintendent of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane | 9 |
Hubbard, Elbert |
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Larkin Soap Co sales genius; founder of Roycrofters | 15 |
Katarzyna |
Fictional |
Louisa Barrett's Polish servant | 1 |
Krakauer, Frederick |
Fictional |
Employee of Mr. Morgan who is stationed in Buffalo | (Chap 14) |
Larkin, John D. |
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Soap manufacturer | 4 |
Letson, Elizabeth |
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Director of the Museum of the Society of natural Sciences | 15 |
Love, Maria |
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Prominent Buffalonian; founder of Fitch Crèche,the first day care center in the US | 6 (Chap. 7) |
McKinley, Pres. William |
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McKinley, Mrs. Ida |
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Wife of Pres. McKinley | |
Milburn, John |
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Prominent Buffalonian; President of the Pan-Am Board of Directors; Pres. McKinley died in his house. | |
Milburn, Patty |
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Wife of John Milburn | 11 |
O'Flarity, Billy |
Fictional |
Power company employee | 5 |
Olmsted, Frederick Law |
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America's best known landscape architect. He and Calvert Vaux designed the Buffalo park system, the first city park system in the US | 2 |
Perlmutter, Dr. |
Fictional |
Assisted pregnant student Abigail Rushman | 11 |
Richardson, H. H |
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Important American architect; designed Buffalo Psychiatric Center | 9 |
Riley, Susannah |
Fictional |
Macaulay art teacher | 2 (17) |
Rolf |
Fictional |
Power company worker who is injured in accident | 5 |
Roosevelt, Alice |
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Wife of Theodore Roosevelt | 18 |
Roosevelt, Theodore |
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Vice-president; inaugurated President at Wilcox house after Pres. McKinley's assassination | 18 (19) |
Rumsey, Bronson |
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Prominent Buffalonian; family owned the site of the Pan-Am | 8 |
Rumsey, Dexter P. |
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Prominent Buffalonian; family owned the site of the Pan-Am | 1 |
Rumsey, Ruth | Daughter of Dexter Rumsey | ||
Rumsey, Susan Fiske |
Fictional |
Cousin of Franklin Fiske | 3 |
Rushman, Abigail |
Fictional |
Macaulay student | 5 |
Rushman, Fritz |
Fictional |
Abigail Rushman's father | 13 |
Rushman, Mrs. |
Fictional |
Abigail Rushman's mother; example of social climber that is satirized in novel | |
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus |
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Important American sculptor; sculpted Albright-Knox caryatids | 1 |
Scatcherd, John N. |
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Prominent Buffalonian | 1 |
Sellstedt, Lars |
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Buffalo society portrait painter | 4 |
Sheehan, Mrs. |
Fictional |
Sinclair servant | 2 |
Sinclair, Grace |
Fictional |
Louisa Barrett's godchild | 1 |
Sinclair, Margaret |
Fictional |
Deceased; mother of Grace Sinclair. Margaret Sinclair. is based on the real-life character of Margaret Winspear (pages 34 and 685). In the novel she married Tom Sinclair, and thus became Margaret Sinclair. So the character Margaret Sinclair is fictional, but she is based on a real person. (Thanks to Gloria Bostaph for this clarification) |
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Sinclair, Tom |
Fictional |
Grace Sinclair's father; manager of the Niagara Falls power company | 2 |
Speyer (pron. SPY' er), Karl |
Fictional |
Murdered power company engineer | 2 |
Remington, Mary |
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Established Remington Mission, a settlement house, in Buffalo | 21 |
Statler, Ellsworth |
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Restaurateur at Ellicott Square Bldg.; later will build the Staler Hotel | 10 |
Sullivan, Louis |
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Important Chicago architect who designed the Guaranty-Prudential Building, an important early skyscraper | 1 |
Talbert, Mary |
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Buffalonian; Civil Rights leader who was one of the founders of the NAACP | 10 (Chap. 1, 23) |
Talbert, Millicent |
Fictional |
Fictional niece of Mary Talbert | 1 (22) |
Talbert, William |
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Wealthy realtor ; husband of Mary Talbert | |
Urban, George, Jr. |
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Prominent Buffalonian; flour miller | 4 |
Vaux, Calvert |
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Important American landscape architect; he and Frederick Law Olmsted designed the first American park system - in Buffalo! | 2 |
White, Stanford |
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Prominent American architect; member of McKim, Mead & White, the most influential arhitectural firm in the country at the time | 1 |
Williams, George L. |
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Treasurer of the Pan-American Exposition; built the house Buffalonians know as the Butler Mansion on Delaware and North. | |
Wilcox, Ansley |
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Prominent Buffalonian; son-in-law of Dexter Rumsey; Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office in his home, now the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Center | 4 |