1834 in the United States

::John Bell (Whig-Tennessee) (starting June 2) - Congress: [23rd](23rd-united-states-congress) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## 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 break out in New York City. - July 29 – The Office of Indian Affairs is 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](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. - Wake Forest College is founded in Wake Forest, which later becomes Wake Forest University. - The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, and begins construction. ## Births - January 9 – Wilkinson Call, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1879 to 1897 (died [1910](1910-in-the-united-states)) - January 15 – Samuel Arza Davenport, politician (died [1911](1911-in-the-united-states)) - February 27 – Charles C. Carpenter, admiral (died [1899](1899-in-the-united-states)) - March 4 – James W. McDill, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (died [1894](1894-in-the-united-states)) - March 5 - Martha Parmelee Rose, journalist, social reformer, philanthropist (died [1923](1923-in-the-united-states)) - U. M. Rose, Arkansas lawyer (died [1913](1913-in-the-united-states)) - March 15 – John K. Bucklyn, Medal of Honor recipient (died [1906](1906-in-the-united-states)) - March 20 – Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University (died [1926](1926-in-the-united-states)) - March 24 – John Wesley Powell, explorer (died [1902](1902-in-the-united-states)) - March 27 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet, travel writer (died [1907](1907-in-the-united-states)) - April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, entrepreneur (died [1872](1872-in-the-united-states)) - April 5 – Frank R. Stockton, short story writer (died 1902) - April 26 – Charles Farrar Browne ("Artemus Ward"), humorist (died [1867](1867-in-the-united-states)) - June 22 – William Chester Minor, Ceylonese-born surgeon and lexicographer (died [1920](1920-in-the-united-states)) - June 24 – George Arnold, writer and poet (died [1865](1865-in-the-united-states)) - June 28 – Samuel Pasco, British-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1887 to 1899 (died [1917](1917-in-the-united-states)) - July 10 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter and etcher (died [1903 in the United Kingdom](1903-in-the-united-kingdom)) - July 19 – Benjamin F. Jonas, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1879 to 1885 (died [1911](1911-in-the-united-states)) - August 22 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist and aeronautics pioneer (died [1906](1906-in-the-united-states)) - August 27 – James B. Eustis, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1876 to 1879 and from 1885 to 1891 (died [1899](1899-in-the-united-states)) - 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](1905-in-the-united-states)) - 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](1878-in-the-united-states) in railroad accident) - November 21 – Hetty Green, businesswoman (died [1916](1916-in-the-united-states)) - November 24 – Susan Hammond Barney, American social activist and evangelist (died [1922](1922-in-the-united-states)) - December 6 – Henry W. Blair, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1879 to 1891 (died [1920](1920-in-the-united-states)) - December 15 – Charles Augustus Young, astronomer (died [1908](1908-in-the-united-states)) - December 24 – Charles W. Jones, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Florida from 1875 to 1887 (died [1897](1897-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - February 2 – Lorenzo Dow, minister (born [1777](1777-in-the-united-states)) - February 18 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (born [1772](1772)) - February 28 – Isaac D. Barnard, U.S. Senator from 1827 to 1831 (born [1791](1791-in-the-united-states)) - May 20 – Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, died in France (born [1757 in France](1757-in-france)) - July 26 - Jonathan Jennings, first governor of Indiana (born [1784](1784-in-the-united-states)) - August 24 – William Kelly, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1822 to 1825 (born [1786](1786-in-the-united-states)) - September 15 – William H. Crawford, politician and judge (born 1772) - October 10 – Thomas Say, naturalist (born [1787](1787-in-the-united-states)) - October 31 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, chemical manufacturer (born [1771 in France](1771-in-france)) ## References ## References 1. (2006). ["Tulane University Facts"](http://tulane.edu/about/facts.cfm). *tulane.edu*. 2. ["Wake Forest University"](http://wfu.edu). 3. (2006). 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