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List of events
Events from the year 1873 in the United States .
Hudson River yacht club is established
Incumbents
Schuyler Colfax (
R -
Indiana ) (until March 4)
Henry Wilson (
R -
Massachusetts ) (starting March 4)
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
David P. Lewis (
Republican )
Governor of Arkansas :
Ozra Amander Hadley (
Republican ) (until January 6),
Elisha Baxter (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of California :
Newton Booth (
Republican )
Governor of Connecticut :
Marshall Jewell (
Republican ) (until May 7),
Charles R. Ingersoll (
Democratic ) (starting May 7)
Governor of Delaware :
James Ponder (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Harrison Reed (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Ossian B. Hart (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Georgia :
James M. Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Governor of Indiana :
Conrad Baker (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Thomas A. Hendricks (
Democratic ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Iowa :
Cyrus C. Carpenter (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
James M. Harvey (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Thomas A. Osborn (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Kentucky :
Preston H. Leslie (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
Governor of Maine :
Sidney Perham (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
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 ) (until January 1),
John J. Bagley (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
Horace Austin (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
Ridgley C. Powers (
Republican )
Governor of Missouri :
B. Gratz Brown (
Liberal Republican ) (until January 3),
Silas Woodson (
Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Nebraska :
William H. James (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Robert Wilkinson Furnas (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Nevada :
Lewis R. Bradley (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Ezekiel A. Straw (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
Joel Parker (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
John Adams Dix (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Tod Robinson Caldwell (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
Edward F. Noyes (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
La Fayette Grover (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John W. Geary (
Republican ) (until January 21),
John F. Hartranft (
Republican ) (starting January 21)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Seth Padelford (
Republican ) (until May 27),
Henry Howard (
Republican ) (starting May 27)
Governor of South Carolina :
Franklin I. Moses, Jr. (
Republican )
Governor of Tennessee :
John C. Brown (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Edmund J. Davis (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Julius Converse (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Gilbert Carlton Walker (
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
John J. Jacob (
Democratic )/(
Independent )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Cadwallader C. Washburn (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama :
Alexander McKinstry (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : vacant (until January 6),
Volney V. Smith (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Romualdo Pacheco (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Morris Tyler (
Republican ) (until May 7),
George G. Sill (
Republican ) (starting May 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida :
Samuel T. Day (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Marcellus Stearns (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
William Cumback (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Leonidas Sexton (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Henry C. Bulis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Peter Percival Elder (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Elias Sleeper Stover (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
John G. Carlisle (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Joseph Tucker (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown),
Thomas Talbot (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Morgan Bates (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Henry H. Holt (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
William H. Yale (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
Alexander K. Davis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : vacant (until January 3),
Charles Phillip Johnson (
Liberal Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Frank Denver (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
John C. Robinson (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : vacant (until month and day unknown),
Curtis Hooks Brogden (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Jacob Mueller (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Charles Cutler (political party unknown) (until May 27),
Charles C. Van Zandt (political party unknown) (starting May 27)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Richard Howell Gleaves (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
John C. Vaughn (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), A. T. Lacey (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Russell S. Taft (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
John Lawrence Marye, Jr. (Conservative)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Milton H. Pettit (
Republican ) (until March 23), vacant (starting March 23)
Events
January–March
March 4:
Henry Wilson becomes the 18th U.S. vice president
April–June
July–September
July 21 – At
Adair, Iowa ,
Jesse James and the
James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful
train robbery in the American West (US$3,000 from the Rock Island Express).
August 4 –
Indian Wars : While protecting a
railroad survey party in
Montana , the
Seventh Cavalry , under Lieutenant Colonel
George Armstrong Custer , clashes for the first time with the
Sioux , near the
Tongue River (only 1 man on each side is killed).
September 6 – Regular cable car service begins on
Clay Street ,
San Francisco .
September 17 – The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, later
Ohio State University , opens its doors with 25 students, including 2 women.
September 18 – The
New York stock market crash triggers the
Panic of 1873 , part of the
Long Depression .
