^Wiley, Edgar J. (1917). Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, 1800-1915. Middlebury: Middlebury College. pp. 22–23.
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Burnett Democratic until January 9 John McDougall Democratic starting January 9 Governor of Connecticut Thomas H Seymour Democratic Governor of Delaware William Tharp Democratic until January 21 William H H Ross Democratic starting January 21 Governor of Florida Thomas Brown Whig Governor of Georgia George W Towns Democratic until November 5 Howell Cobb Democratic starting November 5 Governor of Illinois Augustus C French Democratic Governor of Indiana Joseph A Wright Democratic Governor of Iowa Stephen P Hempstead Democratic Governor of Kentucky John L Helm Democratic until September 2 Lazarus W Powell Democratic starting September 2 Governor of Louisiana Joseph Marshall Walker Democratic Governor of Maine John Hubbard Democratic Governor of Maryland Philip F Thomas Democratic until January 6 Enoch Louis Lowe Democratic starting January 6 Governor of Massachusetts George N Briggs Democratic until January 11 George S Boutwell Democratic starting January 11 Governor of Michigan John S Barry Democratic Governor of Mississippi until February 3 John A Quitman Democratic February 3 November 4 John I Guion Democratic starting November 24 James Whitfield Democratic Governor of Missouri Austin Augustus King Democratic Governor of New Hampshire Samuel Dinsmoor Jr Democratic Governor of New Jersey Daniel Haines Democratic until January 21 George F Fort Democratic starting January 21 Governor of New York Washington Hunt Whig starting January 1 Governor of North Carolina Charles Manly Whig until January 1 David Settle Reid Democratic starting January 1 Governor of Ohio Reuben Wood Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania William F Johnston Whig Governor of Rhode Island Henry B Anthony Whig until May 6 Philip Allen Democratic starting May 6 Governor of South Carolina John Hugh Means Democratic Governor of Tennessee William Trousdale Democratic until October 16 William B Campbell Whig starting October 16 Governor of Texas Peter Hansborough Bell Democratic Governor of Vermont Charles K Williams Whig Governor of Virginia John B Floyd Democratic Governor of Wisconsin Nelson Dewey Democratic Lieutenant governors edit Lieutenant Governor of California John McDougall Democratic until January 9 David C Broderick Democratic starting January 9 Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut Charles H Pond Democratic until month and day unknown Green Kendrick Whig starting month and day unknown Lieutenant Governor of Illinois William McMurtry Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Indiana James H Lane Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky vacant until September 2 John Burton Thompson political party unknown starting September 2 Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Jean Baptiste Plauche Whig Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts John Reed Jr political party unknown until January 11 Henry W Cushman political party unknown starting January 11 Lieutenant Governor of Michigan William M Fenton Democratic until month and day unknown vacant starting month and day unknown Lieutenant Governor of Missouri Thomas Lawson Price Democratic Lieutenant Governor of New York Sanford E Church Democratic starting January 1 Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island Thomas Whipple political party unknown until May 6 William Beach Lawrence political party unknown starting May 6 Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Joshua John Ward Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Texas John Alexander Greer Democratic until August 4 James Wilson Henderson Democratic starting August 4 Lieutenant Governor of Vermont Julius Converse Whig Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin Samuel W Beall Democratic Events editJanuary March edit January 15 Christian Female College later Columbia College receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly January 23 The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston Massachusetts or Portland Maine with Portland winning January 28 The Illinois General Assembly grants a charter to create Northwestern University April June edit April 9 San Luis the oldest permanent settlement in the state of Colorado is founded by settlers from Taos New Mexico April 28 Santa Clara College is chartered in Santa Clara California May August The Great Flood of 1851 causes extensive damage in the Midwest the town of Des Moines is virtually destroyed May 6 John Gorrie of Apalachicola Florida is granted Patent No 8080 for a machine to make ice May 15 Alpha Delta Pi sorority the first secret society for women is founded at Wesleyan College in Macon Georgia May 29 Sojourner Truth delivers the first version of her Ain t I a Woman speech at the Women s Rights Convention in Akron Ohio July September edit July 10 The University of the Pacific is chartered as California Wesleyan College in Santa Clara California August 1 