On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

* 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, France-Scottish actor, director, and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American writer and public speaker ( d. 1941 )

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

* 1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer ( d. 1938 )

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

* 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter ( d. 1900 )

* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and inventor ( d. 1939 )

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and composer ( d. 1936 )

* March 17 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States ( b. 1860 )

Susanna Madora " Dora " Salter ( March 2, 1860 – March 17, 1961 ) was a U. S. politician and activist.

* Susanna M. Salter ( 1860 – 1961 ), U. S. politician, first woman mayor in the United States

* 1860 – Elias M. Ammons, American politician ( d. 1925 )

* 1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author ( d. 1937 )

* June 19 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and dramatist ( b. 1860 )

* May 20 – Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado ( b. 1860 )

* 1860 The Duties of Man and Other Essays, J. M.

They had seven children ( five sons and two daughters ): Eliza Arabella Garfield ( 1860 – 63 ); Harry Augustus Garfield ( 1863 – 1942 ); James Rudolph Garfield ( 1865 – 1950 ); Mary Garfield ( 1867 – 1947 ); Irvin M. Garfield ( 1870 – 1951 ); Abram Garfield ( 1872 – 1958 ); and Edward Garfield ( 1874 – 76 ).

He also edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon ( 1858 ) and Bishop Pecock's Represser of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy ( 1860 ); Introductory Lecture on Archaeology ( 1865 ); Roman Antiquities found at Rougham ( 1872 ); Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk ( 1884 – 1886 ); Flora of Suffolk ( with W. M. Hind, 1889 ), etc.

Works of art depicting valkyries include " Die Walküren " ( sketch, 1818 ) by J. G. Sandberg, " Reitende Walküre " ( fresco ), previously located in Munich palace but now destroyed, 1865 / 1866 by M. Echter, " Valkyrien " and " Valkyriens død " ( paintings, both from 1860 ), " Walkürenritt " ( etching, 1871 ) by A. Welti, " Walkürenritt " ( woodcut, 1871 ) by T. Pixis, " Walkürenritt " ( 1872 ) by A. Becker ( reproduced in 1873 with the same title by A. v. Heyde ), " Die Walkyren " ( charcoal, 1880 ) and " Walkyren wählen und wecken die gefallenen Helden ( Einherier ), um sie vom Schlachtfield nach Walhall zu geleiten " ( painting, 1882 ) and " Walkyrenschlacht " ( oil painting, 1884 ) by K. Ehrenberg, " Walkürenritt " ( oil painting, 1888, and etching, 1890 ) by A. Welti, " Walküre " ( statue ) by H. Günther, " Walkürenritt " ( oil painting ) by H. Hendrich, " Walkürenritt " ( painting ) by F. Leeke, " Einherier " ( painting, from around 1900 ), by K. Dielitz, " The Ride of the Valkyries " ( painting, from around 1900 ) by J. C. Dollman, " Valkyrie " ( statue, 1910 ) and " Walhalla-freeze " ( located in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1886 / 1887 ), " Walkyrien " ( print, 1915 ) by A. Kolb, and " Valkyrier " ( drawing, 1925 ) by E. Hansen.

* Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Bt ( J M Barrie, Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan ) ( 1860 – 1937 )

A. M. Jobard in 1838, C. de Changy in 1856, John Wellington Starr in 1845 and Joseph Swan in 1860.

* M. Young, Aonio Palearso ( 1860 )

From 1836 transient workers were brought to the area to work on the I & M Canal ; however, it was not until 1860, when the United States Government deeded property to a local settler, Hurls Polk, that the name " Polk " was given to the area.

Marcus Peck ; 1831, William F. Averill ; 1832, Eleazer Flint ; 1833, Carpenter G. Conklin ; 1834, William L. Stewart ; 1835, Marcus Peck ; 1836, William F. Averill, Eleazer Flint ; 1837, William F. Averill ; 1838, Jacob Hegeman ; 1839, Marcus Peck, John Wood ; 1840, Jacob Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1841, Rescome H. Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1842, George Carnryck ; 1843, Marcus Peck ; 1844, Jacob Wheeler, Eleazer Wooster ; 1845, Eleazer Wooster ; 1846, George Carnryck ; 1847, Marcus Peck ; 1848, Jacob Wheeler, Willard Foster, Joseph Bly ; 1849, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1851, B. F. Foster, Adam Mott ; 1852, Jacob Boyce ; 1853, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1854, Lewis Sliter, William S. Stewart ; 1855, William Moul, John L. Lape, Thomas Brewer ; 1856, Jacob Wheeler ; 1857, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1858, William M. Horton ;: 859, Joel B. Peck, William Moul ; 1860, S. D. Seymour, Joshua Coons ; 1862, George Sliter ; 1863, William Moul ; 1864, B.

The M & C got out of bankruptcy in 1860.

* Stotz, Charles M., The Architectural Heritage of Early Western Pennsylvania: A Record of Buildings to 1860.

An elder son, Matthew Talbot Baines ( 1799 – 1860 ), went to the bar ; he became recorder of Kingston upon Hull in ( 1837 ), M. P.

* M Goebel, Geschichte des christlichen Lebens in der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Kirche ( 3 vols., 1849 – 1860 ).

* June 19-J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist ( born 1860 )

Célimare le bien-aimé ( 1863 ), Le Voyage de M. Perrichon ( 1860 ), La Grammaire, Un Pied dans le crime, La Cagnotte ( 1864 ), were some of Labiche's most important plays.

In 1860, Froude's wife Charlotte died ; in 1861, he married her close friend Henrietta Warre, daughter of John Warre, M. P.

* Outlines of the first course of Yale agricultural lectures ; C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co., New York 1860

The B & M leased the Danvers Railroad in 1853, and the combined Newburyport Railroad in 1860, making the line from Wakefield to Newburyport the main line and the old line to Bradford a branch.

* M. Taylor, The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847 – 1860 ( 1995 ).