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One the greatest thrills for any community is the ability to claim a first at anything in history. Port Byron appears to hold such a record, with having the first elected black mayor in the history of the Empire State. This honor, for many years, has been credited to the Dawn small village of BridgewaRoe ter in Oneida County, when Everett Holmes was elected its mayor in 1974. Richard Ernest Jackson Jr. was credited as the first black mayor of a city in 1984 at Peekskill. However, our Ben White was elected mayor for the village of Port Byron on March 16, 1971, predating both men. Marcellus (Ben) White, son of Henry and Sadie Lawson White, was born at Windsor, Essex County, Ontario, Canada in 1900. He came to the United

States in 1906 and became a U.S. citizen in 1918, according to the 50th edition of Whos Who in Colored America, published in 1950. The article states that Ben was educated at a high school in Ann Arbor, Mich. and was a molder by trade. His family lived on Grape Street in Syracuse when he enlisted into World War I, serving as a private overseas from September 1918 until July 1919. He married Port Byron native Bertha Cooper, and together they supported Bens vision of equality, the staple of conduct at the Cayuga Foundry, his wife giving the company its name. In 1941, Ben along with his nephew Harold White and Homer Aldrich, purchased the site of the Tanner Dry Dock, giving birth to the Cayuga Foundry. Ben would later become sole owner and operator, expanding and erecting additional structures next to the old boat shop. The foundry grew from a one-man operation to a staff of about 20 employees with securing government contracts for castings and component parts

him the first Democratic mayor in our village history and, unless FriendFeed YouTube evidence comes forth otherwise, his 1971 election places him as the first black mayor in the hisNewsvine SlideShare tory of New York state. Google White served as chairman of the Basic Education for Adult Migrants program that provided Yahoo Yahoo Buzz Netvibes services to more than 5,000 migrants at 275 camps in Oswego, Cayuga, Wayne and Ontario Microsoft MSN civic contribuApple counties. His tions include: chairman of the Vocational Education Advisory Board of the Northern District of App Store Amazon Last.fm Cayuga County, represented the Port Byron board of education on the Five-County Regional Qik Development VimeoBoard, serving Viddler Provided as president of the Port Byron Port Byron Mayor Ben White was Chamber of Commerce, servthe first elected black mayor in ing on the board of directors of New York state. Tumblr WordPerss Blogger Family Service and the Cayuga for the military with the help County chapter of the American of the War Production Board in Red Cross, and serving on the 1944. The foundry also suppliedBehance advisory council of the Small Design Float Deviant Art hardware items for another local Business Administration for the company, the Aluminum Marine state of New York. His memberHardware Co. It was after his ships included the Lions Club, Bebo Squidoo retirement that he decided to Friendster First World War Veterans Asenter the race for mayor, making sociation, the American Legion
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and the Foundrymens Association. LinkedIn In 1975, Mayor Paul Latimore presented him the key to the city of Auburn, proclaimGoogle Talk ing Ben an honorary citizen of Auburn. Mayor White will long be remembered as a warm and caring man who loved his comAOL munity. Even at present, locals still talk about the Whites large annual holiday light display at MobileMe their home on King Street. My siblings likely recall visiting their home for cookies and hot chocolate. My grandmother Pearl WilMister Wong son was a close friend of Ben and Bertha White. I remember Ben coming to visit Pearl at her Centerport home where she shared Virb with me that she assisted Bertha as her nurse during the delivery of their child. Posterous Marcellus White, better known as Ben, has left a legacy of firsts in the history of Port Byron. Design Bump Dawn Roe is historian for the village of Port Byron. She can This be Share reached at (315) 776-8446 or portbyronhistory.com.

Popular Humans of New York photoblog is now a book

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NEW YORK Brandon Stanton rounds the corner, spots a tiny blur of pink, and runs over to ask if he can take a picture. He crouches in a busy Manhattan bike lane to get the shot: a beautiful little girl with pink leg braces, a walker and a big smile, her dad posed behind her. Stanton posts the picture on his website, HumansofNewYork. com known to fans as HONY with a mere two sentences from the father: We go to four appointments every week, but I dont mind. Shes my blood. No names or other details. Within an hour, the image has 22,000 likes. Comments like this pour in: HONY. Restoring my faith in humanity, one photostory at a time. Stantons magical blend of portraits and poignant, pithy storytelling has earned HONY more than 2 million followers online. Now hes putting his work in a book, Humans of New York, out Oct. 15 from St. Martins Press. Not bad for a guy who once flunked out of college, was fired from his first job as a bond trader and didnt own a regular camera until 2010. Stanton, 29, whos from Marietta, Ga., and lives in Brooklyn, shoots every day, taking 5,000 street portraits over the past three years. As he strolls around, Canon in hand, wearing a backward baseball cap and New Balance sneakers, hes stopped every few minutes by fans, many of them teenagers. Thanks for inspiring me, Sebastian Sayegh, 19, told him. Part of his genius is offering short, provocative captions that allow readers to imagine the rest of the story. He quotes a thin, pensive man with a cigarette as saying: Im a little bit separated

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Photographer Brandon Stanton, creator of the Humans of New York blog, right, after snapping a portrait of Mecit Kabatas and his 5-year-old daughter Bayza in New York.
with wife now. A guy carrying a bouquet says: Sometimes, when Im going home to see her, I think: Nobody should be this happy on a Tuesday. Some photos are pure celebration, like pictures of kids titled Today in microfashion: a dapper boy in blue suit and sunglasses, a smiling girl in a bright red, Islamic-style headscarf and tunic. Tender stories are featured, too, often emerging from the questions Stanton has designed to quickly uncover the most meaningful events in a persons life. His recurring What was your saddest moment? query elicits a lot of the day my mother died quotes. HONY has even inspired a parody, Hummus of New York, and copycats Humans of Sydney, Humans of Portland but they are pale imitations. Stanton accepts no advertising for HONY, but he occasionally asks fans to support causes related to his photos. HONY followers donated $300,000 for Hurricane Sandy relief; $30,000 to send a kid to camp and $100,000 to a YMCA. (Stanton wanted the fashion label DKNY to give $100,000 to the YMCA

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after his photos appeared in a window display without permission; when the company only gave $25,000, his fans made up the rest.) He doesnt take notes or use a tape recorder: Once they say the quote I am going to use, I know it. So I dont have to remember the entire conversation.
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