1837 in the United States

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Events from the year 1837 in the United States of America.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee) (until March 4), Martin Van Buren (D-New York) (starting March 4)
  • Vice President: Martin Van Buren (D-New York) (until March 4), Richard M. Johnson (D-Kentucky) (starting March 4)
  • Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: James K. Polk (D-Tennessee)
  • Congress: 24th (until March 4), 25th (starting March 4)

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 was organized by the Indiana General Assembly.
  • February 25
    • In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of coloreds.
    • Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.[2][3][non-primary source needed]
  • 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
    • Martin Van Buren is sworn in as the eighth President of the United States, and Richard M. Johnson is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
    • Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.
  • 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.[4][5][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.[6]
  • 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.

Ongoing[]

  • Second Seminole War (1835–1842)

Births[]

  • 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 26 – Washington Roebling, civil engineer (died 1926)
  • May 27 – James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, gunfighter (killed 1876)
  • May 28
    • Samuel D. McEnery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1897 to 1910 (died 1910)
    • Tony Pastor, impresario and theater owner (died 1908)
  • June 22
    • Paul Morphy, chess player (died 1884)
    • Touch the Clouds, Native American Miniconjou chief 7 feet tall (died 1905)
  • 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
    • Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Heine Miller, "Poet of the Sierras" (died 1913)
    • Raphael Pumpelly, geologist and explorer (died 1923)
  • 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
    • Morgan Bulkeley, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1905 to 1911 (died 1922)
    • George Dewey, U.S. Admiral of the Navy (died 1917)

Deaths[]

  • September 28 – David Barton, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1821 to 1831 (born 1783)
  • October 1 – Robert Clark, politician (born 1777)
  • October 9 – Oliver H. Prince, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1828 to 1829 (born 1787)
  • November 7 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, abolitionist (born 1809)
  • November 11 – Thomas Green Fessenden, poet (born 1771)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Observes Anniversary". The Tipton Daily Tribune. United Press International. January 6, 1969. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ U.S. Patent No. 132. "Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism And Electro-Magnetism". Google patents. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
  3. ^ US patent 132, Thomas Davenport, "Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-magnetism", issued February 25, 1837 
  4. ^ "Making of America". Cornell University Library. Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  5. ^ "Introduction". October 1837: 1–3. hdl:2027/coo.31924077700031. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "A Brief History of Little, Brown and Company". New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2012. Archived from the original on July 18, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-14.[self-published source]

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