175 Calendar

August 30: Luther Bradish, who served in the War of 1812, was New York State’s lieutenant governor 1839-1842, and was president of the New-York Historical Society, died on this date in 1863.

August 29: Henry Bergh, the founder in 1866 of the ASPCA, the first humane organization in the Americas, was born on this date in 1811.

August 28: On this date in 1865, Confederate General Robert Selden Garnett, the first general killed in battle during the Civil War, was secretly reinterred from Baltimore.

August 27: The Revolutionary War Battle of Brooklyn was fought across what would become Green-Wood’s grounds, as well as other parts of Brooklyn, on this date in 1776.

August 26: On this date in 1893, Oscar and Maggie Dietzel, husband and wife, died after their train, coming back from Manhattan Beach, was run up on and destroyed by a Rockaway Beach train.

August 25: Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer, and teacher, was born on this date in 1918, and died in 1990.

August 24: Entertainment impresario William Niblo was interred on this date in 1878.

August 23: Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Confederate general from Mississippi, died on this date in 1900.

August 22: On this date in 1778, James Kirke Paulding, who coined the tongue-twister “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” was born.

August 21: Mary Johnson, who lived in slavery in Virginia, then upon her emancipation worked for years as a beloved servant for the Brown family, was interred in the Brown Lot on this date in 1879.