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Associated Press Dispatches THE BUALO SUNDAY TIMES JANUARY 16 1927 7 United Press Dispatches Joseph 'Dart Ga Ce World Its irst EleOator Mrs Joseph Dart 2nd Dotha Dennison) Joseph inin me SgT elevators K' Ephriam Dennison slIp Davies '4 Vxx Baby Stephem the iumoer uuwnv Erast us Dart and William Oving 71 ton a brother in law They built a Mrs rederick Gratvick (Derb) I Joseph Dart 4 th Sarah Dart rederick Gratwick Joseph Dart 3rc( Katherine Dart (pfONE'p ffEE) VPlYTON OHIO Eliza Pifqcp Davies' Mrs Joseph Dtri 3rd) lT 4 was one 6f the belles of the seven ties Joseph Dart third was born In ttye house in Erie Street across from St Cathedral and where the offices of Rogers Locke Mil burn afterward were placed Joseph Dart second was pne of the founders of the Buffalo emale Academy (the Seminary)) There was no kindergarten at that time and Joseph Dart parents did So they sent him to the Academy (in Johnson Place) 1 in care of his elder sister Harriet (Mr Plumb) not exactly know what to do with his early education who was almost' a young woman when Joseph 2d was born dj The family later moved to Niagara and Georgia Street (southeast cor ner) where Joseph Dart the father died in 1879 Meanwhile his son Joseph 3g had graduated from Yale and gone Into the lumber business with his father After Mr death when the family home was broken up Joseph lived in bachelor quarters opposite Dr residence in rank lin Street Before he gone to Yale heihad prepared at Heathcote School when it' was in Pearl Street Then lie married Miss EH2a Pierce Daviesof Dayton where others of lovely matrons resided be fore their marriage? and transplant ing to this city 'The Darts of the third generation Mrs Dart was a woman of great charm with a personality which enT deared her to her associates and created for her lifelong friends Their two children were Dotha Dart who married red Grat wick and Joseph Dart 4th who re sides in Dayton Mr Dart fourth of the name married? Miss Katherine Martin of Chattanooga Their daugh ter pictured on this page is little Katherine Davies known as Joseph Dart 3d graduated Jfrom Tale in Is a member of the Delta Psi fraternity He has been a member of the Buf falo Club since 1881 and five years ago presented the club with the superb portrait of Governor DeWitt Clinton which adorns its walls There are In point of membership but eight members of longer dura tion than Joseph Dart 3d Joseph DART 3rrJ tne unioaaea quickly tour tnousi five hundred and fifteen bushels was elected to memoersnip in muel 8 Spaulding '76 Dr Charles Cary George Mathews '80 am' 1'erry Taylor 81 Ansley Wilcox Montgomery Geyrans Gen George ield 81 Albert Wright followed Mr Dart into the club being admitted in 82 Mr and Mrs Dart entered into the social life of Buffalo to a large extent and entertained much in their handsomely appointed home When Miss Dotha the only daugh ter returned from school she was Introduced to society and many bril llant entertainments were given for her As Mrs red Gratwick she has always been strongly Identified with social and charitable interests of the younger set Mrs Gratwick has ac complished much constructive work In the Junior League Her five lovely chlldrenjplctureds here are rederick JrJ Davies twin? girls Martha and Lisa and' baby "Stephen all of whom' are too young as yet to realise wht their great grandfather did for marine and transportation development when his progressive brain solved the problem of elevating by steam and blazed the trail for the vait business to come business which places for warding on a gigantic scale in the list of huge achievements of the twentieth century Some day they will be proud of their inheritance as Buffalo is proud that the beginning of elevating came about here Ji Mj I Joseph Daft always credited Oliver afEvans who had the inception of the Wlavatai" Mon manv vanra before its 1 fruition with the original plan a'but nothing came of the Evans con dceptlon until the' Dart brains were ''applied to it and developed the firstcommercial grain storage and trans fer of the world Joseph Dart njarried Dotha Den nison of Le Roy Yon Decem ber the first 1830 He went into partnership with if Joseph Stocking in a hat ana rur "store at the corner of Main and Swan streets He had learned the hat busi hess when a lad at Woodbury Con ianecticut' Red Jacket used to come to this store to trade in his furs He kept his wampum belt in the iron safe 'din the rear it being the only strong "8 safe in the village at that time his money Red Jacket would carefully file It away in his belt after withdrawing enough to enable him to obtain a generous supply of that fire water to which it is Said he became addicted toward the last of his life Joseph Stocking died In 1835 and In 36 Mr Dart sqlJ out to Thomas Rgtocking a son of his late partner 'f 1852 Joseph paft2d went into Jnmhpr business with his brother wsaie in receiving BA went to board at the Palace Hotel Thesp are William Glenny who a i x' tn ty otn harsh I tk 1RA7 iV JltSvl UllU Uli Mj JL Jt 1 vX vQ II Prospect Hill The Palace Hotel (or Jnvallds' Hotel as ft was designated)' burned shortly after and Mr and Mrs Joseph Dart 3d went to house keeping at the corner of Connecticut Street and Seventh Street opposite the George Lewis fnansion That part of the city was then one of the finest residence sections and many beautiful and stately homes were built in the neighborhood The Darts some time later lived at Richmond Avenue and Summer 'big planing mill oi the Ohio Basin 7 which was always known as 'He was also a large stockholddr in tJ the Buffalo Water Worktu Mr" and Mrs Dart had si dren but only three of them lived to 'maturity After the fashion of the age their chldren had duplicate names Mrs Albert Plumb wife of tho Rev Albert riumo oi xxux btir Mass was the Oldest and she outlived her father and mother Her Christian name was Harriet Eliza i Ellen Dotha Dart came next fol lowed by Sarah Maria then Joseph Stocking These three died and the next arrival being a girl she was re named Sarah Maria Miss Dart grew into a beautuui 'young 5 Grain Transfer and Stor age Historic Trail 1 blazer cf' Tran sport a tion Development 7 TfODAY Buffalo is the center of the milling industry of North America She annually handles a hundred and fifty million bushels of grain She is the heart of the eastern trade in feeding Her elevators can' hold over thirty two millions of largest elevator has a ca Xs Pacity of four million five hundred thousand bushels She has a mill that grinds than forty thousand barrels of flour dally And all this magnificent record of output Is due to one man who gave' the world and Buffalo Its first mercial elevator While we are erectlpg statues let us medal that great achievement Joseph Dart second son of Joseph and Sarah Dart of Connecticut born fe In 1799 and who migrated to Buffalo In 1821 when the village had eighteen hundred Inhabitants IVf 1 T)fl tVizx ct the grain trade from the thirties on ne reit mat tne eastward move ments of grain through this part of the world 'Would soon exceed any thing the boldest Imagination had conceived "It seemed very dear to Jo seph Dart has recorded such an Increasing trade facilities for Its accommo cation nt this port in tne an or 1842 Joseph Dart began to build a steam elevator fori the transfer and storage of grain all the product of the gold mines of California will equal the Value saved to internal commerce i of the Western and Northwestern Stfites by labor saving elevators In June 1843 the Dart elevator was ready for business Before this they' had used the block and tackle or transported the on backs to the ware houses There were the usual nupiber of critics and wiseacres who knew wouldn't Onefnan Mahlon Kingman a for warding merchant said: sorry for you been through the harksi nra the nhonneaf i ever The first vessel to arrive with 8 grain was the Philadelphia owned Tvv TT 1W klnno find rjenra Toxrlo 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