Samuel Herrick (Congressional Biographical Directory)

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"Herrick, Samuel," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000542.
HERRICK, Samuel, a Representative from Ohio; born in Amenia, Dutchess County, N.Y., April 14, 1779; pursued an academic course; studied law in Carlisle, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in St.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Fire destroys a large part of Key West, Florida with 110 houses burned

A fire that broke out in the L.M. Shefer warehouse in Key West, Florida burned all but two houses over a twenty acres area in the town of around 2,800 people.  In all, the warehouse and 110 houses were completely destroyed, with property losses that totalled $2,750,000.  (By John Osborne)
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Erskine Mason (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 72.
*Mason, Erskine – Born April 16, 1805, in New York; son of President Mason;  1824-5, Princeton theological seminary; 1826, ordained by New York presbytery; 1827-30, pastor at Schenectady, N. Y.; 1830-51, pastor of Bleeker street Presbyterian church, N. Y.; 1838-46, acting professor of ecclesiastical history in Union theological seminary, N. Y.; D. D., 1837, Columbia college. Died May 14, 1851, in New York.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

Final resistance to the Russian conquest of the Caucasus ends with the capture of Chechen leader Shamil

Russia's long campaign to subdue the Caucasus came to end with a successful campaign in late spring and early summer against forces led by the Circassian religious figure and guerilla leader Imam Shamil.  Forced to make a final stand on Mount Gunib, in the present-day Dagestan Republic, Shamil surrendered on this day to Russian forces.  He and his family were sent to St. Petersburg where he met the Csar.  He spent the rest of his life exiled to Kiev and died on a pilgramage to Mecca in 1871.  (By John Osborne) 

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William Wordsworth's private library of three thousand volumes sold at auction in England

The three-thousand volume private library of famous poet William Wordsworth was sold off over several days in an eagerly awaited auction at his old home at Rhydal Hall in the English Lake District.  He had died in April, 1850. Few books in the collection were rare but most contained signatures and Wordsworth's annotations and sold well.  (By John Osborne)

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Italy, 1858 (Annual Register)

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Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1859 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1860), 73.

(F)rom Annuario Statistico-Italiano for 1858:— "The population of Italy amounts to no less than 27,107,047 inhabitants. They are divided into 15 circumscriptions—eight, containing 19,013,304 souls, are under Italian Governments; and seven, with a population of 7,193,743, obey foreign rule. Italy contains 110 provinces and 10,012 communes, and is one of the countries in which the largest cities and towns are to be found, 19 of them having more than 50,000 inhabitants, and 8 — Rome, Naples, Palermo, Venice, Florence, Milan, Genoa, and Turin —exceed 100,000.

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