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The Prince of Wales visits Niagara Falls and watches Blondin cross on the high wire
The Prince of Wales spent three days touring around Niagara Falls in Canada West, staying at Chippewa. On September 15, he watched as the celebrated French aerialist Blondin crossed the falls on the high wire several times, once with a man on his back, and sailed close to the falls in the Maid of the Mist. He also made a brief visit to the United States side of the falls. From here, the party went on to Queenstown and Hamilton, Ontario. (By John Osborne)
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Prince Albert's tour visits London in Canada West
Prince Albert's Canadian tour arrived in London, the capital of Canada West in the early morning hours of the morning by rail from Toronto. Even at 4 a.m. the welcome was enthusiastic with the salutes being fired, the whole town turned out, and 2000 children singing "God Save the Queen." After a visit in the town and an excursion to Sarnia, where he met with local Native American leaders, the Prince's party left the next day by train for Niagara Falls. (By John Osborne)
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Entry by Orville Browning, May 16, 1860
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Wilkeson, Frank
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Frank Wilkeson
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Samuel Wilkeson (Milwaukee Yenowine’s News)
“Samuel Wilkeson,” Milwaukee (WI) Yenowine’s News, December 15, 1889, p. 9: 3.
Samuel Wilkeson, journalist, explorer and railroad official, who died recently, was born in Buffalo in 1817, graduated from Union college and studied law. He early showed a predisposition for newspaper work, and in 1856 started a liberal daily paper in Buffalo, The Democracy. Governor Seward and Thurlow Weed persuaded him to go to The Albany Evening Journal. He bought an interest and managed the paper for a year and a half, when his health failed, and he sold out. After a rest he went on the editorial staff of The New York Tribune, and eventually represented the paper in Washington.
Samuel Wilkeson (Herringshaw, 1914)
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Thomas William Herringshaw, ed., Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’’ Association, 1914), 5: 698.
Wilkeson, Samuel G., journalist, was born May 9, 1817, in Buffalo, N.Y. He was for twelve years a staff writer on the New York Tribune; and its war correspondent in the army of the Potomac. He was the editor and owner of the Buffalo Democracy and of the Albany Evening Journal, having bought out Thurlow Weed in 1865. He was secretary of the Northern Pacific railroad company since 1869. He died Dec. 2 1889, in New York City.