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U.S.-related events during the year of 1837
"Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defenses of the Western and Southwestern Frontier" published 1837 (NARA 77452208)
Events from the year 1837 in the United States .
Incumbents Events
March 4:
Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth U.S. president
Richard M. Johnson becomes the ninth U.S. vice president
January 6 –
DePauw University founded in Greencastle,
Indiana .
[1]
January 26 –
Michigan is admitted as the 26th
U.S. state (see
History of Michigan ).
February 4 –
Seminoles attack
Fort Foster .
February 8 –
Richard Johnson becomes the only
vice president of the United States chosen by the
United States Senate .
February 15 –
Knox College founded in
Galesburg ,
Illinois .
February 16 –
Lake County, Indiana is established by the European Americans.
[2]
February 25
March –
Victor Séjour 's short story "
Le Mulâtre ", the earliest known work of African American fiction, is published in the French abolitionist journal
Revue des Colonies .
March 4
May 10 –
Panic of 1837 :
New York City banks fail, and
unemployment reaches record levels.
June 5 –
Houston, Texas , is granted a city
charter .
June 11 – The
Broad Street Riot occurs in
Boston, Massachusetts , fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
July –
Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison . In the
Morrison incident , he is turned away from
Japanese ports with cannon fire.
July 31 – Groundbreaking ceremony for
St. Charles College (Louisiana) , the first
Jesuit college established in the South.
October – First publication of
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review .
[5]
[6] [
non-primary source needed ]
October 21 – General
Thomas Jesup captures
Seminole leader
Osceola under pretext of negotiations.
November 7 – In
Alton, Illinois , abolitionist printer
Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot and killed by a pro-
slavery mob while he attempts to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a fourth time.
November 8 –
Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which will later become
Mount Holyoke College .
John Deere (inventor) begins his agricultural implement manufacturing business,
John Deere , in
Grand Detour, Illinois .
The
Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in
Boston .
[7]
John Greenleaf Whittier 's first poetry book, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States , is published by Boston abolitionists.
Antonija Höffern becomes the first Slovene woman to immigrate to the United States.
[8] Ongoing Births
Grover Cleveland
January 9 –
Julius C. Burrows , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1895 to 1911 (died
1915 )
January 19 –
William Williams Keen , brain surgeon (died
1932 )
February 5 –
Dwight L. Moody , evangelist (died
1899 )
March 1 –
William Dean Howells , writer, historian, editor and politician (died
1920 )
March 7 –
Henry Draper , physician and astronomer (died
1882 )
March 18 –
Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th
president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897 (died
1908 )
March 27 –
Kate Fox , medium (died
1892 )
April 3 –
John Burroughs , nature writer (died
1921 )
April 10 – (Byron)
Forceythe Willson , poet (died
1867 )
April 17 –
J. P. Morgan , financier (died
1913 in Italy )
May 27 – James Butler
"Wild Bill" Hickok , gunfighter (killed
1876 )
May 28
June 22
June 25 –
Charles Yerkes , financier of rapid transit systems in Chicago and London (died 1905)
July 1 –
Henry Rathbone , military officer and diplomat (died
1911 in Germany )
July 21 –
Helen Appo Cook , African American community activist (died
1913 )
July 22 –
George N. Bliss ,
Medal of Honor recipient (died
1928 )
July 31 –
William Quantrill , Confederate leader during the
American Civil War (died
1865 )
August 30 –
Nell Arthur , wife of
Chester A. Arthur (died
1880 )
September 2 –
James H. Wilson , Union Army general in the Civil War (died
1925 )
September 8
October 10 –
Robert Gould Shaw , Union Army general in the Civil War and reformer (killed in action
1863 )
October 12 –
Preston B. Plumb , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (died
1891 )
October 29 –
Harriet Powers , African American folk artist (died
1910 )
November 3 –
John Leary , politician, 37th
Mayor of Seattle (died
1905 )
November 20 –
Lewis Waterman , inventor and businessman (died
1901 )
November 28 –
John Wesley Hyatt , inventor and industrial chemist (died
1920 )
December 10 –
Edward Eggleston , novelist and historian (died
1902 )
December 15 –
George B. Post , architect (died
1913 )
December 26
Deaths See also References
^
"Observes Anniversary" . The Tipton Daily Tribune . United Press International. January 6, 1969. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ William Frederick Howat (1915).
A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, Volume 1
^ U.S. Patent No. 132.
"Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism And Electro-Magnetism" . Google patents. Retrieved December 13, 2011 .
^
US patent 132 , Thomas Davenport, "Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-magnetism", issued February 25, 1837
^
"Making of America" .
Cornell University Library . Archived from
the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved March 14, 2013 .
^ "Introduction". Democratic Review : 43 v. October 1837.
hdl :
2027/coo.31924077700031 .
^
"A Brief History of Little, Brown and Company" . New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2012. Archived from
the original on July 18, 2013. Retrieved March 14, 2013 . [
self-published source ]
^ Glonar, Joža (2013).
"Höffern, Antonija, pl. (1803–1871)" . Slovenian Biographical Lexicon (in Slovenian).
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Retrieved May 5, 2023 .
^
"Summary of Life of Mary F. McCray: Born and Raised a Slave in the State of Kentucky" . docsouth.unc.edu . Retrieved August 31, 2022 .
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