1837 in the United States 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
Andrew Jackson (D -Tennessee ) (until March 4)Martin Van Buren (D -New York ) (starting March 4)Martin Van Buren (D -New York ) (until March 4)Richard M. Johnson (D -Kentucky ) (starting March 4)
Events
March 4: Martin Van Buren becomes the eighth U.S. president Richard M. Johnson becomes the ninth U.S. vice presidentJanuary 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 17 – Hugh McVay is sworn in as the 9th governor of Alabama following the resignation of Clement Comer Clay .
July 31 – Groundbreaking ceremony for St. Charles College (Louisiana) , the first Jesuit college established in the South.
August 7 – Arthur P. Bagby is elected the tenth governor of Alabama defeating Samuel W. Oliver .
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.
October 31 – The steamboat Monmouth disaster on the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge kills over 300 Muscogee being forcibly relocated to the Indian Territory .[ 7]
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 .
November 21 – Arthur P. Bagby is sworn in as the tenth governor of Alabama replacing Hugh McVay .[ 8]
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 .[ 9]
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.[ 10]
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 . ^ "BR researcher explores Monmouth steamboat disaster" . The Advocate . November 17, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2024 .^ Ala. General Assembly. Journal of the Senate . 1837 sess., 36 , accessed July 28, 2023
^ "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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