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List of events
Events from the year 1839 in the United States.
Incumbents
Events
- February 11 – The
University of Missouri is established in
Columbia, Missouri, becoming the first public university west of the
Mississippi River.
- March 5 –
Longwood University is founded in
Farmville,
Virginia.
- March 7 –
Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in
Baltimore,
Maryland.
- March 23 – The
Boston Morning Post first records the use of "OK".
- August 8 – The
Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in
Oxford, Ohio.
- September 9 – In the Great Fire of
Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
- October –
Robert Cornelius takes the first photographic self portrait in the United States.
- November 11 – The
Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington,
Virginia.
- November 27 – In
Boston, Massachusetts, the
American Statistical Association is founded.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- February 9 –
Laura Redden Searing, deaf poet and journalist (died
1923)
- March 9 –
Phoebe Knapp, hymn writer (d.
1908)
- April 7 –
David Baird, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1918 to 1919 (died
1927)
- July 8 –
John D. Rockefeller, oil industry business magnate and philanthropist (died
1937)
- August 1 –
Middleton P. Barrow, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1882 to 1883 (died
1903)
- August 23 –
George Clement Perkins, U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1915 (died
1923)
- August 26 –
Hernando Money, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1897 to 1911 (died
1912)
- September 2 –
Henry George, writer, politician and political economist (died
1897)
- September 10 –
Charles Sanders Peirce, philosopher, logician, scientist, and founder of pragmatism (died
1912)
- September 13 –
Thomas J. Mastin, Confederate captain and lawyer (d.
1861)
- September 18 –
William J. McConnell, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1891 (died
1925)
- September 28 –
Frances Willard, American educator, temperance reformer and women's suffragist (died
1898)
- September 29 –
James Kimbrough Jones, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1885 to 1903 (died
1908)
- October 20 –
Augustus Octavius Bacon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1895 to 1914 (died
1914)
- November 4 –
Thomas M. Patterson, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1901 to 1907 (died
1916)
- December 5 –
George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army Officer and Cavalry Commander from Ohio from 1861 to 1876 (died
1876)
- December 12 –
Caroline Ingalls (b. Caroline Lake Quiner), American pioneer, mother of author
Laura Ingalls Wilder (died
1924)
Deaths
- January 14 –
John Wesley Jarvis, portrait painter (born c.
1781 in Great Britain)
- February 26 –
Sybil Ludington, heroine of the
American Revolutionary War (born
1761)
- April 1 –
Benjamin Pierce, governor of
New Hampshire from 1827 to 1828 and from 1829 to 1830, father of the 14th
president of the United States,
Franklin Pierce (born
1757)
- April 2 –
Hezekiah Niles, magazine publisher (born
1777)
- April 5 –
John Tipton, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1832 to 1839 (born
1786)
- April 22 –
Samuel Smith, U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1822 to 1833 (born
1752)
- May 11 –
Thomas Cooper, political philosopher (born
1759)
- June 10 –
Nathaniel Hale Pryor, sergeant in the
Lewis and Clark Expedition (born
1772)
- July 16 –
The Bowl (Di'wali), Cherokee chief, shot (born c.
1756)
- August 22 –
Benjamin Lundy, abolitionist (born
1789)
- September 28 –
William Dunlap, actor-manager, dramatist and painter (born
1766)
- December 4 –
John Leamy, merchant (born
1757 in Ireland)
See also
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