Cattaraugus County NyArchives History - Books .....William O'Brien Tyrer 1879
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Book Title: The History Of Cattaraugus County, New York, By Franklin Ellis, 1879, Page 489

	Taverns and Stores: “…About 1834, Thomas Noyes built a tavern at Leon 
Center, which has been enlarged from time to time to its present dimensions…
James Dunlap erected the first store-building at Leon Center in 1833, on the 
corner opposite the Noyes tavern. In this building have been as merchants, 
Amaziah Strong, Jenks & Cooper, Cooper & Brand, Spencer Horton, J. H. Chaffee, 
W. O. TYRER, and one or two others for short periods…”

	Post Offices and the Professions: “The Leon office was established at 
Leon Mills about 1835, and first bore the name of that locality. John Carpenter 
was an early and probably the first postmaster. About 1840, Carpenter went to 
the village of Leon, and removed the office with him. Since that period it has 
there been kept, the postmasters having been Henry Lang, H. H. Holmes, R. A. 
Kellogg, Anthony Day, John Cooper, E. W. Cooper, W. O. TYRER, C. A. Kingsley, 
and H. R. Hollister…”

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