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In 1883 Dexter Rumsey purchased the
house and gave the the use of the house as a wedding gift for his
daughter, Mary Grace, upon her marriage to Ansley Wilcox, a young
Buffalo lawyer.
Rumsey had given another house, 675 Delaware Avenue, as a similar
wedding present to his daughter Cornelia who had married Wilcox in
1878. When Cornelia died, Wilcox married her younger sister, Mary Grace
Source: "A History of the City of Buffalo," published by the The
Buffalo Evening News, 1908
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