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 2 –
John M. Robsion , U.S. Senator from Kentucky in 1930 (died
1948 )
January 4 –
Blanche Walsh , stage and screen actress (died
1915 )
January 8 –
Grace Van Studdiford , stage actress and opera singer (died
1927 )
January 9 –
Thomas Curtis , hurdler (died
1944 )
February 4 –
Joel R. P. Pringle , admiral (died
1932 )
February 11 –
Louis Charles Christopher Krieger ,
mycologist (died
1940 )
March 3 –
William Green , labor leader (died
1952 )
March 5 –
Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. , zoologist and cell biologist (died
1912 )
March 29 –
Billy Quirk , silent film actor (died
1926 )
April 7 –
John McGraw , baseball player and manager (died
1934 )
April 13 –
John W. Davis , politician, diplomat and lawyer (died
1955 )
May 5 –
Leon Czolgosz , assassin of President
William McKinley (executed
1901 )
May 9
April 22 –
Ellen Glasgow , novelist (died
1945 )
July 6 –
Ethel Sands , painter (died
1962 in the United Kingdom )
July 11 –
Nat M. Wills , vaudeville entertainer (died
1917 )
August 3 –
Alexander Posey , Native American poet, journalist, humorist and politician (drowned
1908 )
August 5 –
Joseph Russell Knowland , politician and newspaperman (died
1966 )
August 10 –
William Ernest Hocking , philosopher (died 1966)
August 11 –
J. Rosamond Johnson , African American composer and singer (died
1954 )
August 17 –
John A. Sampson , gynecologist (died
1946 )
August 18 –
Otto Harbach , lyricist (died
1963 )
August 21 –
Harry T. Morey , stage and screen actor (died
1936 )
August 25 –
Blanche Bates , stage and screen actress (died
1941 )
August 26 –
Lee de Forest , inventor (died
1961 )
September 2 –
Bessie Van Vorst , campaigning journalist (died
1928 )
September 5 –
Cornelius Vanderbilt III , military officer, inventor and engineer (died
1942 )
September 8 –
David O. McKay , president of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died
1970 )
September 14 –
Josiah Bailey , U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1931 to 1946 (died 1946)
September 21 –
Papa Jack Laine , New Orleans brass band leader (died
1966 )
October 2 –
Stephen Warfield Gambrill , U.S. Congressman for Maryland's
5th District (died
1924 )
October 3 –
Emily Post , etiquette expert (died
1960 )
October 8 –
Ma Barker , née Kate Clark, matriarch of the
Barker–Karpis gang (killed
1935 )
October 9 –
Charles Rudolph Walgreen , businessman (died
1939 )
October 10 –
George Cabot Lodge , poet (died
1909 )
October 14 –
Ray Ewry , field athlete (died
1937 )
October 17 –
William Luther Hill , U.S. Senator from Florida in 1936 (died
1951 )
October 18 –
Harris Laning , admiral (died 1941)
October 19 –
Bart King ,
cricketer (died
1965 )
October 29 –
Lester J. Dickinson , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1931 to 1937 (died
1968 )
November 10 –
David Lynn , architect,
Architect of the Capitol from 1923 to 1954 (died
1961 )
November 16 –
W. C. Handy , African American composer, "father of the Blues" (died 1958)
November 28 –
Frank Phillips , oil executive (died
1950 )
December 7 –
Willa Cather , novelist (died
1947 )
December 12 –
Lola Ridge , poet (died 1941)
December 30 –
Al Smith , politician (died 1944)
Undated –
Thomas Chrostwaite , educator (died 1958)
Deaths
February 1 –
Matthew Fontaine Maury , oceanographer (born
1806 )
March 4 –
Alfred Iverson, Sr. , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1855 to 1861 (born
1798 )
March 10 –
John Torrey , botanist (born
1796 )
March 27 –
James Dixon , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1857 to 1869 (born
1814 )
March 31 –
Hugh Maxwell , lawyer and politician (born
1787 )
April 11 –
Edward Canby , general (born
1817 )
May 7 –
Salmon P. Chase , 6th
Chief Justice of the United States , 25th
United States Secretary of the Treasury (born
1808 )
May 9 –
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman , poet (born
1821 )
June 11 –
Richard Saltonstall Rogers , shipping merchant and politician (born
1790 )
October 5 –
William Todd , businessman and Canadian senate nominee (born
1803 )
November 9 –
Stephen Mallory , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1851 to 1861 (born
1812 )
November 27 –
Richard Yates , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1865 to 1871 (born
1815 )
December 14 –
Louis Agassiz , geologist and zoologist (born
1807 in Switzerland)
December 24 –
Johns Hopkins , entrepreneur and benefactor (born
1795 )
See also
References
^ "Lumber Industry." Encyclopedia of American History . Answers Corporation, 2006.
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