Betsy and I met last fall while jogging in Central Park.
He died on the 2nd of April 1872, at New York, where his statue in bronze now stands in the Central Park.
Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York City; he was a member of the state senate in 1850-1853 and procured the passage of the bill providing for the establishment of Central Park in New York City; in 1855-1858 he was state commissioner of immigration; from 1859 to 1863 he was governor of New York, being the first Republican executive of the state; in 1863-1869 he was United States senator from New York.
Michael Jeter was in The Fisher King, playing the memorable damsel in distress in Central Park.
Olmsted himself suffered from depression, an affliction for which he was twice hospitalized during the construction of Central Park.
