The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1840 when it split off from the American Anti-Slavery Society over several political issues, including religious and feminist movements within abolitionism. Arthur Tappan was the first President of the Society. The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved in 1855.

Green Lakes State Park is located in the Town of Manlius, east of Syracuse. The Park is centered on two small lakes, Green Lake and Round Lake, which serve as rare examples of meromictic lakes, notable for the absence of seasonal circulation between water layers and for the relatively undesturbed sediments at the lake floors. The park has a golf course, beach recreational area, and camping area, and has historically been a destination for outdoor recreationers.

Arvin H. Almquist (1901-1959) served as the park's first superintendant and oversaw the construction of the park's roads, golf course, beach, and other facilities.

Allen Gideon Tripp (1868-1912) was born in Clay, New York on November 13, 1868 and primarily lived in Cicero. He began his studies at the Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1896 and graduated in 1900. While at Syracuse University, he was the class president in 1898 and 1899 and was a member of the Iota Chapter of Alpha Kappa Kappa. He married Angie L. Overacre in June 1900 and died in 1912.

The Allan Herschell companies were major employers in the Tonawandas from 1872-1960, and in Buffalo from 1960-1970. The Armitage Herschell Company began in 1883 as an iron foundry, manufacturing such products as corn huskers, street drains, and boilers. Because they were already manufacturing steam boilers, Allan Herschell convinced his partner, James Armitage, to begin to manufacture hand-carved wooden carousels in 1883. The carousels would be propelled by means of the steam boiler. Around the turn of the 19th century, the Armitage Herschell Company was manufacturing a carousel a day, sending them to all parts of the world, including India and Tahiti.
In 1903 the company filed bankruptcy, and the assets were sold to Allan Herschell and his brother-in-law, Ed Spillman. The Herschell-Spillman Company continued until 1926 manufacturing carousels, engines, and amusement rides of all kinds, becoming the world's largest manufacturer of rides. In 1915, Allan Herschell left this company to create the Allan Herschell Company which eventually bought out the Herschell-Spillman Company, joining the two operations. In 1960, Chance Manufacturing of Wichita, Kansas, bought the company and moved it to Kansas.
Chance Manufacturing put the remaining assets of the Allan Herschell Company up for auction in 1998. The Carousel Society of the Niagara Frontier, operator of the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum, was successful in purchasing these assets and returned them to North Tonawanda.

The town of Alfred is located in Allegany County, New York. There is a Village of Alfred within the town, which is where The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred State College, and Alfred University are located. Alfred University opened in 1836 and is one of the oldest coeducational institutions in the country. Alfred University started as a teacher’s college but now has a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate programs available for students.

Alexis L. Johnson was born on August 31,1811, the first of eight children of Cephus Johnson and Sophia Haile Lockling in Fairfield, NY. During his youth, he spent the summer months working on his father’s farm and the rest of the year in school at the Eaton’s Bush district school.*
Johnson began his career as an educator at the Myer’s district in the town of Herkimer, NY, in the winter of 1828. During the winter term of 1829, he taught at the Pierce school in the town of Fairfield, NY. Concurrent to these appointments, Johnson attended the Fairfield Academy under the tutelage of David Chassell. In 1830, he attained a position teaching in Dutchtown, NY, where he earned his teaching certificate, and later found work in Little Falls, West Schuyler, and the Sterling districts. He married Mary Finster, daughter of Dutchtown trustee Peter Finster, in 1830 while at West Schuyler. In 1843, Johnson and his family moved to the Dutchtown farm and took up dairy farming. He was a respected figure in his community, serving as executor and arbitrator of local estates, and was a commissioned officer in the militia. Johnson and his wife had seven children. His wife, Mary Finster, died in 1887. Alexis Johnson died on April 5, 1905 at the age of 93.
Johnson left extensive historical accounts on the local history of Schuyler, NY. He detailed this local history through several handwritten manuscripts, containing hand drawn maps, that he willed to his descendants, namely his eldest son Seymour P. Johnson. These manuscripts detail the lives and customs of Schuyler’s inhabitants and provide insight into nineteenth century life in Central New York.

There is a collection of more than 12,000 historical records, preserved by the Chautauqua County Historical Society at the McClurg Museum in Westfield, NY. This collection, referred to as the "Tourgée Papers," contains not just the documentary evidence of the life work of one man, but these records also offer a dramatic documentary of an entire nation in an epoch of American history that continues to be revisited and reinterpreted to this day. The digital collection of "Tourgée Papers" on New York Heritage represents a fraction of the physical collection housed at CCHS.
Albion Tourgée: son of immigrants, college graduate, Civil War veteran, husband, father, lawyer, judge, author, editor, diplomat, and activist. The historical evidence of Tourgée's life and career provides a picture of a man who sincerely believed in and advocated for equal rights for all citizens. His adherence to the "Golden Rule" was a guidepost throughout his life, identifying and combating prejudice and discrimination in political as well as social circumstances. Tourgée was an ardent opponent of the segregationist "Jim Crow" laws that were sweeping across the country, despite the fact that the federal Constitution was now amended to encompass citizens of color. For many Americans – mostly as students - Tourgée's most recognizable contribution is one that most people are unaware of his role in: the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson. The irony of this event is that contrary to Tourgée’s intent, the decision rendered "separate but equal" an acceptable doctrine of American political and social life for the next sixty years.
But perhaps the most important contribution Tourgée made to American history was to collect and preserve all the correspondence he received during his lifetime. The correspondence in this collection does not represent an historic event – it is the event because it encompasses all parts of the country and all individuals living through and being affected by the struggles of a postwar reconstruction of the American nation. The fact that Tourgée saved and passed on these materials tells us that he considered the voice of the people to be the authentic narrators of the struggles to achieve and protect equal rights of American citizenship.

Dr. Albert Leffingwell (1845-1916) was a physician, social reformer, and vocal advocate for vivisection reform born in Aurora, NY. He authored many books bringing light to the cruel abuses of animal experimentation and calling for regulation. He worked at the Dansville Sanatorium at Dansville, NY, had a private practice in New York City, and served as U.S. Consul to Warsaw in 1905, then part of the Russian Empire. His wife, Elizabeth (née Fear) was also a doctor. His son Albert Fear Leffingwell (1895-1946) was a pulp novelist who wrote mystery thrillers under the pen name Dana Chambers.