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List of events
Events from the year 1872 in the United States .
Incumbents
President
Ulysses S. Grant by
Mathew Brady c. 1870
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Robert B. Lindsay (
Democratic ) (until November 17),
David P. Lewis (
Republican ) (starting November 17)
Governor of Arkansas :
Ozra Amander Hadley (
Republican )
Governor of California :
Newton Booth (
Republican )
Governor of Connecticut :
Marshall Jewell (
Republican )
Governor of Delaware :
James Ponder (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Harrison Reed (
Republican )
Governor of Georgia :
Benjamin Conley (
Republican ) (until January 12),
James M. Smith (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Illinois :
John M. Palmer (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Conrad Baker (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
Samuel Merrill (
Republican ) (until January 11),
Cyrus C. Carpenter (
Republican ) (starting January 11)
Governor of Kansas :
James M. Harvey (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Preston H. Leslie (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Henry C. Warmoth (
Republican ) (until December 29),
P. B. S. Pinchback (
Republican ) (starting December 29)
Governor of Maine :
Sidney Perham (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Oden Bowie (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
William Pinkney Whyte (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Massachusetts :
William Claflin (
Republican ) (until January 4),
William B. Washburn (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Michigan :
Henry P. Baldwin (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Horace Austin (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Ridgley C. Powers (
Republican )
Governor of Missouri :
B. Gratz Brown (
Liberal Republican )
Governor of Nebraska :
William H. James (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Lewis R. Bradley (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
James A. Weston (
Democratic ) (until June 6),
Ezekiel A. Straw (
Republican ) (starting June 6)
Governor of New Jersey :
Theodore Fitz Randolph (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
Joel Parker (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of New York :
John Thompson Hoffman (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Tod Robinson Caldwell (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
Rutherford B. Hayes (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Edward F. Noyes (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Oregon :
La Fayette Grover (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John W. Geary (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Seth Padelford (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
Robert Kingston Scott (
Republican ) (until December 7),
Franklin I. Moses, Jr. (
Republican ) (starting December 7)
Governor of Tennessee :
John C. Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Edmund J. Davis (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
John W. Stewart (
Republican ) (until October 3),
Julius Converse (
Republican ) (starting October 3)
Governor of Virginia :
Gilbert Carlton Walker (
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
John J. Jacob (
Democratic )/(
Independent )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Lucius Fairchild (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Cadwallader C. Washburn (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Edward H. Moren (
Democratic ) (until November 17),
Alexander McKinstry (
Republican ) (starting November 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of California :
William Holden (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Romualdo Pacheco (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Julius Hotchkiss (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
Morris Tyler (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida : vacant (until month and day unknown),
Samuel T. Day (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
John Dougherty (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
William Cumback (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Madison Miner Walden (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Henry C. Bulis (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Peter Percival Elder (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
John G. Carlisle (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Oscar J. Dunn (
Republican ) (until November 22),
P. B. S. Pinchback (
Republican ) (starting November 22)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Joseph Tucker (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Morgan Bates (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
William H. Yale (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Alexander K. Davis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Joseph J. Gravely (
Liberal Republican ) (until April 28), vacant (starting April 28)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : James S. Slingerland (political party unknown) (until January 2), Frank Denver (political party unknown) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Allen C. Beach (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
John C. Lee (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Jacob Mueller (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Pardon Stevens (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Charles Cutler (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Alonzo J. Ransier (
Republican ) (until December 7),
Richard Howell Gleaves (
Republican ) (starting December 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
John C. Vaughn (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
George N. Dale (
Republican ) (until October 3),
Russell S. Taft (
Republican ) (starting October 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
John Lawrence Marye, Jr. (Conservative)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Thaddeus C. Pound (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Milton H. Pettit (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Events
Brigham Young , photo circa 1870
Clarence King (1842-1901) as a young man
January 2 –
Brigham Young is arrested for allegedly being an accessory to murder.
