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List of events
Events from the year 1853 in the United States .
Incumbents
Millard Fillmore (
W -
New York ) (until March 4)
Franklin Pierce (
D -
New Hampshire ) (starting March 4)
vacant (until March 4)
William R. King (
D -
Alabama ) (March 4 – April 18)
vacant (starting April 18)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Henry W. Collier (
Democratic ) (until December 20),
John A. Winston (
Democratic ) (starting December 20)
Governor of Arkansas :
Elias Nelson Conway (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
John Bigler (
Democratic )
Governor of Connecticut :
Thomas H. Seymour (
Democratic ) (until October 13),
Charles H. Pond (
Democratic ) (starting October 13)
Governor of Delaware :
William H. H. Ross (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Thomas Brown (
Whig ) (until October 3),
James E. Broome (
Democratic ) (starting October 3)
Governor of Georgia :
Howell Cobb (
Democratic ) (until November 9),
Herschel V. Johnson (
Democratic ) (starting November 9)
Governor of Illinois :
Augustus C. French (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Joel Aldrich Matteson (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Indiana :
Joseph A. Wright (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Stephen P. Hempstead (
Democratic )
Governor of Kentucky :
Lazarus W. Powell (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Joseph Marshall Walker (
Democratic ) (until January 18),
Paul Octave Hébert (
Democratic ) (starting January 18)
Governor of Maine :
John Hubbard (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
William G. Crosby (
Whig ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Maryland :
Enoch Louis Lowe (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
George S. Boutwell (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
John H. Clifford (
Whig ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Michigan :
Governor of Mississippi :
Henry S. Foote (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Austin Augustus King (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Sterling Price (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Hampshire :
Noah Martin (
Democratic )
Governor of New Jersey :
George F. Fort (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Horatio Seymour (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
David Settle Reid (
Democratic )
Governor of Ohio :
Reuben Wood (
Democratic ) (until July 13),
William Medill (
Democratic ) (starting July 13)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William Bigler (
Democratic )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Philip Allen (
Democratic ) (until July 20),
Francis M. Dimond (
Democratic ) (starting July 20)
Governor of South Carolina :
John Lawrence Manning (
Democratic )
Governor of Tennessee :
William B. Campbell (
Whig ) (until October 17),
Andrew Johnson (
Democratic ) (starting October 17)
Governor of Texas :
Governor of Vermont :
Erastus Fairbanks (
Whig ) (until October),
John S. Robinson (
Democratic ) (starting October)
Governor of Virginia :
Joseph Johnson (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Leonard J. Farwell (
Whig )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Samuel Purdy (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Charles H. Pond (
Democratic ) (until October 13), vacant (starting October 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
William McMurtry (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Gustavus Koerner (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
James H. Lane (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Ashbel P. Willard (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
John Burton Thompson (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Jean Baptiste Plauche (
Whig ) (until month and day unknown),
William Wood Farmer (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Henry W. Cushman (
Democratic ) (until January 14),
Elisha Huntington (
Whig ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Thomas Lawson Price (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Wilson Brown (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Sanford E. Church (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
William Medill (
Democratic ) (until July 13), vacant (starting July 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
Samuel G. Arnold (political party unknown) (until July 20),
Francis M. Dimond (
Democratic ) (starting July 20)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : James Irby (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
William Kittredge (
Whig ) (until October),
Jefferson P. Kidder (
Democratic ) (starting October)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
Shelton Leake (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Timothy Burns (
Democratic ) (until September 21), vacant (starting September 21)
Events
January–March
March 4:
Franklin Pierce becomes the 14th U.S. president
The president's wife,
Jane , with their son Bennie, ca. 1850
William R. King becomes the 13th U.S. vice president
January –
Stephen Foster 's "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night", which is later adopted as the state song of Kentucky under the name "
My Old Kentucky Home ", is published by
Firth, Pond, & Company .
January 6
February 22 –
Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary.
March –
Levi Strauss & Co. is founded in
San Francisco, California .
[1]
March 2 –
Washington Territory is created from
Oregon Territory .
March 4 –
Franklin Pierce becomes the 14th
president of the United States ,
affirming the
oath of office , and
William R. King becomes the 13th
vice president .
March 5 –
Steinway & Sons , a
piano maker, is founded in
Manhattan by the German immigrant
Henry E. Steinway (Heinrich E. Steinweg) and his family.
[2]
April–June
April 4 – Regular operation of the
St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad begins between
Montreal and
Portland, Maine .
April 18 – Vice President
William R. King dies of tuberculosis in
Selma, Alabama , without having carried out any duties of the office.
