Harriet Taylor Mill, wife of and collaborator with John Stuart Mill, dies at Avignon in France

Harriet Taylor Mill died of tuberculosis at Avignon in France at the age of fifty-one. Married to the eminent British political philosopher and writer John Stuart Mill for seven years after the death of her first husband but an intimate and collaborator with him since 1832, she had been a vital influence on his thinking. Mill acknowledged her contributions especially on his On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, which would be largely considered her work. (By John Osborne)
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"Miss Leslie," America's most popular cooking writer, dies in New Jersey

Eliza Leslie, known popularly as "Miss Leslie" for her many books on cooking and etiquette, died in Gloucester, New Jersey at the age of seventy. For more than twenty-five years, she had been providing American women with a stream of books and recipes, many of which in a mild manner incorporated Native American and West Indian influences. (By John Osborne)

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John Kintzing Kane, the U.S. District Judge who ruled against Passmore Williamson in the Jane Johnson case, dies in Philadelphia

Judge John K. Kane dies in Philadelphia at the age of sixty-two. Two years earlier, he had been the U.S. District Court Judge who had imprisoned Passmore Williamson for contempt of court under the Fugitive Slave Law in the case of Jane Johnson, a fugitive slave. When his abolitionist son, Thomas Kane, had resigned his position as his clerk of the court in protest at this decision, Judge Kane found him in contempt, as well. At the time of his death, Judge Kane was the president of the American Philosophical Society. (By John Osborne)
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Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide in Houston

Anson Jones, the fourth and final President of the Texas republic, shoots himself in his room at the Old Capitol Hotel in Houston. The Hotel had originally housed the Republic of Texas government. Originally from Massachusetts and a medical doctor who fought in the Texas Revolution, he is considered by many, because of his negotiations with the United States, to have been "the Architect of Annexation." He was fifty-nine years old at the time of his death. (By John Osborne)
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Comanches defeated at the Battle of Little Robe Creek in Oklahoma and their chief, Iron Jacket, killed

Under the command of Captain John Ford, Texas Rangers and Texas militia, together their Native American allies, moved into the Indian Territory along the Canadian River to confront the Comanches there. This was, in fact, contrary to federal law at the time, despite the Comanche use of the area as a safe haven for raids into Texas. In a series of three battles fought on the same day, the Comanches were defeated and their leader, Iron Shirt, was killed. (By John Osborne)
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The British-born writer Henry William Herbert shoots himself in the Stevens House Hotel in New York City

The British-born writer, Henry William Herbert, who had settled in New York in the 1830s and wrote under the pen name "Frank Forester," committed suicide in a New York Hotel. The famous poet and writer on sports hunting and fishing had been suffering from melancholy for some time, a trait that his pessimistic observations on the rising tide of commercial values over sporting ones, together with the death of his two wives, had intensified. At the age of fifty-one, he shot himself in the heart. (By John Osborne)
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James Pinckney Henderson, the new Senator from Texas, dies in Philadelphia before even taking his seat

James Pinckney Henderson, the newly elected Senator from the state, dies of tuberculosis in Philadelphia. He had traveled first to Cuba and then to Philadelphia for treatment before even taking up his duties in Washington and never took his seat. Henderson had become, in 1845, the first governor of Texas after it joined the Union. He was fifty years old at his death. (By John Osborne)
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Benjamin Franklin Butler, former Attorney General of the United States, dies in Paris

Benjamin Franklin Butler of New York, Attorney General of the United States during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations, died on this day in Paris, aged sixty-two. He had slowly moved away from the Democratic Party since 1848, supporting the Free Soil Party in New York, speaking against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and, finally, voting for John Fremont in 1856. (By John Osborne)
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Senator Thomas Hart Benton, "Old Bullion," dies of cancer in Washington, D.C.

Thomas Hart Benton, who had become the first Senator from Missouri in 1820 and had served in the Senate from then until 1850, dies of cancer in Washington D.C.  One of the most influential statesmen of his time, he passes away the day after he had finished his sixteen-volume Abridgment of the Debates in Congress. He will be buried in St. Louis, Missouri. (By John Osborne)
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