Joseph Ellicott
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Places named after Joseph Ellicott:
- Ellicottville, New York – a village in Cattaraugus County.
- Ellicott, New York – town in Chautauqua County.
- Ellicott Square Building – A ten story office building in Downtown Buffalo. When it was built in 1896, it was the largest office building in the world. The building was designed by Charles Atwood of Daniel Burnham & Company Architects. The building sits on the lot that Joseph Ellicott originally owned.
- Ellicott Street – in addition to the one in Buffalo, there’s an Ellicott Street in Batavia, and an Ellicott Road in Orchard Park.
- Ellicott Complex – dorms at University of Buffalo.
- Ellicott Creek – a creek that runs through Tonawanda and Amherst.
- Ellicott Elementary School – in orchard park.
- Ellicott Run – in Sinnemahoning State Park in Pennsylvania.
(https://buffalostreets.com/2013/01/06/ellicott-part-three/)
Grave engraving by sister Rachel Evans, erected in 1849:
“He was the first resident agent of the Holland Land Company for whom in 1798 he began the survey of the western part of the state then owned by them. Even at that day his predictions of its future wealth and importance fell but little short what has since been realized. For more than twenty years, he used with great judgement combined with liberality, the powers entrusted to him as one of the earliest and by far the most efficient advocate of the Erie Canal. His name is a part of the history of New York. His reputation among his fellow citizens as a man of the highest intelligence as well as the influence of his station gave his opinions great weight with every successive administration during the first twenty years of the present century, and in every portion of the tract once subject to his control may be seen marks of his foresight and generosity. He was the founder of Batavia and Buffalo, NY.”
(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14742410/joseph-ellicott/photo)