Frederick Philipse III, the third and final Lord of Philipsburg Manor
By Mary Hoar, City of Yonkers Historian, Chair of Revolutionary Yonkers 250, President Emerita Yonkers Historical Society, recipient of the 2004 Key to History, Member of the Yonkers Landmarks Preservation Board, and President Untermyer Performing Arts Council
Monday, June 10th
June 10, 1922: The Yonkers High School Freshman Baseball Team outplayed the YHS Varsity in every aspect of the game, embarrassing the older team. It was not excpected the young team, less than a year out of elementary school would win. The varsity team appeared in full strength, lead by Captain and catcher Chet Cunningham with Rugh pitching. The pitcher for the freshman was Harry Beamish with Tommy Hoar catching. Beamish later played in the Brooklyn Dodger’s system.
June 10, 1933: Man of many talents Joseph Urban passed away. According to Whitney Bolton of The Morning Telegraph (NY), “Urban’s life was made up of a multiplicity of careers.” An illustrator, a scenic designer and an architect, he won top awards in all categories. His last major work was the color scheme of the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago, experimenting for months to find the proper brilliant paint to use.
Tuesday, June 11th
June 11, 1910: Ida Husted Harper spoke on the evolution of the woman suffrage movement at the first of four lectures to be held at Greystone, the home of Mrs. Samuel Untermyer. Minnie Untermyer served tea to attendees; afterwards the Untermyers provided carriages and cars for guests who needed transportation.
Harper wrote a three-volume biography on Susan B. Anthony, at Anthony’s request. She collaborated with Anthony on Volume Four of the History of Woman Suffrage; after Anthony’s death, Harper finished the series by writing volumes five and six.
June 11, 1923: Richard Fitzgibbon of Yonkers’ Corporation Counsel’s office served notice on Malcolm Mathieson, counsel for Ku Klux Klan Kleagle Herbert Storm in his $15,000 lawsuit for against Public Safety Commissioner Thomas Tobin. Yonkers was asking Supreme Court Justice Frank Young to set aside Storm’s suit as it did not contain sufficient evidence to base a suit. Storm alleged he was unlawfully seized by YPD, who searched his Elm Street room and took some of his possessions. The police took Storm to question him without formal charges being levied against him and without a warrant.
Wednesday June 12th
June 12, 1693: William and Mary granted the Royal Charter to create the Manor of Philipsborough.
June 12, 1942: City Comptroller William Schubert asked NY State Attorney General James Bennett to rule on the legality of Yonkers Common Council’s appropriation of city funds to purchase sendoff gifts for Army selectees. He made the official request after Mayor William Wallin announced the Council’s action was in violation of the New York State Constitution.
June 12, 1959: Doug Ford of Yonkers took second place in the US Open held at Winged Foot Golf Club.
Thursday, June 13th
June 13, 1950: After a year-long study, the committee appointed by the Common Council to produce the book A History of Yonkers in World War II announced it would take ten months and cost $26,800 to print 5,000 copies. Printing costs would be about $15,000; the remainder of the cost were for a director and stenographer, supplies, postage and incidentals.
Friday, June 14th
June 14, 1923: Henrietta Livermore of Yonkers won a major victory when her resolutions calling for the Republican State Executive Committee to provide equal representation for women passed “without question” at their annual meeting. Livermore resigned as Chairman of the State Women’s Executive Committee, anticipating her election to the new position of Vice-Chairman of the State Committee.
June 14, 1954: During an air raid drill called “Operation Alert,” Refined Syrups & Sugars staff added a casualty drill at the Yonkers Refinery. Stretcher bearers carried a “casualty” to the company’s medical bureau for “further treatment. One of the first aid techniques employed was administering Dextran, a blood plasma extender made by the Yonkers company.
Saturday, June 15th
June 15, 1776: Frederick Philipse was summoned to appear before the Committee for the Hearing and Trying of Disaffected Persons to determine if he should be considered a friend to the American cause.
June 15, 1871: The Hudson River Railroad Company announced they would erect an iron building, to be put on the Locust Street grounds. The entrance to the trains will only be through the depot building as the track would be fenced in, with gates at Ashburton Avenue and Locust Street.
June 15, 1943: The Yonkers Women’s Army Corps recruiting campaign was kicked off with a bang! An Army trailer filled with WACs arrived in Getty Square; the women not only gave information and answered questions, they interviewed women, enlisting them on the spot.
Sunday, June 16th
June 16, 1920: Supreme Court Justice Seeger authorized the Yonkers Corinthian Yacht club to sell its property to James A. O’Connell for $7,500. Apparently, membership of the Club decreased so much it was impossible for those remaining to properly maintain the house on the property, which stood on land under water north of Arthur Street. O’Connell allegedly represented the New York Yacht Club.
June 16, 1921: Henrietta Livermore, NYS Republican leader, convinced US Attorney William Hayward and the Attorney General to hire Attorney Mary Ruttor Towle of the law firm Rembaugh Towle as an Assistant US Attorney, the first woman in first woman Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of NY.
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