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Here’s a historical article from the New York Age on April 20th 1916 that mentions events that occurred in places such as Auburn, Saratoga Springs, Mumford, LeRoy, Rochester, Norwich, Poughkeepsie, Binghamton, Ithaca, and Newburgh, along with Downstate and NJ locations: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2...20-%200893.pdf (Shout out to Fulton History)
A couple of historical references related to the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the AME Zion Church in the 1915 edition of “Who’s who in Colored America”. The first, Theodore Auten, while originally from Somerville NJ, served churches in places such as Bath, Jamestown, Amsterdam and Ithaca. He also married a woman from Bath: https://books.google.com/books?id=tW...pastor&f=false (name highlighted)
The second, Edward Ulysses Anderson Brooks was born in Elmira in 1872 and graduated from Elmira Free Academy in 1889. Attended Cornell, was admitted to the Bar in Syracuse in 1893 and served as a lawyer in Elmira from 1894-1901. Married a woman from NJ in Waverly, a place where he served as a pastor. Also served in Utica(Hope Chapel), Auburn and Saratoga Springs(Dyer-Phelps)(possibly Little Falls as well): https://books.google.com/books?id=tW...brooks&f=false
A very interesting historical reference from the AuSable Valley area(Clinton and Essex counties) near Plattsburgh and Schuylerville which is an ancestor of a famous rock star and his actress daughter: https://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/who-do-...odes/liv-tyler (starts around 7 minutes or so)
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