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List of events
Events from the year 1842 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Archibald Yell (
Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut :
William W. Ellsworth (
Whig ) (until May 4),
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (
Democratic ) (starting May 4)
Governor of Delaware :
William B. Cooper (
Whig )
Governor of Georgia :
Charles J. McDonald (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Thomas Carlin (
Democratic ) (until December 8),
Thomas Ford (
Democratic ) (starting December 8)
Governor of Indiana :
Samuel Bigger (
Whig )
Governor of Kentucky :
Robert P. Letcher (
Whig )
Governor of Louisiana :
André B. Roman (
Whig )
Governor of Maine :
Edward Kent (
Whig ) (until January 5),
John Fairfield (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Maryland :
William Grason (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Francis Thomas (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Massachusetts :
John Davis (
Whig )
Governor of Michigan :
James Wright Gordon (
Whig ) (until January 3),
John S. Barry (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Mississippi :
Alexander G. McNutt (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Tilghman Tucker (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Reynolds (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
John Page (
Democratic ) (until June 2),
Henry Hubbard (
Democratic ) (starting June 2)
Governor of New Jersey :
William Pennington (
Whig )
Governor of New York :
William H. Seward (
Whig ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
John Motley Morehead (
Whig )
Governor of Ohio :
Thomas Corwin (
Whig ) (until December 14),
Wilson Shannon (
Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
David R. Porter (
Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Samuel Ward King (
Rhode Island )
Governor of South Carolina :
John Peter Richardson II (
Democratic ) (until December 8),
James Henry Hammond (
Democratic ) (starting December 8)
Governor of Tennessee :
James C. Jones (
Whig )
Governor of Vermont :
Charles Paine (
Whig )
Governor of Virginia :
John Rutherfoord (
Whig ) (until March 31),
John Munford Gregory (
Whig ) (starting March 31)
Lieutenant governors
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
Ongoing
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 )
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
References
^ Smith, Carol Wojtowicz (1996). Benefits of Inestimable Value: History of the Mercantile Beneficial Association . Mercantile Beneficial Association. pp. 8–10.
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