The Metcalfe family occupied a prominent place in the nineteenth-century history of Buffalo. Metcalfe Street on the east side of town honors the memory of James Harvey Metcalfe, who came to Western New York from Bath, New York, in 1855 and soon acquired fortune and station. Outstanding among his many successful business ventures were the establishment of the First National Bank, of which he was president, and the organization of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. Alert to the wider obligations of wealth, Metcalfe, as an early park commissioner, lent his considerable talents to the implementation of Frederick Law Olmsted's far-sighted plan for the city's park system
The Metcalfe family occupied a prominent place in the nineteenth-century history of Buffalo. Metcalfe Street on the east side of town honors the memory of James Harvey Metcalfe, who came to Western New York from Bath, New York, in 1855 and soon acquired fortune and station. Outstanding among his many successful business ventures were the establishment of the First National Bank, of which he was president, and the organization of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. Alert to the wider obligations of wealth, Metcalfe, as an early park commissioner, lent his considerable talents to the implementation of Frederick Law Olmsted's far-sighted plan for the city's park system
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