What Happened On This Day In Monmouth County History?

Official White House portraits of U.S. Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Nixon. Public domain.

September 4, 1931

The Curious Origin of the “Seven Presidents” of Monmouth County

Editor’s note: This research project owes much to three people who deserve acknowledgement: Janice Grace, Long Branch historian, Library Associate and History Room Manager of the Long Branch Free Public Library; Robert Waitt, president, Historical Society of Ocean Grove; and Randall...

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Featured Monmouth County History Timelines & Stories

September 2, 1945

Dr. Walter McAfee: Camp Evans Mathematician, Scholar, and Scientist

by Melissa Ziobro

Official White House portraits of U.S. Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Nixon. Public domain.

September 4, 1931

The Curious Origin of the “Seven Presidents” of Monmouth County

by John R. Barrows

Photo of 1909 replica of Halve Maen Stereo Travel Co. - Library of Congress. Public Domain

September 6, 1609

Henry Hudson’s Half Moon Explores Our Region

The SS Morro Castle burns at sea. Image Credit: International News Photos, Inc. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b14818.

September 8, 1934

SS Morro Castle: An Inferno at Sea, a Burning Hulk on the Beach, and Many Unanswered Questions

John R. Barrows

Photo of bronze plaque given the First Separate Battalion. Image credit: National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey, used with permission.

September 8, 1934

The First Separate Battalion to the Rescue

by Joseph G. Bilby

Oil painting, The North American Phalanx, ca. 1850 - 1855, unknown artist. Image courtesy Monmouth County Historical Association, used with permission.

September 10, 1854

Experimental Utopian Communities: The North American Phalanx

William Scott and Robert Mentzinger after being arrested. Creator and publisher unknown. Image courtesy National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey, used with permission.

September 11, 1934

Two Doofuses from Long Island Go Souvenir Hunting on the Wreck of the SS Morro Castle

by Joseph G. Bilby

Danny DeVito holds his Emmy award. Cropped screen capture from broadcast of Emmy awards, www.emmys.com. Consistent with Fair Use Doctrine.

September 13, 1981

Danny DeVito Wins The Emmy For Best Supporting Actor

Image: Test Pilot Ted Parsons of Little Silver walking away from yet another airplane crash in France, 1917. Original illustration by Charlie Swerdlow, History Depicted, ©2024, commissioned by Monmouth Timeline.

September 15, 1917

Theodore D. Parsons, World War I Test Pilot who Became New Jersey Attorney General

by John R. Barrows

Keyport Weekly sketch of fugitive mayor B.B. Ogden. Published prior to 1926, public domain.

September 16, 1903

Whatever Happened to B.B. Ogden, the Fugitive Mayor of Keyport?

by John R. Barrows

CPL Horace Marvin Thorne. U.S. Army image courtesy Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Public Domain.

December 21, 1944

Medal of Honor: Horace Marvin “Buddy” Thorne

The removal of President Garfield, with his physicians and attendants, from the White House to the Francklyn Cottage, at Elberon by the sea, September 6th. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, September 24, 1881, Library of Congress. Public domain.

September 19, 1881

U.S. President James A. Garfield Dies in Elberon

John R. Barrows