Virginia closes its Reform Constitutional Convention deciding that all white men have the right to vote August 3 The filibustering Lopez Expedition departs New Orleans for Cuba August 22 The yacht America of the New York Yacht Club wins the first America s Cup race off the coast of England September 15 Saint Joseph s University is founded in Philadelphia Pennsylvania September 18 The New York Times is founded October December edit October 15 The City of Winona Minnesota is founded November 13 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point the first settlers of what later becomes Seattle Washington November 14 Herman Melville s novel Moby Dick or The Whale is published in the U S by Harper amp Brothers New York after being first published on October 18 in London by Richard Bentley in 3 volumes as The Whale December 29 The first YMCA opens in Boston Massachusetts Undated edit Western Union is founded as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company House sparrows first released in the U S in Brooklyn Stephen Foster s minstrel song Old Folks at Home is first published Hope College is established in Holland Michigan as the Pioneer School by Dutch immigrants Ongoing edit California Gold Rush 1848 1855 Births editJanuary 17 A B Frost illustrator died 1928 January 19 David Starr Jordan ichthyologist educator eugenicist and peace activist died 1924 January 24 Marcus A Smith U S Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 died 1924 February 2 Ella Giles Ruddy author and essayist died 1917 February 9 Nora Trueblood Gause humanitarian died 1955 February 13 Joseph B Murdock U S Navy admiral and New Hampshire politician died 1931 March 14 John Sebastian Little politician congressman died 1916 March 19 William Henry Stark business leader died 1936 March 26 John Eisenmann Cleveland architect died 1924 April 13 Robert Abbe surgeon died 1928 Helen M Winslow editor author and publisher died 1938 May 14 Anna Laurens Dawes author and suffragist died 1938 May 15 Lillian Resler Keister Harford church organizer and editor died 1935 May 21 Moses E Clapp U S Senator from Minnesota from 1901 to 1917 died 1929 May 29 Fred Dubois U S Senator from Idaho from 1891 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 died 1930 June 24 Stuyvesant Fish entrepreneur died 1923 August 12 Frank O Briggs U S Senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913 died 1913 August 14 Doc Holliday born John H Holliday gunfighter gambler and dentist died 1887 September 7 David King Udall politician died 1938 September 13 Walter Reed army physician bacteriologist died 1902 1 September 21 Fanny Searls died 1939 doctor and botanist 2 October 5 Thomas Pollock Anshutz painter and educator died 1912 October 13 Charles Sprague Pearce painter died 1914 October 20 George Gandy entrepreneur died 1946 November 16 Minnie Hauk operatic soprano died 1929 William Elbridge Sewell naval officer and Governor of Guam died 1904 December 9 Thomas H Paynter U S Senator from Kentucky from 1907 to 1913 died 1921 December 10 Melvil Dewey born Melville Dewey librarian died 1931 December 30 Asa Griggs Candler businessman and politician died 1929 Albery Allson Whitman African American poet died 1901 Deaths editJanuary 17 Thomas Lincoln farmer and father of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln born 1778 January 27 John James Audubon naturalist and illustrator born 1785 in Saint Domingue January 31 David Spangler Kaufman Congressman from Texas born 1813 February 3 Benjamin Williams Crowninshield Congressman from Massachusetts secretary of U S Navy born 1772 March 11 George McDuffie 55th Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1846 born 1790 May 3 Thomas Hickman Williams U S Senator from Mississippi from 1838 to 1839 born 1801 May 22 Mordecai Manuel Noah Jewish playwright diplomat journalist and utopian born 1785 June 21 Martin Chester Deming American businessman and politician b 1789 3 July 6 Thomas Davenport electrical engineer born 1802 August 24 James McDowell politician born 1795 September 10 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet minister educator co founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America born 1787 September 11 Sylvester Graham nutritionist and inventor born 1794 September 14 James Fenimore Cooper historical novelist born 1789 September 24 Lucius Lyon U S Senator from Michigan from 1843 to 1845 born 1800 November Willis Buell politician and portrait painter born 1790 See also editTimeline of United States history 1820 1859 References edit Miller Dean January 1 2014 Immunologists and Virologists Cavendish Square Publishing LLC p 86 ISBN 978 1 62712 562 8 Tiehm Arnold 1985 Fanny Searls 1851 1939 Brittonia 37 1 41 doi 10 1007 BF02809668 S2CID 87755152 Wiley Edgar J 1917 Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont 1800 1915 Middlebury Middlebury College pp 22 23 External links edit nbsp Media related to 1851 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1851 in the United States amp oldid 1186866740, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
