Walden Pratt and Jewett at Forest Lawn - Painterly

by Chris Bordeleau

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Walden Pratt and Jewett at Forest Lawn - Painterly

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Chris Bordeleau

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Photograph - Photography

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Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery is home to over 160,000 permeant residents. Here are the resting sites of three prominent souls.
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Ebenezer Walden was born in 1777 in Massachusetts. In 1799 he graduated from Williams College, then made his way to Oneida County, NY, where he studied law. That same year he journeyed to Buffalo to become s Buffalo's first lawyer and the only lawyer west of Batavia, NY.

In 1831, Walden was one of the select committee of 18 citizens that drafted a new charter that redefined the village as a corporation to be known as the city of Buffalo. He became the first Alderman for the fifth ward.

In 1838, the Common Council chose Walden as mayor.
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Samuel Fletcher, born at Townshend, Vermont, May 28, 1807; In 1844 he became the first president of the Buffalo Gaslight Company and continued to hold that position until his death in 1872.

He was one of the founders of the Buffalo Female Academy (Buffalo Seminary) in 1851, serving as its first president and remaining on the board of trustees until his death.

He was a very thorough and careful business man and very highly respected. While he refused several times to become a candidate for mayor, he consented in 1844 to serve as an alderman from the second ward.

Industrialist, banker, insurance magnate, merchant, railroad operator, philanthropist, arts patron, civic leader: placing a label on Sherman S. Jewett is not an easy task. His story could readily be mistaken for a piece of Horatio Alger fiction. Even in an era noted for its "self-made" individuals, Jewett stood out from his peers.
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Sherman Skinner Jewett was born in Moravia, New York, a small community near Syracuse, on January 17, 1818. His father and mother, Josiah and Sophia Skinner Jewett, were farmers who had migrated to central New York from Connecticut. Sherman was the eldest son of several children. His opportunity for formal education was limited, and he was able to attend school only during the winter months. At 15, Jewett we

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January 20th, 2015

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