June 29: Ole Singstad
June 29: Ole Singstad, engineer of the Holland, Lincoln, Brooklyn-Battery, and Mid-Town Tunnels, died on this date in 1969.
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June 28: Property Agreement
June 28: In 1838, on this date, Green-Wood Cemetery signed an agreement with six farm owners, Wycoff, Schermerhorn, Sackett, Ibbotson, Dean, and Bergen, to purchase their property–175 acres–for a “rural burying-ground.”
June 27: William Tew Partridge
June 27: On this date in 1862, Captain William Tew Partridge of the 5th New York Infantry, after fighting heroically, was shot through the heart and killed at the Battle of Gaines Mill.
June 26: William M. (Boss) Tweed
June 26: On this date in 1852, William M. (Boss) Tweed purchased Green-Wood lot 6054 for his Americus 6 Volunteer Fire Company.
June 25: Charles Tyson Yerkes
June 25: Charles Tyson Yerkes, who played key roles in the development of The Loop in Chicago and the London Underground, was born on this date in 1837 and died in 1905.
June 24: William Surrey Hart
June 24: Leading cowboy silent screen movie star William Surrey Hart died on this date in 1946.
June 23: James Renwick, Jr.
June 23: Architect James Renwick, Jr., who designed St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Grace Church, as well as Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Castle and Renwick Gallery, died on this date in 1895.
June 22: Alexander Forbes
June 22: Lieutenant Alexander Forbes, dispatched by New York City’s Council to retrieve the bodies of New York soldiers who had died and been buried in Mexico, did so, only to die of disease in New Orleans, on his way back, on this date in 1848.
June 21: Lewis Tappan
June 21: Lewis Tappan, abolitionist who was intimately involved in the Amistad defense in 1841, and arranged for the African defendants to be represented by former President John Quincy Adams, died on this date in 1873.
June 20: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
June 20: On this date in 1840, Samuel Finley Breese Morse was issued patent 1647 for his telegraph invention that changed the world.