The Immigrants Civil War: The Irish

Hockey came first for me. So happy when the Bison's came back for AA Baseball. We lost our NBA team, the Braves, but no one noticed!

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Born in Buffalo. My GG Grandfather was a notorious rabble-rouser in the Niagara area. I had family who work on the Erie Canal (possibly have 1 buried under it) around Lockport, which also had a high percentage of Irishmen.

In school, we had to know Western New York History: from the Holland land Company (Buffalo was originally New Amsterdam), to the Revolution (where my family were loyalists and went to Canada afterwards), to the burning of Buffalo in the War of 1812, the Civil War to the present.

I didn't realize that Buffalo was originally called "New Amsterdam" along with New York City.

R
 
I didn't realize that Buffalo was originally called "New Amsterdam" along with New York City.

R

If but for chance, Buffalo could also have been called Black Rock, which was the next town over. When time came to decide which, as the towns grew together, Buffalo was chosen.
 
Buffalo is now AAA Baseball

Yep. Greatest baseball play ever was when the Bison's were the AA team of the Indians and Tony Pena, playing CF (he was later a gifted catcher in MLB), threw a strike from his knees at the well in deep center and threw a runner out at home. I have that ball. It was played at War Memorial Stadium, which was one of those all cement stadiums. The Bills played there in the 60's
 
I didn't realize that Buffalo was originally called "New Amsterdam" along with New York City.

R

My Grandfather work in Carlisle during the mid 1920's repairing cigarette machines. Also in Gettysburg back to Baltimore, where he lived in the same boarding house as Babe Ruth!
 
It was played at War Memorial Stadium, which was one of those all cement stadiums. The Bills played there in the 60's

I saw Baseball games there. Built for football, they had a triple high right field fence to make up for the short distance from home plate.

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Pat, in researching my husband's g-grandfather who came from Ireland to fight in the Civil War, then settled in Kansas and homesteaded there (like many other ACW veterans), I came across this little volume by an Irish Catholic priest originally from Dublin. It explains how Irish immigrants should leave the evils of the cities to come out to Kansas and resume farming. He mentions the agricultural settlements being founded by Germans. Thought you might enjoy it.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220006

Also, a map by a professor at the University of Kansas showing settlement by various immigrant groups. Professor Carruth obtained his degrees in the 1880s and taught German at KU.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220778/page/1
 
Pat, in researching my husband's g-grandfather who came from Ireland to fight in the Civil War, then settled in Kansas and homesteaded there (like many other ACW veterans), I came across this little volume by an Irish Catholic priest originally from Dublin. It explains how Irish immigrants should leave the evils of the cities to come out to Kansas and resume farming. He mentions the agricultural settlements being founded by Germans. Thought you might enjoy it.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220006

Also, a map by a professor at the University of Kansas showing settlement by various immigrant groups. Professor Carruth obtained his degrees in the 1880s and taught German at KU.

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220778/page/1
Very cool. Most of this I was completely unfamiliar with. Thanks very much.
 
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