A number of notable performers made appearances, including local celebrity Hallie Parrish Hinges, artist/political cartoonist Thomas Nast, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison and John Philip Sousa's band.
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), who came to America from Germany as a child created the white-bearded Santa Claus with a pack on his back, combining St. Nicholas and Knecht Ruprecht.
The Thomas Nast Home, also known as Villa Fontana, was the home of Thomas Nast in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
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The modern American version of the suit can be attributed to the work of Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly magazine, although it is often incorrectly thought that Haddon Sundblom designed the suit in his advertising work for the Coca-Cola Company.
In the 1870s, the cartoonist Thomas Nast began an aggressive campaign in the journal against the corrupt New York political leader William “Boss” Tweed.