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List of events
Events from the year 1859 in the United States .
Incumbents Events January–March February 27: Philip Barton Key II is killed by Daniel Sickles in Washington April–June July–September October–December October 16–18: John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry Undated Ongoing Births January 6 – Duncan U. Fletcher , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1909 to 1936 (died 1936 ) January 9 – Carrie Chapman Catt , women's suffrage leader (died 1947 ) January 12 – Henry Heitfeld , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1897 to 1903 (died 1938 ) January 25 – Lillie Eginton Warren , educator (year of death unknown) January 29 – Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau , née Avegno, society beauty (died 1915 in France ) February 6 – Elias Disney , farmer, father of Walt Disney (died 1941 ) February 22 – Samuel D. Nicholson , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1921 to 1923 (died 1923 ) February 25 – John Burke , 24th Treasurer of the United States (died 1937 ) March 12 – Abraham H. Cannon , Mormon apostle (died 1896 ) March 21 – Abbie Pratt , golfer (died 1938 in France )[3] April 12 – Junius George Groves , slave-born potato farmer (died 1925 ) May 12 – William Alden Smith , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1907 to 1919 (died 1932 ) June 29 – Margaret Ashmore Sudduth , educator, editor and temperance advocate (died 1957 ) July 13 – Marion Manville Pope , author (died 1930 ) July 31 – Theobald Smith , bacteriologist (died 1934 ) August 15 – Charles Comiskey , baseball baseman, manager and owner (died 1931 ) August 28 – Matilda Howell , archer (died 1938 )[4] September 16 – Frank R. Gooding , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1921 to 1928 (died 1928 ) September 17 – Billy The Kid , Old West gunfighter (died 1881 ) October 20 – John Dewey , educator born in Vermont (died 1952 ) November 1 – Charles Brantley Aycock , 50th Governor of North Carolina (died 1912 ) December 20 – Adaline Hohf Beery , songbook compiler (died 1929 ) Deaths The Last Moments of John Brown by Thomas Hovenden , 1882–1884January 28 – William H. Prescott , Hispanist historian (born 1796 ) January 29 – William Cranch Bond , astronomer (born 1789 ) February 25 – Edward A. Hannegan , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1843 to 1849 (born 1807 ) February 27 – Philip Barton Key II , United States Attorney for the District of Columbia , murdered (born 1818 ) March 19 – Oliver H. Smith , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1837 to 1843 (born 1794 ) March 30 – James Matthews Legaré , poet and inventor (born 1823 ) April 14 – George M. Bibb , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1811 to 1814 (born 1776 ) June 8 – Walter Hunt , inventor (born 1796 ) July 30 – Richard Rush , 8th United States Attorney General and 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1780 ) August 2 – Horace Mann , educator and abolitionist (born 1796 ) August 15 – Nathaniel Claiborne , politician (born 1777 ) September 2 – Delia Bacon , playwright and writer on the Shakespeare authorship question (born 1811 ) September 16 – David C. Broderick , U.S. Senator from California from 1857 to 1859 (born 1820 ) November 28 – Washington Irving , author (born 1783 ) December 2 – John Brown , abolitionist, hanged (born 1800 ) See also References External links