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.

September 9: Edward Sewall Sanford, who brought his experience as the president of the American Telegraph Company to the Union Army, serving as a colonel supervising telegraphs, died on this date in 1882.

September 8: Harold Hartshorne was born on this date in 1891; he became the United States Ice Dancing champion five times, then a skating judge, but died when the United States Figure Skating Team was wiped out in a 1961 plane crash.

September 7: Captain Robert Willmott of the SS Morro Castle died on this date in 1934 of a heart attack as he tried to bring his ship towards New York Harbor; soon thereafter, the ship caught fire and 135 lives were lost.

September 6: On this date in 1909, explorer and press agent Herbert L. Bridgman received a coded message from Rear Admiral Robert Peary reporting that he had discovered the North Pole.