1842 in the United States 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
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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