everything needed for a proper
Thanksgiving feast arrived at Rose Hill
in time.
27) January 3, 1864: Our founder,
“Dagger John” Hughes, passes away after
months of illness.
1870s
31) 1870: Bro. Jeremiah Flaherty, SJ
arrives at Fordham. For the next 40 years,
he would serve the head baker at Rose
Hill. Among his bakeshop specialties is a
currant scone that would come to be
known as the Famous Fordham Bun.
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, theses buns are served daily to
the boarding students during their
afternoon study break, becoming an
integral part of school culture.
25) Late Summer 1863 : Esteban
Bellán arrives from Cuba to begin what
we would call his freshman year at the
Prep, completing his Second Division
education as an honors student while
learning and exceling in the new
American game — baseball. After his
Prep days, Bellán would go on to play
professional hardball with the Troy
Haymakers, becoming the first Latin
American to play in the big leagues. He
is remembered as the “Father of Cuban
Baseball.”
32) Early 1870s: Austin O’Malley, Class
of 1874, would later recall: “When I went
to Fordham first, thirty-seven years ago,
28) January 7, 1864: Future Mexican
senator, Juan Tomás MacManus y
González, Class of 1867, arrives in New
York from Mexico to begin his Prep
boarding years at the start of second
semester. Later in life, he would recall the
traffic throughout Manhattan that day on
account of Archbishop Hughes’ funeral.
29) June 1865: Alexander (Alessandro)
Cristadoro completes his Second Division
studies, following in the footsteps of his
half-brother, Joseph (Giuseppe), who had
completed his Prep years in 1850. They
were the sons of a wigmaker from
Palermo, Italy.
30) 1866-1867 School Year: Fr.
26) November 26, 1863: Per
President Lincoln’s declaration,
Thanksgiving is celebrated as a national
holiday for the first time. Prep parents
from across the country would
coordinate their efforts to make sure
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William Moylan, SJ, Prep and University
rector, or president, ushers in a new
there were no electric railways, electric
lights, telephones, or motor cars; no
football, track team, basketball or golf;
no juvenile knee britches, no sparrows,
typewriters, bicycles, or armored ships.”
If sparrows seem an odd additional to
the list, one must remember that the
now-common brown sparrow was only
introduced to North America in the
mid-1800s.
33) 1872 or 1873: The Administration
bans the campus snack shop from selling
pie on account of its unheal