Obed Hussey was born to a Quaker family in Maine in 1792.  He was an tireless inventor and gained fame when he patented in 1833 the first working reaping machine.  Further notoriety followed due to the long rivalry for the improvement and sale of reapers with Cyrus Hall McCormick, a contest McCormick eventually won in 1858.  Hussey died in a freak accident when he slipped and fell under the wheels of moving a train in Exeter, Maine.  (By John Osborne)   

On his continuing North American tour, Prince Albert and his party visited Montreal, the largest and richest city in Canada.  He spent several days in the city, visited the Governor-General, worshiped at the Christ Church Cathedral, dedicated the new Victoria Bridge, attended any number of parades and balls, and toured the surrounding areas.  He left for his next stop, the newly selected future capital of the Dominion of Canada, Ottawa. (By John Osborne)

Oliver Loving, a Kentucky-born rancher in Texas and three other men drove 1,500 head of cattle to the Colorado Territory, the first such cattle drive ever attempted.  They wintered the herd in Pueblo and sold them for gold to the miners of booming Denver.  In the following years Loving partnered with fellow rancher Charles Goodnight driving Texas cattle to Colorado and New Mexico.  (By John Osborne) 

John Joseph Pershing was born in Derry Township, Missouri, the eldest son of  a section foreman on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad and his wife. As he was growing up, his parents ran a store in Laclede, Missouri where in 1864 he witnessed first-hand the Civil War when Confederate raiders attacked the town.  He entered West Point in 1882, was commissioned into the cavalry, and rose to command the A.E.F. in W.W. I.  He died with the rank of General of the Armies in Washington DC in July 1948.  (By John Osborne)