Ellsworth was a poet and frequent contributor to The Knickerbocker magazine.
According to The Knickerbocker Magazine in 1849, Lumley was involved in composer circles, including opera singer, director and composer Signor Giuseppe De Begnis of London and New York, and Thomas Moore of London.
It was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.
Charles T. Barney (1850–1907), President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company
In 1907, the Knickerbocker entered into a deal organized by speculators F. Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse to corner the market of the United Copper Company.
Then he became Manager of the Knickerbocker Subscription Agency, and President of the Spring Creek and Rockerville Water and Mining Company of South Dakota.
The Knickerbocker Greys was founded by Mrs. Augusta Lawler Stacey Curtis, the wife of Dr. Edward Curtis, a noted New York physician who served on the staff of the Surgeon General of the Union Army, and assisted in the autopsy on the body of President Abraham Lincoln.
The Knickerbocker is named for a fictional character, Diedrich Knickerbocker, from Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of New York a spoof on the imagined colony of New Netherland.
The Palisades Interstate Park Commission acquired a large extent of property around Rockland Lake State Park and along the Hudson River in 1963 to preserve the Knickerbocker Ice Company’s accomplishments and contributions to the ice industry.