Weird History: 38

Three Dilly’s

The Woodstock Festival was actually held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles southwest of Woodstock, New York.

In 1862, Congress passed a law requiring both Houses of Congress to be docked a day’s wages for each day’s absence. More than 159 years later, and that law has only been enforced twice.

President Martin Van Buren wrote his autobiography in 1862, the last year of his life. Van Buren overlooked one aspect of his life, the fact that he had been married. He never mentioned his wife, Hannah Hoes, in the book not even once.

On A Side Note: In 1872, criminals Patrick Morrissey, was convicted of stabbing his mother to death, along with Jack Gaffney, were hanged by the sheriff of Erie County in New York who went by the name: The Buffalo Hangman. In 1885, this notorious hangman became well known by another name: President Grover Cleveland.