1834 in the United States explained

Events from the year 1834 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Andrew Jackson (D-Tennessee)
• Vice President: Martin Van Buren (D-New York)
• Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Andrew Stevenson (D-Virginia) (until June 2)

John Bell (Whig-Tennessee) (starting June 2)

• Congress: 23rd

Events

• January 25  - Hillsborough County is created by Florida's territorial legislature.
• March 11  - Survey of the Coast transferred to the Department of the Navy.
• March 28  - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States (censure expunged in 1837).
• April 14  - The Whig Party is officially named by United States Senator Henry Clay.
• June 30  - the 6th Indian Trade and Intercourse Act is updated and renewed Indian Territory is effective.
• July 7 - 10  - Anti-abolitionist riots in New York City.
• July 29  - Office of Indian Affairs organized.
• August 11 - 12  - Ursuline Convent Riots: A convent of Ursuline nuns is burned near Boston.
• October 31  - Solon Robinson settled in the location that would eventually become Crown Point, Indiana.
• November 4  - Delta Upsilon fraternity founded at Williams College.
• November 11  - The rare 1804 dollar coin is struck by the United States Mint.

Undated

• Worcester Academy is founded as the Worcester County Manual Labor High School.
• Franklin College is founded in Franklin, Indiana.
• The Medical College of Louisiana is founded in New Orleans, which later becomes Tulane University.^[1]
• Wake Forest College is founded in Wake Forest, which later becomes Wake Forest University.^[2]
• The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, and begins construction.^[3]

Births

• January 9  - Wilkinson Call, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1879 to 1897 (died 1910)
• January 15  - Samuel Arza Davenport, politician (died 1911)
• February 27  - Charles C. Carpenter, admiral (died 1899)
• March 4  - James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (died 1894)
• March 5
  • Martha Parmelee Rose, journalist, social reformer, philanthropist (died 1923)
  • U. M. Rose, Arkansas lawyer (died 1913)
• March 15  - John K. Bucklyn, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1906)
• March 20  - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (died 1926)
• March 24  - John Wesley Powell, explorer (died 1902)
• March 27  - Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet, travel writer (died 1907)
• April 1  - Big Jim Fisk, entrepreneur (died 1872)
• April 5  - Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (died 1902)
• April 26  - Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (died 1867)
• June 22  - William Chester Minor, Ceylonese-born surgeon and lexicographer (died 1920)
• June 24  - George Arnold, writer and poet (died 1865)
• June 28  - Samuel Pasco, British-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died 1917)
• July 10  - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter and etcher (died 1903 in the United Kingdom)
• July 19  - Benjamin F. Jonas, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1879 to 1885 (died 1911)
• August 22  - Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (died 1906)
• August 27  - James B. Eustis, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1876 to 1879 and from 1885 to 1891 (died 1899)
• September 5  - John G. Carlisle, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1890 to 1893 (died 1910)
• September 6  - Samuel Arnold, conspirator involved in the plot to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 (died 1906)
• October 6  - Walter Kittredge, composer (died 1905)
• October 9  - Rufus Blodgett, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1887 to 1893 (died 1910)
• October 31  - Knowles Shaw, evangelist and hymnwriter (died 1878 in railroad accident)
• November 21  - Hetty Green, businesswoman (died 1916)
• November 24  - Susan Hammond Barney, American social activist and evangelist (died 1922)
• December 6  - Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (died 1920)
• December 15  - Charles Augustus Young, astronomer (died 1908)
• December 24  - Charles W. Jones, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887 (died 1897)

Deaths

• February 2  - Lorenzo Dow, minister (born 1777)
• February 18  - William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (born 1772)
• February 28  - Isaac D. Barnard, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (born 1791)
• May 20  - Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, died in France (born 1757 in France)
• July 26 - Jonathan Jennings, first governor of Indiana (born 1784)
• August 24  - William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (born 1786)
• September 15  - William H. Crawford, politician and judge (born 1772)
• October 10  - Thomas Say, naturalist (born 1787)
• October 31 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (born 1771 in France)

See also

• Timeline of United States history (1820–1859)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tulane University Facts. 2006. tulane.edu. 2007-04-16. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071017112724/http://tulane.edu/about/facts.cfm. 2007-10-17.
2. Web site: Wake Forest University.
3. Web site: Railroad — Wilmington & Raleigh (later Weldon). North Carolina Business History. 2006. 2011-12-02.