January 29, 1811: Martha Furnace iron forge clerk Caleb Earle noted: “Finished killing hogs about sunset. Hands kept sober. Cross driving his team. It was said Cross put his wife out of doors and told her to seek ‘lodgins.’”
January 29, 1833: Alexander Vandoni was born in Italy. Although most Italian immigrants came to the United States in the years after the Civil War, Vandoni emigrated in 1841, eventually settling in Chatham as a self employed broom maker. In 1862 he volunteered to serve as a musician in the Twenty-seventh New Jersey Volunteer Infantry for nine months service. After campaigns in Virginia and Kentucky, Vandoni was discharged with his regiment in 1863, and returned to Chatham as one of a relatively small number of Italian-American Civil War veterans.
