Year: 2023

• Landmarks
• Long Island
• Revolutionary War

Gardiner’s Island in War, Peace, and Romance [published Jan. 18, 1885]

jpkntz October 19, 2023

      Passin’ through that still somewhat aristocratic locality, Lafayette...

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• Brooklyn
• Marriage and Divorce
• Women

Public Love for the Romance of Elopement [published Sep. 21, 1884]

jpkntz October 19, 2023

      Roma Sickles, General Sickles step-sister, who eloped with...

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• Lawyers
• Politicians
• Trials

How Aaron Burr Recovered a Lost Estate (and His Own Purpose) [published Nov. 27, 1881]

jpkntz October 18, 2023

The ups and downs of real estate in New...

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• Inventors
• Steamboats
• Transportation

The Inland Navigation Dreams of Christopher Colles [published Dec. 17, 1882]

jpkntz October 17, 2023

      In the Episcopal buryin’ ground in Hudson street...

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• Criminals

Clever Prison Escapes [published Feb. 24, 1884]

jpkntz October 16, 2023

      The late darin’ escape and subsequent recapture of...

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• Marriage and Divorce
• Scandals
• Stock Market
• Women

The Henry Smiths of the Tweed Ring [published Dec. 30, 1883]

jpkntz October 14, 2023

      A few days ago there died in the...

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• Banks

Hard-Working, Obsessive Old Bank Presidents [published July 31, 1881]

jpkntz October 12, 2023

      I had a little bankin’ business to transact...

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• Criminals
• Forgery
• Judges
• Lawyers
• Trials

Huntington the Forger’s Moral Insanity [published Feb. 6, 1881]

jpkntz October 11, 2023

      It is no doubt pretty nearly forgotten, that...

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• Con Artists
• Eccentrics
• Women

Fortune-Tellers of Old New York [published Oct. 30, 1881]

jpkntz October 9, 2023

      Justice Wendell, not long ago, ordered a fortune-teller...

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• Actors
• Theater

Humble Origins of Famous 19th Century Actors [published Aug. 13, 1882]

jpkntz October 8, 2023

      Meetin’ a lot of theatrical people the other...

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