January 3 – First
patent list issued by the
U.S. Patent Office .
February 13 –
Rex , the most famous parade on
Mardi Gras , parades for the first time in
New Orleans for
Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia .
February 20 – The
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in
New York City .
March – One of the first
Personal Liberty League formed in the United States in response to the threat posed to the liquor industry by the growing political strength of the
temperance movement .
March 1 –
Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first
national park .
March 5 –
George Westinghouse patents the
air brake for railroads.
March 26 – The 7.4–7.9
Lone Pine earthquake shakes
eastern California with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ). Twenty-seven people are killed and fifty-six injured.
May 10 –
Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for
President of the United States .
May 22 –
Reconstruction : President
Ulysses S. Grant signs the
Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full
civil rights to all but about 500
Confederate sympathizers.
June 4 – Two men lead investors to land near the
Wyoming -
Colorado border claiming to have found
diamonds there, starting a diamond craze in the western U.S. (which is later
revealed as a fraud ).
[1]
August –
Aaron Montgomery Ward issues the first
Montgomery Ward mail order catalogue from Chicago.
September 4 – The
New York Sun breaks the story on the
Crédit Mobilier of America scandal
September 26 – The first
Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in
New York City .
October 1 – The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College begins its first academic session (the university is later renamed
Virginia Tech ).
October 2 –
Morgan State University founded.
November –
Ulysses S. Grant defeats
Horace Greeley in the
U.S. presidential election
November 2 –
Spiritualist , suffragette, and
Free Love advocate
Victoria Woodhull publishes shocking allegations in
Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly claiming in "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case" article that
Henry Ward Beecher had committed adultery with
Theodore Tilton 's wife. The subsequent trials and hearings, "drove Reconstruction off the front pages for two and a half years" and became "the most sensational 'he said, she said' in American history", in the words of
Walter A. McDougall .
[2]
November 5 –
Women's suffrage : In defiance of the law, suffragist
Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time (on November 18 she is served an arrest warrant and in the subsequent trial is fined $100 - which she never pays).
November 7 – The
Mary Celeste sets sail from New York, bound for Genoa.
November 9 –
Great Boston Fire of 1872 : In
Boston, Massachusetts , a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street. The two-day event destroys about 65 acres (260,000 m2 ) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US$60 million in damage.
November 28 – Geologist
Clarence King uncovers the
diamond hoax in
Wyoming in
The New York Times .
[3]
November 29 –
Indian Wars : The
Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
December 4 – The crewless American-owned ship
Mary Celeste is found by the
British brig Dei Gratia in the Atlantic.
December 9 –
P. B. S. Pinchback takes office as
Governor of Louisiana , the first
African American governor of a U.S. state.
William Lawrence, a dairyman of
Chester (village), New York , creates the first American
cream cheese .
[4]
First known publication of
spiritual "
The Gospel Train ", by
Fisk Jubilee Singers .
Ongoing
William Bell, Perched Rock, western
Arizona Territory , 1872 photo for
Wheeler Survey
Births
January 4 –
Albert Tyler , pole vaulter and educator (died
1945 )
January 20 –
Julia Morgan , California architect (died
1957 )
January 31 –
Zane Grey , Western novelist (died
1939 )
February 1 –
Jerome F. Donovan , politician (died
1949 )
February 9 –
Charles Klauder , university architect (died
1938 )
March 3 –
Willie Keeler , baseball player (died
1923 )
March 6 –
Ben Harney , ragtime pianist and songwriter (died 1938)
March 14 –
William Emerson Brock , U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1929 to 1931 (died
1950 )
March 15 –
Harry Holman , character film actor (died
1947 )
April 5 –
Samuel Cate Prescott , food scientist and microbiologist (died
1962 )
April 23 –
Nathan Philemon Bryan , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1911 to 1917 (died
1935 )
April 29 –
Harry Payne Whitney , businessman and horse breeder (died
1930 )
May 16 –
John O'Connell , baseball player (died
1908 )
May 21 –
Henry E. Warren , inventor (died 1957)
May 26 –
Zachary Taylor Davis , Chicago architect (died
1946 )
May 31 –
Charles Greeley Abbot , astrophysicist (died
1973 )
June 13 –
Thomas N. Heffron , film director (died
1951 )
June 27 –
Paul Laurence Dunbar , African American poet, novelist, playwright and publisher (died
1906 )
July 4 –
Calvin Coolidge , 30th
president of the United States from 1923 to 1929, 29th
vice president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 (died
1933 )
July 8 –
John H. Bankhead II , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1931 to 1946 (died
1946 )
August 2 –
George E. Stewart , U.S. Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (died
1946 )
August 4 –
Ruth Ward Kahn , lecturer and writer (unknown year of death)
August 10 –
William Manuel Johnson , African American dixieland jazz double-bassist (died
1972 )
August 15 –
Rubin Goldmark , composer (died
1936 )
August 26:
August 31 –
Edith Rockefeller McCormick , socialite, daughter of
Standard Oil co-founder
John D. Rockefeller (d.
