Henry Homelius was born in 1850 in Buffalo, New York, to an immigrant family from Germany. His father was a carpenter and builder. When Henry was six years old, his family moved to Batavia, an up-and-coming city with many possibilities. Henry attended Batavia High School, but no records show he graduated. He may not have earned a high school diploma but what he had was a
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The Batavia City Council on Monday night voted, 8-1, to hire a grant administrator, accepting City Manager Rachael Tabelski’s premise that the full-time, in-house position is essential and rejecting Council member Robert Bialkowski’s suggestion to explore grant writing/management services from an outside agency. The position, which will report to the assistant city manager,
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Video Sponsor Albert and George Brisbane are not history's first feuding brothers, of course, but their divergent ways are a part of Batavia's history, as is the role their father played James Brisbane in the settlement and development of the little village by the bend in the Tonawanda. James Brisbane became a very wealthy man in Batavia and Albert and George were his