1825 in the United States

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The following are events from the year 1825 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: James Monroe (DR-Virginia) (until March 4), John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts) (starting March 4)
  • Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York) (until March 4), John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina) (starting March 4)
  • Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky) (until March 4), John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (starting December 5)
  • Congress: 18th (until March 4), 19th (starting March 4)

Events[]

March 4: John Quincy Adams becomes the sixth U.S. President
John C. Calhoun becomes the seventh U.S. Vice President

January–March[]

  • January 10 – Indianapolis becomes the capital of Indiana (moved from Corydon, Indiana).
  • February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of U.S. Electoral College votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election.
  • February 12 – Treaty of Indian Springs: The , led by William McIntosh, cedes a large amount of Creek territory in Georgia to the United States government.
  • March 4 – John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth President of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
  • March 17 – The Norfolk & Dedham Group is founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

April–June[]

  • April 30 – Upper Creek chief Menawa leads an attack that assassinates William McIntosh for signing the Treaty of Indian Springs.
  • May 11 – American Tract Society is founded.
  • June 3 – Kansa Nation cedes its territory to the United States (see History of Kansas).
  • June 11 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.

July–September[]

  • July 14 – The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society is founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct in Room 7, West Lawn, of the University of Virginia.
  • August 19 – First Treaty of Prairie du Chien at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

October–December[]

  • October 26 – The Erie Canal opens, granting passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
  • November 7 – Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 Missouri Shawnees are forcibly relocated from Missouri to Kansas. (See History of Kansas)
  • November 12 – New Echota designated capital of the Cherokee Nation.
  • November 26 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society as the first college social fraternity (it is the first to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups).

Undated[]

  • The Osage Nation cedes traditional lands by treaty.
  • The Cherokee Nation officially adopts Sequoyah's syllabary.
  • Vancouver, Washington is established by Dr. John McLoughlin on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company.
  • Ypsilanti, Michigan is established.
  • Vicksburg, Mississippi is incorporated.
  • New Harmony, Indiana established as a social experiment, built by the Harmony Society and sold to Robert Owen.
  • The United States Postal Service starts a dead letter office.
  • Centenary College of Louisiana is founded in Jackson, Louisiana. The campus later moves to Shreveport, Louisiana.

Ongoing[]

  • Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)
  • John Neal publishing serially the first written history of American literature (1824-1825)[1]

Births[]

  • January 5 – John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (died 1900)
  • January 11
    • Clement V. Rogers, Cherokee politician and father of Will Rogers (died 1911)
    • Bayard Taylor, poet and travel writer (died 1878)
  • January 25 – George Pickett, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died 1876)
  • February 11 – Frank Pidgeon, baseball pitcher (died 1884)
  • April 7 – John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (died 1900)
  • April 17 – Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (died 1886)
  • June 1 – John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died 1864)
  • July 2 – Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet (died 1903)
  • July 10 – Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor (died 1861)
  • July 15 – Joseph Carter Abbott, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1868 to 1871 (died 1881)
  • July 19 – George H. Pendleton, politician (died 1889)
  • August 7 – Jacob Wrey Mould, New York architect, illustrator, linguist and musician (died 1886)[2]
  • August 10 – Edmund Spangler, carpenter and stagehand employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (died 1875)
  • September 13 – William Henry Rinehart, sculptor (died 1874)
  • September 17 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1893)
  • September 24 – Frances Harper, née Watkins, African American poet and abolitionist (died 1911)
  • October 8 – Paschal Beverly Randolph, occultist (died 1875)
  • November 9 – A. P. Hill, Confederate general (killed 1865 in the American Civil War)
  • December 18 – John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871 (died 1906)
  • December 30
    • Newton Booth, U.S. Senator from California from 1875 to 1881 (died 1892)
    • Samuel Newitt Wood, politician (died 1891)

Deaths[]

  • January 8 – Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine (born 1765)
  • March 1 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky (born 1753)
  • March 4 – Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War (born 1740)
  • March 25 – Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter (born 1774)
  • June 1 – Daniel Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (born 1774)
  • June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer (born 1764)
  • June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer (born 1754 in France)
  • August 16 – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier (born 1746)
  • August 27 – Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet (born 1808; died of consumption)
  • December 28 – James Wilkinson, soldier and statesman (born 1757)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937). "Preface". In Pattee, Fred Lewis (ed.). American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824-1825). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. v. OCLC 464953146.
  2. ^ MacKay, Robert B.; Baker, Anthony K.; Traynor, Carol A. (1997). Long Island country houses and their architects, 1860-1940. Norton. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-393-03856-9.

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