May – The
1853 yellow fever epidemic begins along the
Gulf Coast , ultimately killing more than 10,000 people.
[3]
May 6 –
Norwalk rail accident : A train runs off an open
swing bridge into a river in
Norwalk, Connecticut , killing 56.
[4]
May 11 –
Shimer College is founded in
Mount Carroll, Illinois , with 11 students.
[5]
May 23 – The first
plat for
Seattle, Washington , is laid out.
July–September
October–December
December 30:
Gadsden Purchase (in yellow)
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
Harry A. Richardson , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1907 to 1913 (died
1928 )
January 2 –
Packy Dillon , baseball player (died
1902 )
January 6 –
Woodbridge N. Ferris , 28th Governor of Michigan from 1913 to 1917 and U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1923 to 1928 (died 1928)
January 17 –
Alva Belmont , multi-millionaire socialite and suffrage activist (died
1933 )
January 19 –
Stephen M. White , U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1899 (died
1901 )
February 3 –
Hudson Maxim , inventor, chemist (died
1927 )
February 16 –
Charles J. Hughes, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1909 to 1911 (died
1911 )
February 18 –
Ernest Fenollosa , Orientalist (died
1908 in the United Kingdom )
March 4 –
Alexander S. Clay , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1897 to 1910 (died
1910 )
March 5 –
Howard Pyle , artist and fiction writer (died 1911)
April 8 –
Laura Alberta Linton , chemist (died
1915 )
April 23 –
Thomas Nelson Page , writer and lawyer (died
1922 )
May 3 –
E. W. Howe , author and editor (died
1937 )
May 8 –
Katharine Lente Stevenson , reformer, missionary and editor (died
1919 )
June 12 –
Chester Adgate Congdon , Minnesota mining magnate (died
1916 )
July 24 –
William Gillette , actor, playwright and stage-manager (died
1937 )
July 27 –
Elizabeth Plankinton , Milwaukee philanthropist (died
1923 in Switzerland)
September 17 –
Henry Churchill de Mille , dramatist and playwright (died
1893 )
October 14 –
John William Kendrick , railroad executive (died
1924 )
November 9 –
Stanford White , architect (murdered
1906 )
November 13 –
John Drew, Jr. , actor (died 1927)
November 26 –
Bat Masterson , lawman (died
1921 )
December 23 –
William Henry Moody , 35th
United States Secretary of the Navy , 45th
United States Attorney General , and
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died
1917 )
December 31 –
Tasker H. Bliss , general (died
1930 )
Deaths
January 16 –
Robert Lucas , governor of Ohio (born
1781 )
January 26 –
Sylvester Judd , novelist (born
1813 )
March 30 –
Abigail Fillmore ,
First Lady of the United States and
Second Lady of the United States as wife of
Millard Fillmore (born
1798 )
April 13 –
James Iredell Jr. , 23rd
governor of North Carolina from 1827 to 1828 (born
1788 )
April 18 –
William R. King , 13th
vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (born
1786 )
May 2 –
Jesse B. Thomas , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1818 to 1829 (born
1777 )
July 24 –
Hezekiah C. Seymour , civil engineer (born
1811 )
August 23 –
Alexander Calder , first mayor of
Beaumont, Texas (born
1806 )
September 5 –
George Poindexter , 2nd governor of Mississippi from 1820 to 1822 and U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1830 to 1835 (born
1779 )
October 5 –
Mahlon Dickerson , judge and politician (born
1770 )
October 27 –
Maria White Lowell , poet (born
1821 )
November 15 –
Charles G. Atherton , U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1843 to 1849 and in 1853 (born
1804 )
December 28 –
Sarah Goodridge , miniature painter (born
1788 )
See also
References
^ Downey, Lynn (2008).
"Levi Strauss: A Short Biography" (PDF) . Levi Strauss & Co. Archived from
the original (PDF) on July 23, 2011.
^ Kehl, Roy F.; Kirkland, David R. (2011).
The Official Guide to Steinway Pianos . G. Schirmer Inc. p. xvii.
ISBN
978-1-57467-198-8 .
^
"Death, Data, and Denial in Antebellum New Orleans" . harvardlibrarybulletin.org . Retrieved August 31, 2023 .
^ Haine, Edgar A. (1993).
Railroad Wrecks . pp. 33–34.
ISBN
978-0-8453-4844-4 .
^ Henderson, Harold (June 16, 1988).
"Big Ideas: Tiny Shimer College has survived for 135 years on great books, high hopes, and very little money" . Chicago Reader .
^
"Wheaton Academy: Our History" . Wheaton Academy. Archived from
the original on May 22, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2012 .
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