175 Calendar

March 28: Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, who was the moving force behind the establishment of Green-Wood Cemetery in 1838, died on this date in 1888.

March 27: On this date in 1869, James Harper, one of the Harper & Brothers of publishing fame (now HarperCollins), and who served as Know-Nothing New York City mayor, died.

March 26: On this date in 1894, Kitty Flynn Terry, whose wild life was the subject of the 1945 movie “Kitty,” starring Paulette Goddard, was interred at Green-Wood.

March 25: William Colgate, founder of the company that we know today as Colgate-Palmolive, died on this date in 1857.

March 24: John Taylor Johnston, the founding president of The Metropolitan Museum, died on this date in 1893.

March 23: Richard Anthony Proctor was born in England on this date in 1837. He became an accountant but then pursued his true love, astronomy, lecturing on it throughout the world. His gravestone at Green-Wood bears two stars.

March 22: Actress Maggie Mitchell, who had been rumored to be a girlfriend of Lincoln-assassin John Wilkes Booth, and whose photograph was found in Booth’s wallet as he lay dying, died on this day in 1919.

March 21: Civil War officer Richard Auchmuty, who was brevetted colonel for gallantry at Gettysburg and who partnered with James Renwick Jr. as an architect, buried his amputated leg at Green-Wood on this date in 1893; he joined his leg at Green-Wood on November 3 of that year.

March 20: William Wall, who went from rope-maker to bank president (of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank) to congressman, was born in this date in 1800.

March 19: Civil War General Francis Baretto Spinola was born on this date in 1821. In 1886, he became the first Italian-American elected to Congress.