This story features a wealthy miser who lived frugally despite her wealth, about a dozen cats that lived with her in a dingy apartment, an ottoman stuffed with cash, and a few cows that made the Goelet family one of the richest landowners in midtown Manhattan in the 19th and early 20th century.
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1905: The Wealthy Miser Who Hoarded Money and Cats in a Midtown Tenement
Posted: 8th March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cows and Cattle StoriesTags: Almy Townsend, Cats of Old New York, Maria Kull, New York City History, Peter Goelet, Robert Goelet, William Kull
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1902: The Cow and Chickens That Lived in the Sprong-Duryea House in Flushing, Queens
Posted: 30th June 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cows and Cattle StoriesTags: Flushing, Flushing Cemetery, Johannes Sprong, Kissena Nursery, Queens history, Whitehead Duryea
Most farmers of old Flushing, Queens, kept their chickens and cows outside in barns and pens. But the cows and chickens that lived at the Sprong-Duryea homestead lived in the former drawing room and bedrooms of the old house.
1896: Staten Island Cows Gone Wild in New York City at the Pavonia Ferry Terminal
Posted: 3rd August 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cows and Cattle StoriesTags: Chambers Street Terminal, Harsimus Cove, Leonard Street Station, New York History, Old New York, Pavonia Ferry
When New York City Policeman James Breen joined the Leonard Street Station in the late 19th century, he probably never dreamed that one day he’d have to play the role of a Wild West cowboy in Manhattan on West Street, at the Chambers Street Ferry Terminal. In the late 19th century, West Street was always crowded […]
1857: The Horses and Cows Caught in the Firestorm at Wolfe’s Farm, Staten Island
Posted: 9th July 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cows and Cattle Stories, Horse TalesTags: Joel Wolfe, New York History, Seguine's Point, Staten Island history, Staten Island quarantine, Udolpho Wolfe, Wolfe's Pond
On May 1, 1857, the Quarantine Commissioners purchased 50 acres of the Wolfe Farm on Staten Island for $23,000 for use as a quarantine for sick immigrants.
1857: The Lean Llamas that Appeared at New York’s Fat Cattle Show
Posted: 15th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Cows and Cattle StoriesTags: Archibald M. Allerton, Bull's Head, Crystal Palace, Fat Cattle Show, New York History, Sherwood House, Washington Drove Yards
On December 15, 1857, 42 llamas arrived in New York City on the Panama Railroad Company’s brig E. Drummond under the command of Captain Crippen Chapman (try saying that fast). The llamas (they were probably alpacas, but the New York press called them llamas) were owned by French naturalist Eugene Roehn and consigned to James I. Fisher & Son of Baltimore.
