Canaseraga Times

Canaseraga Times was published in Canaseraga, NY. Here are news articles that pertain to family members and their lives:


Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Jan. 10, 1890:

person mentioned: Theodore G. "Theo" Sleight (1840 - 1924)

event type: pension

event date: Dec. 1, 1887


"Theodore G. Sleight, late of the 6th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, has been granted a pension of $8 per month, beginning December 1, 1887. W.H. Harris was the attorney."

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published 1903:

person mentioned: Fred Everett Sleight (1873 - 1932)

event type: occupation

event date: 1903


"Fred E. Sleight of Bishopville, a graduate of the Canaseraga union school, has been engaged as principal of the Marionville, PA, high school for the coming year. There are ten teachers beside the principal and about five hundred pupils in the school."

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Feb. 26, 1904:

person mentioned: Fred Everett Sleight (1873 - 1932)

event type: occupation

event date: Feb. 1904


"From our item last week concerning Fred E. Sleight teaching the Old Burns school, some people have drawn the conclusion that he had lost his lucrative position in Pennsylvania. This, however, is not the case. In Pennsylvania there are but eight months of school, and after his term is out there he will finish the spring term of school at Old Burns as an accommodation to Roger Litchard, the present teacher, who will teach the first few weeks before going back to his farm work."

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Jun. 3, 1904:

person mentioned: Theodore G. "Theo" Sleight (1840 - 1924)

event type: telephone

event date: Aug. 22, 1924


"South Canaseraga ... Recent additions to the Arkport-Canaseraga telephone line in this vicinity are as follows... Theodore Sleight"

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Sep. 8, 1905:

person mentioned: Fred Everett Sleight (1873 - 1932)

event type: occupation

event date: Sep. 5, 1905


"Mr. Fred E. Sleight has secured the position of principal of the high school at Cisco, N.Y., thirty-seven miles from New York. The salary is one thousand dollars a year."

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Jan. 24, 1908, page 1:

person mentioned: Harriet (Otis) Sleight (1848 - 1922)

event type: donations

event date: Jan. 1908


"Below we give the names of those who donated towards the W.H. Harris library fund:
Former Pupils... Mrs. Harriet Sleight, nee Otis, Almond"

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Mar. 20, 1908:

person mentioned: Theodore G. "Theo" Sleight (1840 - 1924)

event type: illness

event date: Mar. 20, 1908


"Mr. Theo. Sleight, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia and kidney trouble, is convalescing."

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published 1916:

person mentioned: Theodore G. "Theo" Sleight (1840 - 1924)

event type: illness

event date: 1916


"Theodore Sleight who has been in poor health for sometime left last Thursday left last Thursday for the Soldier's Home, at Bath."

Canaseraga Times (Canaseraga, NY)
published Feb. 11, 1916:

person mentioned: Theodore G. "Theo" Sleight (1840 - 1924)

event type: illness

event date: Feb. 1916


"Theodore Sleight has gone to the Soldiers Home at Bath."

This report was generated on: Dec 16, 2017

Report by: Irene Rowley

Source code: N152