David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

* 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American film director ( d. 1948 )

* John W. Brown ( New York politician ) ( 1796 – 1875 ), U. S. representative ( JD – NY, 1833 – 1837 )

The Graces moved to London in February 1875 when W. G.

His first publisher, Appleton, reissued the original ( 1875 ) edition with two new chapters about Sherman ’ s later years added by the journalist W. Fletcher Johnson ( 1891 Johnson edition:

One of the gadflies of Aestheticism, W. S. Gilbert, introduced Harlequin and Pierrot as love-struck twin brothers into Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing ( 1875 ), for which Thomas German Reed wrote the music.

It was named for George W. Emery, governor of the Utah Territory in 1875.

Samuel W. Fordyce and two other entrepreneurs financed the construction of the first luxury hotel in the area, the first Arlington Hotel which opened in 1875.

Founded in 1875, Garrett was named for John W. Garrett ( 1820 – 1884 ), president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1858 to 1884.

On January 1, 1875, W. G.

Few operated a distillery and George W. Few became the first postmaster on September 22, 1875.

It was platted in 1875 by the Taopi Farming Company in the name of John W. Wood.

Harvey W. Braniger ( 1875 – 1953 ), a native of Morning Sun, Iowa and developer of Ivanhoe at Chicago, is generally considered the founder of Gulf Hills.

The " Magnolia Herald " was established by Luke W. Conerly in 1875 and he continued as its proprietor and editor until 1878.

The town of Amenia traces its roots to a group of wealthy New England investors from the villages of Amenia, New York and Sharon, Connecticut which formed the Amenia and Sharon Land Company and, in July 1875, under the representation of Eben W. Chaffee, purchased of land from the then bankrupt Northern Pacific Railroad.

It was named in honor of rancher Stephen W. Ryan, an Arkansas native who settled near present Ryan in 1875.

* David W. Ballard ( 1824 – 1875 ), governor of Idaho territory

The townsite was founded in 1875 by W. P.

Men working for I. P. Lambing ( superintendent at the mine ) of Golden, Colorado and Colonel Stephen W. Downey ( a lawyer and president of what would become Centennial Gold Mining Company ) of Laramie, Wyoming, discovered gold on what would become Centennial Ridge on Centennial Mountain in 1875.

The Universal North Building ( foreground ; Universal South Building is in the background ) located at 1875 Connecticut Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D. C. | N. W.

* Powell, J. W. ( 1875 ).

* William W. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 1871 – 1875 and 1877 – 1879

* Dictionary of Hamilton Biography ( Vol I, 1791 – 1875 ) Thomas Melville Bailey, W. L.

* Fairholme ( Fairman Rogers mansion ) Carriage House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1874 – 1875 ( now Jean and David W. Wallace Hall, Salve Regina University ).

Then in 1875, apparently in response to the nationalizing influence of the Civil War, Congress first gave the lower federal courts general authority -- concurrently with state tribunals -- to decide cases involving federal-right questions.

Congress reacted with a series of measures modifying in various ways what it had granted in 1875.

To the extent that the jurisdictional principle of 1875 stands unmodified by subsequent legislation, federal equitable relief against state action must be available -- or so it seems to Mr. Justice Frankfurter.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

Later in life, Mary struggled with the stresses of losing her husband and sons, and Robert Lincoln committed her temporarily to a mental health asylum in 1875.

In 1875 Nobel invented gelignite, more stable and powerful than dynamite, and in 1887 patented ballistite, a forerunner of cordite.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 1875 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist ( d. 1967 )

* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist ( d. 1959 )

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

* 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter ( d. 1957 )

1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

From 1872 Henry continued diligently with his father's work and then intermittently in retirement in 1875.

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1875 – Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil ( d. 1955 )

* 1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

* 1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer ( d. 1936 )

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

Senator Andrew Johnson in 1875.

During a Congressional recess, Johnson died from a stroke near Elizabethton, Tennessee, on July 31, 1875.

Complete to 1875.

* 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist ( d. 1966 )