1932 )
September 8 –
James William McCarthy , judge (died 1939)
September 20 –
Walter E. Scott , "Death Valley Scotty", confidence trickster (died
1954 )
September 28 –
Charles F. Watkins , physician (died 1936)
October 10 –
Arthur Talmage Abernethy , journalist, scholar, theologian and poet, 1st
North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1948 to 1953 (died
1956 )
October 11 –
Harlan F. Stone , 12th
Chief Justice of the United States from 1941 (died
1946 )
October 15 –
Edith Wilson , wife of
Woodrow Wilson ,
First Lady of the United States , (died
1961 )
November 2 –
John N. Heiskell , U.S. Senator from Arkansas in 1913 (died
1972 )
November 7 –
Leonora Speyer , née von Stosch, classical violinist and poet (died
1956 )
November 11 –
Maude Adams , stage actress (died
1953 )
December 9 –
Thomas W. Hardwick , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1914 to 1919 (died
1944 )
December 17 –
Walter Loving , African American military bandleader (killed 1945 in the Philippines)
Deaths
January 4 –
Arnold Naudain , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1830 to 1836 (born
1790 )
January 7 –
James Fisk , financier (born
1835 )
January 9 –
Henry Halleck , general (born
1815 )
January 21 –
Thomas Bragg , U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1859 to 1861, 2nd
Confederate States Attorney General (born
1810 )
January 25 –
Richard S. Ewell ,
Confederate general (born
1817 )
February 7 –
James W. Grimes , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1859 to 1869 (born
1816 )
March or April –
Mercator Cooper , sea captain (born
1803 )
March 31 –
Samuel Henry Dickson , poet, physician, writer and educator (born
1798 )
April 2 –
Samuel Morse , inventor of the
Morse code (born
1791 )
April 9 –
Erastus Corning , businessman and politician (born
1794 )
April 10 –
John Mix Stanley , painter (born
1814 )
May 17 –
Eduard Sobolewski , violinist, composer and conductor (born 1804 or 1808 in Poland)
August –
Asa Whitney , merchant and promoter of the first transcontinental railroad (born 1791)
August 11 –
Lowell Mason , organist and composer (born
1792 )
September 18 –
Augustus Seymour Porter , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1840 to 1845 (born
1798 )
September 22 –
Garrett Davis , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born
1801 )
October 10 –
William H. Seward ,
United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 (born
1801 )
November 5 –
Thomas Sully , portrait painter (born
1783 in Great Britain )
November 6 –
George Meade , Civil War general (born 1815)
November 16 –
William Gilham , military writer (born
1818 )
November 29 –
Horace Greeley , newspaper editor and presidential candidate (born
1811 )
December 23 –
George Catlin , painter specializing in portraits of Native Americans (born
1796 )
Henry Howard Brownell , poet and historian (born
1820 )
See also
References
Further reading
External links