8

Azor Nash 82
John Gordon 83
Barzilla Martin (Gordon) 63
John Dudley 69

7

Mary Bowerman (Gifford) 79
Reuben Davis 73
Thomas Hopper 71
John Williamson 55
Nancy Sickels (Williamson) 50
Johan Mathias Noah 77
Elizabeth Schmidt (Noah) 69
Aaron Mattson 92 died
Rachel Stern (Pierson) 63
Thomas Guymon 50
Sarah Gordon (Guymon) 46
James Dudley 55
Palle Pallemon Fix 97
Charles Alexander Durham 64
Mary Patience Davis (Durham) 65
Henry Etters 69
Catherine Teavebaugh or Devenpaugh (Etters) 52
Zachariah Earls 43
Jemima Harden (or Harding) (Earls) 53

6

James H Clements 57
Lucy Owens (Clements) 56
Charles M. Powell 52
Nancy Smith (Powell) 52
Alpheus Gifford 44
Anna Nash (Gifford) 37
George Washington Braffett 36
Amanda Davis (Braffett) 39
Ebenezer Snow 53
Polly Hayes (Snow) 49
Ralph Smith 48
Mary Walsh (Smith) 46
John Killian 41
Libbeus Thaddeous Coons 26
Mary Ann Williamsen (Coons) 25
Asahel Perry 53
Polly Chadwick (Perry) 48
Charles Hulet 47
Margaret Ann Haynes Noah (Hulet) 43
Ann Pierson (Matson) 40
Noah Thomas Guymon 18
Mary Dickerson Dudley (Guymon) 23
Niels Eriksen 63
Thomas Russon 42
Sarah Davis (Russon) 42
John Southhall 14
Sarah Round (Southhall? or Smart) 33
John Wilson 63
Nancy Wilkey (Wilson) 43
William Clark 43
Jane Wilkie (Clark) 41
William H. Green 29
Eunice "Unicy" Durham (Green) 28
Jacob Etters 29
Trythena Earl (Etters) 29

5

Albert Clements 36
Ada (Aidah) Winchell (Clements) 36
Levi Jasper Powell 31
Mary Elizabeth Parker (Powell) 31
Henry Dill Gifford 12
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 8
Bernard Snow 15
Alice Smith (Snow) 9
Jacob Killian 9
Stephen Chadwick Perry 19
Anna Maria Hulet (Perry) 20
George Brinton Matson 10
Thomas Jensen 61
Sidzel (Zidsel) Jorgensdatter (Jensen) 49
Elisha Peck I 21
Phebe Turner (Peck) 26
Lott Russon 8
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 7
George Wilson 12
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 12
Jonas Green 9
Eliza Elvira Etters (Green) 5

4

Richard Alvin Lowe 11
Joseph Jasper Powell 3
Peder Pedersen 25
Marianne Thompson (Thomasen) (Pedersen) 19
Anders Peder Jensen 12
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 9

General

Population: 1.18 Billion*

• Business: Pitman publishes manual of "Stenographic soundhand"
• Entertainment: Writers include Balzac, Hawthorne, Lamartine (epic poem), William H Prescott (Isabella and Ferdinand), Bernhard Bolzano (philosophy of logic), Thomas Carlyle (French revolution), Dickens Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers
  Music includes Auber, Berlioz, Lortzing "Zar und Zimmerman" (Czar and Carpenter), Liszt,
• Science: Poisson publishes about probability
  Agassiz presents ice age theory and Swiss scientists react with hostility
  Andrew Crosse "created life" while trying to create crystals – disputed but supposedly repeated
  Darwin formulates natural selection but delays publishing
  Tiedemann publishes that brain sizes and intelligence between the races has no differences
• Technology: Wheatstone and Cooke patent electric telegraph
  Telegraph invented by Bell
  Morse exhibits electric telegraph at New York
  Steel plow invented by John Deere
  Threshing machine invented
• Deaths: William IV of England, Painter François Gerard, Artist John Constable, Composer John Field, Author Giacomo Leopardi, Poet Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin in duel, Dramatist Georg Buchner, Satirist Ludwig Borne, Sanskrit scholar Henry T. Colebrooke, Composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer JF Lesueur, Composer Nicola Zingarelli, Mrs. Hitzherbert of King George IV,

