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List of events
Events from the year 1852 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Henry W. Collier (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
John Selden Roane (
Democratic ) (until November 15),
Elias Nelson Conway (
Democratic ) (starting November 15)
Governor of California :
John McDougall (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
John Bigler (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut :
Thomas H. Seymour (
Democratic )
Governor of Delaware :
William H. H. Ross (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Thomas Brown (
Whig )
Governor of Georgia :
Howell Cobb (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Augustus C. French (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
Joseph A. Wright (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Stephen P. Hempstead (
Democratic )
Governor of Kentucky :
Lazarus W. Powell (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Joseph Marshall Walker (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
John Hubbard (
Democratic )
Governor of Maryland :
Enoch Louis Lowe (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
George S. Boutwell (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
John S. Barry (
Democratic ) (until January 1),
Robert McClelland (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Mississippi :
James Whitfield (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Henry S. Foote (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Missouri :
Austin Augustus King (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (
Democratic ) (until June 3),
Noah Martin (
Democratic ) (starting June 3)
Governor of New Jersey :
George F. Fort (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Washington Hunt (
Whig ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
David Settle Reid (
Democratic )
Governor of Ohio :
Reuben Wood (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William F. Johnston (
Whig ) (until January 20),
William Bigler (
Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Philip Allen (
Democratic )
Governor of South Carolina :
John Hugh Means (
Democratic ) (until December 9),
John Lawrence Manning (
Democratic ) (starting December 9)
Governor of Tennessee :
William B. Campbell (
Whig )
Governor of Texas :
Peter Hansborough Bell (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
Charles K. Williams (
Whig ) (until October),
Erastus Fairbanks (
Whig ) (starting October)
Governor of Virginia :
John B. Floyd (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
Joseph Johnson (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Wisconsin :
Nelson Dewey (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
Leonard J. Farwell (
Whig ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant governors
Events
January 15 – Nine men representing various
Hebrew
charitable organizations come together to form what will become the
Mount Sinai Hospital in
New York City .
February 16 – The
Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company, precursor of the
automobile manufacturer, is established.
February 19 – The
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at
Jefferson College in
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania .
March 2 – The first American experimental steam
fire engine is tested.
[1]
March 4 – The
Phi Mu fraternity is established at
Wesleyan College .
March 20 –
Uncle Tom's Cabin by
Harriet Beecher Stowe is first published in book form, in
Boston .
April 23 – More than 150
Wintu people are killed by a militia under the guidance of
Trinity County sheriff William H. Dixon in the
Bridge Gulch Massacre .
July 1 – American statesman
Henry Clay is the first to receive the honor of
lying in state in the
United States Capitol rotunda .
July 5 –
Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech on "
The Hypocrisy of American Slavery " in
Rochester, New York .
August 3 – The first
Boat Race between
Yale and
Harvard , the first American intercollegiate athletic event, is held.
September 15 –
Loyola College opens its doors to students in the City of
Baltimore, Maryland .
November 2 –
U.S. presidential election, 1852 :
Democrat
Franklin Pierce of
New Hampshire defeats
Whig
Winfield Scott of
New Jersey .
November 25 –
Monticello Convention : 44 people from the northern parts of
Oregon Territory meet and draft a petition to establish a separate territorial government north of the
Columbia River (which becomes, in the following months,
Washington Territory ).
[2]
Undated
In
Hawaii sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3 or 5 year contracts, giving them 3 dollars per month plus room and board for working a 12-hour day, 6 days a week.
Loyola College in Maryland is chartered in
Baltimore .
Tufts University is founded in
Medford, Massachusetts .
Mills College is founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in
Benicia, California .
Justin Perkins , an American
Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the
Bible in
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic , which is published with the parallel text of the
Syriac
Peshitta by the
American Bible Society .
Lowell, Indiana is incorporated
Westminster College , a Presbyterian Liberal Arts School, is founded New Wilmington, PA.
