December 12: Louis Comfort Tiffany
December 12: On this date in 1997, a pink lotus lamp by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold at auction for a lamp world record $2.8 million.
Month: December 2013
December 11: Elliott Cook Carter, Jr.
December 11: Elliott Cook Carter, Jr., composer who won two Pulitzer Prizes and one Grammy Award, was born on this date in 1908 and died last year.
December 9: Moses Odell
December 9: On this date in 1861, the powerful Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War was established; one of its prominent members was Brooklyn Congressman Moses Odell.
December 8: Dudley Sanford Gregory
December 8: Dudley Sanford Gregory, who served as the first mayor of Jersey City in 1840 and was later elected to Congress, died on this date in 1874.
December 7: Richard J. Ciuzio
December 7: Richard J. Ciuzio, World War II veteran who won 5 battle stars, then worked as a doctor at Methodist Hospital for 50 years, died on this date in 2009.
December 6: DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett
December 6: DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett, Shaker, herbalist, and free-thinker, died on this date in 1882.
Turn On The Lights!
In Green-Wood’s early years, its visitors’ entrance was along 24th Street. However, when bars sprung up along the access road just outside the cemetery, Green-Wood decided it had to move its entrance. So, in 1860, Green-Wood hired Richard Upjohn, the first president of the American Institute of Architects, and his son, Richard Michell Upjohn, to … Read more
December 5: Brooklyn Theatre Fire
December 5: The Brooklyn Theatre Fire, in which almost 300 theatre-goers died, took place on this date in 1876; soon thereafter, 103 unclaimed bodies would be buried together in a lot at Green-Wood.
December 4: Caroline Weldon
December 4: Caroline Weldon, American Indian advocate and confidante of Chief Sitting Bull, was born on this date in 1844.