175 Calendar

September 19: Thomas Dartmouth Rice, the father of minstrelsy, died on this date in 1860.

September 18: On this date in 2008, Henry Z. Steinway, the last of the family involved in its famous piano business, died.

September 17: Sarah J. Tompkins Garnet, the first African-American female principal in New York City’s public schools, died on this date in 1911.

September 16: Albert Ross Parsons, who is interred in a pyramid, and was a great fan of all things Egyptian, was born on this date in 1847 and died in 1933.

September 15: On this date in 1914, Auguste Renouard, the father of modern embalming, was interred.

September 14: Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall was murdered on this date on a lover’s lane near New Brunswick, New Jersey.

September 13: Brigadier General Charles S. Wainwright, one of the leading artillerists of the Civil War, died on this date in 1907.

September 12: New York City Mayor William Jay Gaynor, the victim of an assassination attempt in 1910, died of complications from his wound on this date in 1913.

September 11

On this date in 2001, the World Trade Center was attacked; 78 of the victims would be interred or memorialized at Green-Wood.

September 10: On this date in 1846, a penniless inventor, Elias Howe, was issued patent 4750 for his invention of a sewing machine that created a lockstitch; his invention would go on to revolutionize clothing manufacture and make him a millionaire.