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Becker's house, 55 W. Mohawk Mr. Becker lived there until about 1889. Mr. Becker had already been elected Mayor once, in 1875, before he moved into the house, and he was elected Mayor the second time when he was living there, in 1885, and, again for his third term in 1887. Source: The Y.M.C.A. Site Caption: Former residence of Townsend Davis and Cyrus Clark, Mohawk and Genesee Streets. Next to it, on the left, former residence of John S. Noye, later of Hon. Philip Becker. These sites now covered by the Y.M.C.A. Building. Source: "The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo," Frank H. Severance , ed. Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 16, 1912, p. 401

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