Pan-American Exposition Links

The Pan Am's Who's Who
1901 Buffalo, New York, Pan-American Exposition list

On this page:

• Board of Architects
  
  
• Board of Directors
  
  
• Board of Women Managers
  
  
• Building Committee
  
  
• Other

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Board of Architects

• Chairman: John M. Carrere, from the firm of Carrere and Hastings in NY
  Triumphal Bridge (later the architect for the 1907 McKinley Monument in Niagara Square)
  
  
• George Cary
  NY State Bldg.; Ethnology Building
  
  
• Walter Cook, Boston
  The Stadium; Propylaea

• August Esenwein
  Temple of Music
  
  
• John Galen Howard
  The Electric Tower

• E. B. Green , from the firm of Green & Wicks
  Machinery & Transportation Building; Electricity Building; Art Gallery (red brick)

• R. S. Peabody
  Horticulture Bldg., Mines & Graphic Arts Buildings forming one group
  
  
• George F. Shepley, Boston
  The Manufacturers & Liberal Arts Building; The Agriculture Building

• J Knox Taylor, Washington, D.C.
  The Government Building
  
  

Board of Directors

• Delia Austin Avery
  
  
• Frank Burkett Baird
  
  
• George K. Birge
  
  
• George Bleistein
  
  
• John M. Brinker
  
  
• William I. Buchanan - Director General
  
  
• Conrad Diehl - Mayor of Buffalo

• W. Caryl Ely
  
  
• Edwin Fleming
  
  
• Henry Montgomery Gerrans
  
  
• Charles W. Goodyear
  
  
• Harry Hamlin
  
  
• William Hengerer
  
  
• William H. Hotchkiss
  
  
• John Hughes
  
  
• Charles R. Huntley
  
  
• Joseph T. Jones
  
  
• F. C. M. Lautz
  
  
• John G. Milburn - President of Board
  
  
• Harry J. Pierce
  
  
• John Newton Scatcherd - Chairman of the Executive Committee
  
  
• Robert E. Schelling
  
  
• Carlton Sprague
  
  
• George Urban,Jr.
  
  
• George L. Williams - Treasurer
  
  

Board of Women Managers

• Susan Fuller Albright
  
  
• Minnie LeRoy Becker
  
  
• Ida C. Bender
  
  
• Kate C. Tremaine Bush
  
  
• Evelyn Rumsey Cary - Designed the Art Nouveau Pan-Am poster
  
  
• Marian DeForest - Secretary
  
  
• Minnie Levyn Desbecker
  
  
• Martha Guthrie Gray
  
  
• Louise McKenna Griffin
  
  
• Kate Louise Hamlin - President of Board

• Minnie Hauenstein
  
  
• Katherine Lorenz Pratt Horton
  
  
• Harriet Taggart Mack
  
  
• Elizabeth McGowan
  
  
• Carrie Van Ness Moot
  
  
• Harriet Buell Mynter
  
  
• Eleanor Silliman Rogers - Vice-president
  
  
• Emilie Davis Root
  
  
• Frances Stanton
  
  
• Harriet Austin Townsend
  
  
• Malima Waterman
  
  

  Building Committee

• George K. Birge
  
  
• Harry Hamlin
  
  
• John Newton Scatcherd
  
  
• Carlton Sprague
  
  
• Col. W. Symons

  Other

• Albright, John
  The Albright Art Gallery was scheduled for completion for the Pan-Am
  
  
• Arnold, Charles Dudley
  Pan-Am's official photographer.
  
  
• Bitter, Karl
  Director of Sculpture
  
  
• Bostock, Frank
  "The Animal King" on the Midway
  
  
• Bosworth, W. W.
  Architect of the Forestry Building
  
  
• Buffalo Bill
  He and his Wild West Show performed in the stadium

• Chapelle, Frank H.
  Built the African Village
  
  
• Chiquita
  Cuban-born, "The Doll Lady of the Midway," only 31 inches tall, fluent in seven languages
  
  
• Czolgosz, Leon (includes photos) (pronounced cholgosh)
  Assassinated Pres. McKinley

• Edison, Thomas
  The inventor; visited the Pan-Am - but did not personally film the pan-Am. He watched the regualr evening illuminationfrom the Esplanade on July 31
  
  
• Geronimo
  US prisoner; on display; took part in the sham battles in the stadium
  
  
• Goldman, Emma
  Police claimed that Leon Czolgosz was inspired by one of Goldman's lectures.

• Larkin, John
  His soap company had important display

• Mann, Matthew D., M. D.,
  First doctor to assist Pres. McKinley after he was shot

• McKinley, Ida
  The First Lady

• McKinley, William
  President who was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz

• Park, Roswell, M.D.
  Prominent Buffalo physician who was in Niagara Falls when when Pres. McKinley was shot

• Parker, James Benjamin
  Bystander who tackled Leon Czolgosz during the assassination
  
  
• Phimister, Proctor, A.
  Director of animal sculpture; sculptor of animals on the 1907 McKinley Monument in Niagara Square
  
  
• Pierce, George
  Caused a minor sensation when he drove his 1901 Pierce Motorette onto the Pan-Am grounds
  
  
• Roosevelt, Theodore
  Sworn in as US president after McKinley died

• Rumsey, Bronson
  His farmland was the site of the Pan Am

• Rumsey, Charles Cary
  Sculptor who exhibited at the Pan Am

• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
  Considered the greatest American sculptor of the late nineteenth century; exhibited at Pan Am

• Sousa, John Philip
  His famous marching band performed for Pres. McKinley
  
  
• Talbert, Mary
  Important Buffalo African American who was Mary Talbert who was recommended as commissioner for the exhibit

• Turner, Charles Yardley
  Director of Color

• Wilcox, Ansley
  Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president in his home, now the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site

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Special thanks to the Buffalo and Erie County Central local history department librarians for their assistance in research.

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