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opens with Mary Mason Lyon as founder

Africa

• South Africa: Continuation of Great Trek of Boers - Natal founded by Afrikaners

Americas

• General: USS Caroline set on fire and sunk by Canadians across the Niagara
• Canada: Constitution revolts in lower and upper Canada - in French Canada by Louis Papineau
  First Canadian railroad
  Minority rebels flee across US border
• St. Thomas: Cyclone and quake

Asia

• India: Famine and migration
  Yogi Hari Das puts self into suspended animation for 40 days buried
• Japan: Shogunate of Tokugawa Ieyoshi begins until 1853
  US ttempt to open trade fails

Europe

• General: End of union between Britain and Hanover
• France: First French railroad links Paris with Saint-Germain
• German States: Ernst Augustus of Hanover cancels constitution of 1833 and dismiss professors who protested him
  First kindergarten opens by Friedrich Frobel in Blankenburg Thuringia
  Industrialist August Borsig opens iron foundry and engine-building factory in Berlin
• Great Britain: Death of William IV of England - reign of niece Victoria begins age 18
  Mazzini arrives in London as exile
  Records of 11-mile 220 yard Crick Run Race at Rugby School in Warwickshire
  Lord Melbourne the PM of Britain and Queen Victoria have mutual fondness and she favors him politically
  Benjamin Disraeli delivers maiden speech before House of Commons
  England introduces birth registration
  Death of morganatic Wife of King George IV Mrs. Hitzherbert
• Greece: U of Athens founded

Middle East

Pacific

• Antarctica: Frenchman Jules Dumont d’Urville attempts to chart coast of Antarctica until 1840

President:

Pres: Andrew Jackson
Pres: Martin Van Buren inaugurated

General

• Business: Candlemaker William Procter and cousin and soapmaker James Gamble merge businesses
• Finance: Banks stop issuing specie (backed notes)
  Panic of 1837 - Financial and economic panic in America due to inflated land values and speculation in the pet banks
• Law: Gag Law which suppresses slavery debate passed by US Congress
• Politics: Van Buren promises to follow Jackson, but changes due to depression
• Religion: American Presbyterians split into old and new schools
• Transportation: Railroad halted due to depression

East

• Massachusetts: First state board of education with Horace Mann
• New York: First boat race sponsored by Castle Garden Boat Club Association in Poughkeepsie
  NYSE begins paying salary for president
  First Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
• Pennsylvania: Cheney State Training School is first major black college
  Typhus outbreak

Midwest

• General: Smallpox on plains
• Illinois: EP Lovejoy editor of abolitionist paper murdered by mob
• Michigan: Disenfranchisement of blacks
  Statehood #26
• Ohio: First enrollment (three females) of black students in Oberlin College

South

• Georgia: 10 inches of snow fall in Savannah in March
• Texas: Recognized as separate nation

West and Pacific

• Utah: First trading post in Utah by Robidoux

President

Pres: Joseph Smith

Membership: 16,282

Temples: 1

Other

• Parley P. Pratt publishes Voice of Warning in New York
• British Mission (first in Church) organized
• Nine people baptized in Preston at River Ribble July 30th - 1000 more by year's end
• Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company begins circulating notes - charter not granted by Ohio - eventually fails
• Anti-LDS paper complains the Church violating the law by running a bank without a charter, and that it would be illegal to trade with the Kirtland Safety Society
• Panic of 1837 – Several Elders denounce Joseph, "Great Apostasy" within church as 10-15 percent fall away (200-300)
• "Church of Christ" (Old Standard) made by 30 plus saints and they declare Joseph fallen, then rejects BOM and tries to take over temple
• The three witnesses, a member of first presidency, 4 of 12 apostles and several 70s leave
• Assassination plot against Joseph Smith discovered
• Joseph and loyal saints leave for MO for final time
• Preston England becomes cch headquarters in Britain
• Lorenzo Snow serves mission in OH