Harlem Timeline

also, check out the Newsgirls' Timeline, a master timeline for all the Lodging Houses.

1895

May 8

Harlem Newsboys' Lodging House founded

November 17

Shiner Sanderson joins Harlem newsboys

May 30	Sham Delanie joins Harlem newsboys
July 11	Sticks O'Leary joins Harlem newsboys
July 28	Flash McAllen, Blue Skies Costello, and Chance Costello join Harlem newsboys
Aug. 23	Verity Fowler, and Hustler Fowler join Harlem newsboys
Dec. 5	Imp Harris joins Harlem newsboys

March 31	Greaser O'Malley joins Harlem newsboys
Sept. 2	Harlem Newsgirls' Lodging House founded, led by Blue Skies Costello and Flash McAllen, original girls include Imp Harris, Verity Fowler, Searcher

April 19	Needle Hill joins East Harlem newsboys
Sept. 12	Smoke Schaefer joins Harlem newsgirls
Sept. 28	Spider McKennah joins Harlem newsgirls

July 5	Hustler Fowler, after holding several small jobs in and around Harlem, other than selling papers, moves to the Lower East Side to work at Mama Nuss's Restaurant
Aug. 17	Ruby Gallagher joins Harlem newsgirls
Aug. 30	Knuckles Callahan joins East Harlem newsboys
Sept. 8	Sketch Meeks joins Harlem newsgirls
Sept. 9	Griffin Cohen joins East Harlem newsboys
Sept. 17	Fingers Mulcahy joins Harlem newsgirls
Sept. 22	Red Anderson, leader of East Harlem newsboys, is caught by police and returned to his parents who send to boarding school in Connecticut
Oct. 9	Knuckles Callahan becomes leader of East Harlem newsboys
Dec. 15	Pixie McClure joins Harlem newsgirls

July 8

Hammer Brown joins East Harlem newsboys

Jan. 6	Quill Swipple joins Harlem newsgirls
Jan. 11	Meggie Lewis joins Harlem newsgirls
March 13	Meggie Lewis leaves the Harlem newsgirls
April 21	Verity Fowler begins working Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at Literary Pursuits, a new bookstore near St. Nicholas Park, but still sells newspapers the rest of the week
May 30	Stitches Baranski leaves the East Harlem newsboys' lodging house for parts unknown.
June 10	Memphis and Cody McGowan depart the East Harlem newsboys' lodging house.
June 20	Needle shocks all of East Harlem by bringing home his three year old daughter Karry.
Aug. 6	Pistol Conroy returns to Colorado and leaves the East Harlem newsboys' lodging house.
Oct. 2	Bay Miller joins the Harlem newsgirls.
Dec. 16	Smoke Schaefer and Hammer Brown elope.
Dec. 27	Mace McIntyre attacks Ruby Gallagher in Queens.

Apr. 7	Ruby Gallagher was married to Four Eyes O'Malley and left the Harlem Newsgirls
Oct. 16	William Ryan O'Malley junior is born
June	Zachary Pol packed up his things and disappeared one day in June 1903. Shortly afterwards, Lieutenant Lansing came looking for him.
July 24	Fib Wilcox joins the East Harlem Newsboys.
August 18	Carmella Hill is born to Needle and Amarilla in Greenwich Village.
Feb. 26	Circus Monahan reunites with his love, Maddie, and returns to Washington, D.C. with her.
Dec. 25	After two years of dating, Noah Kingston proposes to Verity Fowler. She says yes, and they begin making plans for an August 31 wedding.

Feb. 16	Quill Hammond and Cordelia Williamston go to work as seamstresses at a shirtwaist factory
March 20	Jace Valone has her baby and moves in with her grandparents in Long Island.
	Spider McKennah gets into trouble with the cops and hurriedly leaves town.
March 21	Upon finding more profitable business opportunities outside of the city, Doc Guerra leaves Harlem.
August	Fingers Mulcahy and Blind Diamond Connor break off their engagement, and Fingers leaves Harlem.
December 20	Midge Gambino leaves Harlem.