1842 in the United States

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Events from the year 1842 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

  • President: John Tyler (I-Virginia)
  • Vice President: vacant
  • Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: John White (W-Kentucky)
  • Congress: 27th

Events

  • February 1 – Willamette University is established in Salem, Oregon.
  • March – Commonwealth v. Hunt: the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.
  • March 5 – Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio, and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution.
  • March 9 – First documented discovery of gold in California, by Francisco Lopez at Placerita Canyon in Rancho San Francisco, sparking a small-scale gold rush, mainly of Mexicans from Sonora.
  • May 19 – Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island but are repulsed.
  • August 1 – A parade in Philadelphia celebrating the end of slavery in the Caribbean is attacked by a mob, leading to the 3-day Lombard Street riot.
  • August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.
  • August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
  • September – Ohio Wesleyan University is established in Delaware, Ohio.
  • November 26 – The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana is established by Father Edward Sorin of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
  • December 20 – The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is established.

Undated

  • The Sons of Temperance is founded in New York City.
  • Founding of:
    • Cumberland University (in Lebanon, Tennessee)
    • Hollins University (in Roanoke, Virginia by Charles Cocke)
    • Villanova University (in Villanova, Pennsylvania by the Augustinian order)
    • Indiana University Bloomington
    • Indiana University Maurer School of Law
    • The Merchants Fund organization in Philadelphia[1]
  • The Scroll and Key secret society of Yale University is established.

Ongoing

  • Second Seminole War (1835–1842)

Births

  • January 11 – William James, psychologist and philosopher (died 1910)
  • January 21 – Henry Livermore Abbott, Union Army major and brevet brigadier general (died 1864)
  • February 3 – Sidney Lanier, musician, poet and writer (died 1881)
  • February 28 – Stephen Wallace Dorsey, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1873 to 1879 (died 1916)
  • March 30 – John Fiske, philosopher (died 1901)
  • June 16 – David Herold, accomplice of John Wilkes Booth (died 1865)
  • June 24 – Ambrose Bierce, writer and satirist (died c. 1914 in Mexican Revolution)
  • July 9 – Mary E. Smith Hayward, businesswoman and suffragist (died 1938)
  • July 15 – James Hard, last verified living Union combat veteran of the American Civil War (died 1953)
  • July 30 – Thomas J. O'Brien, politician and diplomat (died 1933)
  • August 31 – Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, African American civil rights campaigner and publisher (died 1924)
  • September 13 – John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1920 (died 1920)
  • October 3 – Frederick Rodgers, admiral (died 1917)
  • October 14 – Joe Start, baseball first baseman (died 1927)
  • October 28 – Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (died 1932)
  • December 15 – George Keller, architect (died 1935)
  • Unknown – George Truesdell, businessman (died 1921)

Deaths

  • January 4 – John W. Beschter, Jesuit priest and academic (born 1763 in Luxembourg)
  • March 4 – James Forten, African American abolitionist and businessman (born 1766)
  • March 13 – Samuel Eells, founder of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity (born 1810)
  • July 23 – Timothy Swan, psalmist and hatter (born 1758)
  • September 10 – Letitia Tyler, First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1842 as wife of the 10th U.S. president, John Tyler (born 1790)
  • October 2 – William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian and minister (born 1780)
  • November 3 – Robert Smith, 6th United States Secretary of State (born 1757)
  • December 1 – Philip Spencer, founder of Chi Psi fraternity and midshipman aboard USS Somers (born 1823)
  • December 31 – George Cassedy, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (born 1783)

See also

  • Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

References

  1. ^ Smith, Carol Wojtowicz (1996). Benefits of Inestimable Value: History of the Mercantile Beneficial Association. Mercantile Beneficial Association. pp. 8–10.
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