HISTORY - TIMELINE
1609-1779 ~ 1781-1807 ~ 1808-1827 ~ 1828- 1840 ~ 1841-1850 ~ 1851-1865 ~ 1865-1866
BACK TO SOMERS MUSEUM
Gerard Crane retires from circus.
Elephant Columbus dies by falling through a bridge on the Hoosick River at North Adams, MA.
[New York Daily Times founded, to become New York Times in 1857; Herman Melville publishes "Moby Dick']
Franklin Pierce - President of United States
Hachaliah Brown, Captain, U.S. Army, Mexican War, dies. Monument erected to his memory in Ivandell cemetery.
[Commodore Matthew Perry visits Japan, opens trade; Gadsden Purchase (1) (2) (3) acquires Mexican border land for $10 million; Erastus Corning (1) creates New York Central Railroad]
Approval granted for a road between Croton Falls and Lovell St.; never built.
[Kansas-Nebraska Act (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) repeals Missouri Compromise (1) (2): Republican Party formed (1) (2) ; First black university (Ashman Inst., now Lincoln Univ.) chartered; John A. Roebling builds railroad suspension bridge over Niagara Gorge, later builds Brooklyn Bridge]
Contested construction of a conection between northern and southern sections of Pines Bridge Road approved; no longer passable.
[Walt Whitman publishes "Leaves of Grass;" Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" and Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" published]
James Buchanan - President of United States
At the Annual Meeting of the Electors of Somers it was resolved that there shall be no bounty on foxes and that "hogs and geese shall not be commoners in the streets."
[Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision (1) (2) (3) (4) holds that a negro slave does not become free when taken into a free state and has no rights as a citizen. Missouri Compromise declared unconstitutional (1) (2); Minnesota outlaws slavery; Central Park (1) (2) laid out on New York City's Manhattan Island]
[John Brown and followers seize Harpers Ferry, WV arsenal]
Abraham Lincoln - President of United States
Miller Brothers' cloth mill purchased by George Juengst.
Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society of Somers organized.
Lincoln carries Somers by a plurality of 21 votes.
[South Carolina secedes (1) (2) from the union; Pony Express 10-day mail from Missouri to California begins; Tripoli Monument moved to Naval Academy at Annapolis]
Charles Wright,Jr. joins Confederate Army.
[Confederate States of America (1) (1a) (2) (3) (4) formed Feb. 8th; Firing on Fort Sumter (1) (2) (3) (4) starts Civil War April 12]
American Civil War (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
James Wright joins Confederate Army.
Stephen Bowles is Somers' first casualty in Civil War.
Charles Wright, Jr. dies in Confederate Army service.
["Battle Hymn of Republic" written; Confederacy establishes conscription; Battle of Antietam, MD bloodiest day (1) in American history, Union - 2108 killed, 9549 wounded; Confederacy - 2700 killed, 9029 wounded]
St. Luke's rector refuses to pray for the Union soldiers.
New York Catholic Protectory, predecessor organization to Lincoln Hall, organized in New York City.
More cemetary land added to Tomahawk Chapel.
Five Somers soldiers die of disease.
[Emancipation Proclamation January 1 (1) (2) (3) (4) - declares freedom for all slaves in Confederate-held territory; First national conscription act; South defeated at Gettysbury; Lincoln delivers Gettysbury Address (1) (2)]
Major Edward Jones dies of wounds received at Cedar Creek, VA. (1) (2) (3)
William E. Kniffin killed at Ream's Station,VA. (1) (2)
James Moriarity killed at Petersburg, VA. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
William Donnell mortally wounded; Freeman Light and Chauncey Totten die in prison; James Wright dies in Alabama.
George Juengst and others purchase Bedell's Mills and adjoining Carpenter's
paper mill.
St. Luke's rector resigns.
[Grant (1) commands all Northern forces; General Sherman (1) marches through Georgia (1) (2); "In God We Trust" appears on U.S. coins for first time]
Andrew Jackson - President of United States
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