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18 unusual facts about Erie County


B. B. Vincent

Bethuel Boyd Vincent (August 4, 1803 – July 21, 1876) was a prominent businessman and politician in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

Curt Sonney

Curtis G. "Curt" Sonney is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 4th District made up of parts of Erie County.

Erie Township, Becker County, Minnesota

It was named after Erie County, New York, the native home territory of its early settlers.

Fowlerville

Fowlerville, Erie County, New York, a hamlet in Erie County, New York, United States

Geoffrey Gatza

Gatza grew up in Kenmore, Erie County, New York and attended Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District schools: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School.

John Oliver Henderson

He returned to private practice in Buffalo, and was a Clerk of the Surrogate Court of Erie County, New York from 1947 to 1948.

Lisa Bloch Rodwin

Lisa Bloch Rodwin is a Family Court Judge in Erie County, New York.

Paul J. Weitz

He graduated from Harbor Creek High School in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania.

Weitz married the former Suzanne M. Berry of Harborcreek, Pennsylvania.

Stephen Girard

Girard, Pennsylvania in Erie County, Pennsylvania located roughly 450 miles northwest of Philadelphia was also named for Stephen Girard in 1832.

United States presidential election in New York, 1876

Hayes won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Tilden did win a fair number of upstate counties including Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany.

United States presidential election in New York, 1880

Garfield won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Hancock did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1884

Blaine won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1888

Harrison, however, dominated in much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1892

Harrison fared better upstate, where he won most counties, although Cleveland carried several upstate counties including Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, and Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany.

United States presidential election in New York, 1936

In 1936, FDR also managed to flip Erie County into the Democratic column, home to the city of Buffalo in western New York, up to that point a Republican city that had even held for Herbert Hoover in 1932.

United States presidential election in New York, 1972

This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located.

WFXP

Licensed to Erie, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter at its studios on US 19/Peach Street in Summit Township.


Daemen College

Lynn Marinelli, class of 1985 - chairwoman of the County Legislature in Erie County, New York.

David DiPietro

David J. DiPietro (born June 22, 1960) is a Republican member of the New York State Assembly representing Assembly District 147, which comprises the southern halves of Erie County, New York and Wyoming County, New York.

Ed Rutkowski

In 1979, he became the County Executive of Erie County, New York, succeeeding Edward Regan, who stepped down to become New York State Comptroller.

Episcopal Diocese of Western New York

The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming in western New York.

Highways in Niagara County, New York

I-190 heads from Erie County to Niagara County by way of the North Grand Island Bridge over the Niagara River and immediately connects to NY 384, the Robert Moses State Parkway, and the LaSalle Expressway at a complex interchange on the north side of the bridge in Niagara Falls.

NY 324 officially begins at NY 384 in Niagara Falls and overlaps I-190 southward across the North Grand Island Bridge to Grand Island, Erie County.

National Republican Congressional Committee

Recent former chairmen include Rep. Bill Paxon (1994–98), Rep. Tom Davis (1998–2002), Rep. Tom Reynolds (2002–2006), who was seen as Paxon's protégé and who represented his former district in Erie County, New York, Rep. Tom Cole (2006–2008), and Rep. Pete Sessions (2008-2012).

New York State Route 78

Continuing north through Depew, NY 78 intersects with the eastern terminus of CR 316 (George Urban Boulevard).

Ohio State Route 575

SR 575 is located in Erie County on the western portion of the island of, and within the village of, Kelleys Island in Lake Erie.

Salvatore R. Martoche

He served as assistant counsel to the majority for the New York State Senate from 1974 to 1982 and administrator for the Erie County Bar Association of the Pre-Trial Services Agency, Inc. from 1972 to 1981.

Solomon Scheu

Solomon Scheu (January 6, 1822 Standenbühl, then in the Kingdom of Bavaria, now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - November 23, 1888 Buffalo, Erie County, New York) was an American businessman and politician from New York.

WWCB

WWCB (1370 AM) is an oldies/classic hits radio station licensed to Corry, Pennsylvania and serving Corry, Union City, eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania and Clymer, New York from its studio located at 122 North Center Street (PA 426) in downtown Corry and a transmitter facility off of West Columbus Avenue (U.S. Route 6).