Vach Lewis

male, deceased (1908)
Jewish American, ConeyIsland, murdered, paul kelly, mobster, Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach
Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis (d. May 14, 1908) was an early New York gangster and member of the Eastman Gang under Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach. Born...
Louis Pioggi

Louis Pioggi

male, 120 years old
Gang member of New York City, convicted of murder, Eastman Gang, Historical gang member of New York City, murderer, Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach…ConeyIsland
Louis "Louie the Lump" Pioggi ["Poggi"] (1889 - ?) was a New York criminal and member of the Five Points Gang, known most prominently for the...
David O'Karma

David O'Karma

male
Competitive eater, American competitive eaters, Competitive Eating, egg, WCUE, hotdog…ConeyIsland
David "Coondog" O'Karma is a competitive eating champion, entertainer, and writer from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He has held world records in doughnut,...
Eugene Augustin Lauste

Eugene Augustin Lauste

male, deceased (1935)
inventor, Montmartre, Kinetoscope, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, The Father of Sound on Film, American Biograph Company…ConeyIsland
Eugene Augustin Lauste (born 1857 in Montmartre, France; died June 27, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) "The Father of Sound on Film", was an...

Mike Abrams

male, deceased (1898)
from New York City, chinatown, ConeyIsland, American, murder victim, Pell Street
"Big" Mike Abrams (d. 1898) was a New York criminal and a longtime figure in the underworld of New York's Chinatown. A criminal for hire of the...

William R. Travers

male, deceased (1887)
from Baltimore, long island sound, Wall Street, sprint, ConeyIsland, lawyer…Travers Island
William R. Travers (July, 1819 - March 19, 1887) was an American lawyer who made a fortune on Wall Street. Along with John Hunter, in 1863 he...
Arthur Dake

Arthur Dake

male, deceased (2000)
Jewish, Polish-American, Marshall Chess Club, Wall Street Crash of 1929, Chess Olympiad, draughts…ConeyIsland
Arthur Dake (Darkowski) was an American chess master. He was born in Portland, Oregon and died in Reno, Nevada. He was born into a Polish-Jewish...

Marion Bromley

female, deceased (1996)
internal revenue service, tax resister, ConeyIsland, American, nee, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Marion Bromley "nee" Coddington (10 October 1912 - 21 January 1996) was a pioneer of the modern American tax resistance movement and a civil rights...
Stephan Bibrowski

Stephan Bibrowski

male, deceased (1932)
German, barnum and bailey, ConeyIsland, lion, sideshow, Sideshow attraction
Stephan Bibrowski (1891-1932) better known as Lionel the Lion-Faced Man was a famous sideshow performer. His whole body was covered with long hair...
Elmer Scipio Dundy

Elmer Scipio Dundy

male, deceased (1896)
ConeyIsland, buffalo bill cody, Nebraska Territory, Nebraska state court judge, Nebraskan, Elmer “Skip” Dundy
Elmer Scipio Dundy was a Nebraskan judge best known as the namesake of Dundy County, Nebraska. He was born in Trumbull County, Ohio on March 5th,...