Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Lispenard Bleecker’

A few years ago, I wrote about a mixed-breed dog who made herself at home at the excavation site of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Joralemon-Street Tunnel under the East River. The men christened the dog Subway Nellie, in order to make sure no one confused her with all the other dogs named Nellie […]

Christian Gudebrod, a man described as “handsome with a clear, pink complexion and a long, straight blond mustache,” was a prominent manufacturer of silk sewing threads in New York City and Pennsylvania. One of seven brothers whose family had emigrated from Germany to Connecticut in the mid-1800s, Christian was instrumental in founding The Gudebrod Brothers […]