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A village named Moab seems to have been platted[1] July 28, 1830, near the site of Three Rivers, and on June 30, 1831, George Buck and Jacob Mclnterfer laid out a village which they named St. Joseph. November 25, 1835, John H. Bowman platted a village which he called Three Rivers. In December, 1836, George Buck, Jonathan Brown, Benjamin Sherman, Edward Pierson and L. B. Pierson laid out a new plat, naming the village Lockport and projecting a water power and canal, so that the city now consists really of three plats, the corporate limits in 1871 being so extended as to include all of Lockport, now second ward,"-and Canada, now third ward, and Brooklyn, now fourth ward.

It is conceded by all that the first settler on what is now the first ward was John H. Bowman, then unmarried, in 1833; and in the second ward, George Buck in 1830; and in the third ward, Jacob McInterfer, in 1829; the first settler in the fourth ward not being known, although it is supposed that the small brick house now standing on Third avenue was the first house.

The pioneers of those early days still with us are Mrs. Sophia Salsig, daughter of Jacob McInterfer, the first white settler; Mary Jane Gill Hopkins,[2] Mrs. Clara Reed Crossette, all of whom now reside in the first ward, and George M. Buck, now residing in the second ward, and son of the first settler in that ward; Allen Westcott, Sylvester Troy, Arthur Silliman, now residing in the first ward; and Samuel Walz, now residing in the second ward, who have each contributed most in­teresting narratives as to early settlement and development, all of which will be preserved in full in the "Home Coming" memorial volume authorized by the common council, to be deposited in the archives of the city...(end sample page)