Posts Tagged ‘Cats of Old New York’

1869: Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church Loved Cats

Posted: 12th July 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat Stories
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In my last post, I wrote about the famous pastor and orator of Plymouth Church who adopted a little boy’s cat from Indiana and named her Hoosier Cat. I also posted the words of an essay that he penned on cats in the Christian Union in 1870.

I just found another cat essay by Mr. Beecher from 1869 that I simply must share. I believe this essay is even better than the one he wrote in 1870.

1870: Hoosier Cat, the Homeless Cat Adopted by Henry Ward Beecher

Posted: 3rd July 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat Stories
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American clergyman, social reformer, and speaker known for his support of the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, to name just a few of his passionate causes. Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was also a cat man!

1911: The 34 Cats Atop Jack’s Restaurant on Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street

Posted: 11th June 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cats in the Mews
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Mrs. James L. Ward, a widow and proverbial “crazy cat lady,” took a lease of the top floor above Jack’s Restaurant in July 1910. At that time, she had two cats, a pug dog, and a parrot. But then the cats had two cats, and they had two cats, and so on, and so on…

1900: The Dogs (and Cats and Rabbits and Squirrels and Parrot) of Governors Island

Posted: 11th May 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog Tails
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In my last two posts, I wrote about the Army cats of New York City’s Army Building on Whitehall Street and the black cat mascot of the New York Tank Corps. This next story for Military Appreciation Month goes to the dogs. The military dogs of Governors Island.

1918: Roughneck, the Mascot Cat of New York’s Tank Corps

Posted: 3rd May 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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In September 1918, the New York Times reported that the Tank Corps men of new York had placed an advertisement for a black cat to serve as its mascot. The corps used a viscous-looking black cat on its recruiting posters, so the men in New York thought it would be great to have a live cat that could serve as a mascot as well as an attraction at an upcoming benefit event.

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