A subscriber provides an additional anecdote about the vice president's visit to Buffalo, shortly before ascending to the Oval Office.

Ignoring the cries for human rights and basic human decency, President Millard Fillmore opted to support the Fugitive Slave Act in an attempt to prevent civil war and preserve the Union.

The Panic of 1893 moved a number of "industrial armies" to act on their economic troubles by marching on Washington.  One of these groups only got as far as Cheektowaga, however.

Dubbed the "Dean" of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice Warren Burger, attorney John Lord O'Brian argued over 50 cases before the nation's highest court, while serving his community and his country in many other ways as well.