Ongoing
Births
January 8 –
James Milton Carroll , Baptist pastor, leader, historian and author (died
1931 )
January 11 –
Elnora Monroe Babcock , suffragist (died
1934 )
January 14 –
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks , wife of
Charles W. Fairbanks ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1913 )
February 16 –
Charles Taze Russell , Christian restorationist minister (died
1916 )
February 18 –
Ferdinand Lee Barnett , African American journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist (died
1936 )
February 26 –
John Harvey Kellogg , Adventist doctor and health reformer (died
1943 )
March 12 –
Mary Catherine Judd , educator, children's author, peace activist (died
1930s )
March 25 –
Charles Loomis Dana , neurologist (died
1935 )
April 1 –
Edwin Austin Abbey , painter and illustrator (died
1911 )
April 13 –
F. W. Woolworth , merchant and businessman (died
1919 )
April 23 –
Edwin Markham , poet (died
1940 )
May 1 –
Calamity Jane , frontierswoman (died
1903 )
May 11 –
Charles W. Fairbanks , 26th
vice president of the United States from 1905 till 1909 and United States Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (died
1918 )
May 14 –
Alton B. Parker , judge and Democratic political candidate (died
1926 )
May 18 –
Gertrude Käsebier , née Stanton, one of the most influential American portrait photographers of the early 20th century (died
1934 )
May 23 –
Weldon B. Heyburn , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1903 to 1912 (died
1912 )
June 22 –
Mary Canfield Ballard , poet and hymnwriter (died
1927 )
July 4
August 16 –
Charles Sanger Mellen , railroad manager (died
1927 )
September 15 –
Edward Bouchet , African American physicist (died
1918 )
October 25 –
Byron Andrews , journalist, statesman, author and businessman (died
1910 )
October 30 –
Jane Kelley Adams , educator (died
1924 )
October 31 –
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , short-story and children's fiction writer and poet (died
1930 )
November 1 –
Eugene W. Chafin , politician (died
1920 )
November 10 –
Henry van Dyke , author, poet, educator and clergyman (died
1933 )
November 15 –
Ella Maria Ballou , writer (d.
1937 )
November 16 –
Joseph R. Burton , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1901 to 1906 (died
1923 )
Deaths
February 14 –
Thomas Carlin , 7th
Governor of Illinois from 1838 to 1842 (born
1789 )
February 24 –
John Frazee , first American-born sculptor to execute a bust in marble (born
1790 )
March 9 –
Anson Dickinson , painter of miniature portraits (born
1779 )
April 10 –
John Howard Payne , actor, playwright, author and consul in
Tunis from 1842, lyricist for "
Home! Sweet Home! " (born
1791 )
[3]
May 6 –
William Bellinger Bulloch , U.S. Senator from Georgia in 1813 (born
1777 )
May 15 –
Louisa Adams ,
First Lady of the United States as wife of
John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829 (born
1775 )
May 18 –
Briscoe Baldwin , planter and
Virginia politician (born
1789 )
June 8 –
Perry Smith , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1837 to 1843 (born
1783 )
June 17 –
William King , merchant, shipbuilder, army officer and statesman (born
1768 )
June 29 –
Henry Clay , U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1806–1807, 1810–1811, 1831–1842 and 1849–1852 (born 1777)
July 19 –
John McKinley , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1826 to 1831 and in 1837, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1852 (born
1780 )
August 14 –
Margaret Taylor ,
First Lady of the United States as wife of
Zachary Taylor (born
1788 )
September 20 –
Philander Chase , Episcopal Church bishop, educator, pioneer of the western frontier and founder of Kenyon College (born
1775 )
September 23 –
John Vanderlyn , neoclassical painter (born
1775 )
October 4 –
James Whitcomb , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1849 to 1852 (born
1795 )
October 13 –
John Lloyd Stephens , traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (born
1805 )
October 24 –
Daniel Webster , U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born
1782 )
October 25 –
John C. Clark , politician (born
1793 )
November 18 –
John Andrew Shulze , politician (born
1775 )
November 24 –
Walter Forward , lawyer and politician, 15th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1841 to 1843 (born
1786 )
November 30 –
Junius Brutus Booth , actor, father of
John Wilkes Booth and
Edwin Booth (born
1796 in England )
December 13 –
Frances Wright , freethinker (born
1795 in Scotland )
December 18 –
Horatio Greenough , sculptor (born
1805 )
See also
References
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