Re: Rochester families in Rochester NY circa 1855-1860
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Re: Rochester families in Rochester NY circa 1855-1860
Cecily Bishop 9/15/13
I believe Ann Rochester's daughter was at the wedding of William H Seward III and Anna Myers.Anna Myers was from Pittsburgh.She is buried with her husband and his grandfather William H Seward the Secretary of State at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn NY.
A researcher of Anna Myers told me that she had some sort of connection to the fight at Auburn Prison over the Electric Chair.If you can remember, Thomas Alva Edison had designed an Electric Chair and wanted to used George Westinghouse's AC type of Electricity which people thought was very dangerous.
Well the Myers family of Pittsburgh and Fort Myers wererelated to both Thomas Alva Edison and George Westinghouse.They are even related to Henry Ford and his financer William H Murphy and to George Eastman and the Hutchison family living next door to the Eastman House.
The Myers' were Abolationists which leads to a fellow by the name of William Fairfax Rochester and a book about him.