Much of the information in this website comes from scouring contemporary news reports, especially after 1841 when the Brooklyn Daily Eagle began publishing. As a work in progress, it may receive periodic updates. Special thanks go to Rodney Henson, Zolt Nagy, Bill Schulz, Joe Ryan, and Lorin Bruckner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for their help making the underlying database and website usable.

The project began as a relational database in Microsoft Access to capture the networked social and commercial world of mid nineteenth century Brooklyn and especially those persons and events in the orbit of Luther B. Wyman. Most notations come from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the New York Times. Brooklyn and Manhattan city directories provided home and business addresses and were used to track changes in location over time. Not all spellings were standardized in the nineteenth century, so variants can occur. As a working research tool, the data is not comprehensive and may contain errors.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations used include the following:

BAA = Brooklyn Art Association
BAM = Brooklyn Academy of Music
BB = Blackball Line
BE = Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BD = Brooklyn Directory
BHS = Brooklyn Horticultural Society
BPS = Brooklyn Philharmonic Society
NES = New England Society
NYT = New York Times