It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

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Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Daniel Defoe fiction at The Literature Network

* The Journeys of Daniel Defoe around Britain ( from a Vision of Britain )

* Life of Daniel Defoe at luminarium. org

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* July 29 – July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet ( his release is granted in mid-November ).

Susan B. Anthony was born to Daniel Anthony ( 1794 – 1862 ) and Lucy Read ( 1793 – 1880 ) and raised in West Grove, Adams, Massachusetts.

* Daniel Freeman, the first person to file a claim under the Homestead Act of 1862.

In the summer of 1862, some 2, 600 Confederate troops under generals John C. Breckinridge ( the former Vice President of the United States ) and Daniel Ruggles attempted in vain to regain control of Baton Rouge.

* First time Army bugle call Taps played: July 1862, by bugler Oliver W. Norton ; the melody was written at Harrison's Landing on the plantation by then General Daniel Butterfield.

Daniel Oliver Morton ( 1788 – 1852 ), a Congregationalist minister of old New England stock, and Lucretia Parsons ( 1789 – 1862 ).

Originally a much larger town, rectangular in shape ( except for a small extension southward taking up part of the modern area of Knight's Corner ) and extending eastward to the top of Prescott Hill ( where Daniel Shays once lived ), the land east of the West Branch of the Swift River was annexed by the town of Prescott in the latter half of the nineteenth centuries ( maps made in 1855 and 1862 both show this land still belonging to Pelham ).

Daniel Freeman, the first homesteader to file a claim under the Homestead Act of 1862, staked his claim at a New Year's Eve party in Brownville.

Other historical figures and famous people who have lived in Esopus include naturalist John Burroughs, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who founded the American Express Company and wrote “ Taps ” in 1862, and 1904 Democratic nominee for president Alton Brooks Parker, a lawyer and judge, who lost to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt.

The tune is actually a variation of an earlier bugle call known as the Scott Tattoo which was used in the U. S. from 1835 until 1860, and was arranged in its present form by the Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, an American Civil War general and Medal of Honor recipient who commanded the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division in the V Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac while at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, in July 1862 to replace a previous French bugle call used to signal " lights out ".

In July 1862, at Harrison's Landing ( now Berkeley Plantation ), Virginia, Norton, as regimental bugler, was the first ever to play " Taps ," which was written then and there by Gen. Daniel Butterfield, the regimental commander.

Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.

* John Daniel FitzGerald ( 1862 – 1922 ), Australian politician

In 1862 American missionaries in Lebanon and Syria, under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, asked Daniel Bliss to establish a college of higher learning that would include medical training.

In his book, Birds of the Cambridge Region, Brewster himself wrote, " On January 1, 1862, my friend Mr. Daniel C. French called at our house to give me my first lesson in taxidermy, an art known in those days to but very few persons save the professional bird stuffers.

* Folklorists: Daniel Silvan Evans ( Y Brython, 1858 ), Peter Roberts ( Cambrian Popular Antiquities, 1815 ), W. Howells ( Cambrian Supertitions, 1831 ), Isaac Foulkes ( Cymru Fu, 1862 ), Wirt Sikes ( British Goblins, 1880 ), Daniel Silvan Evans, John Jones and others ( Ysten Sioned ), Elias Owen ( Welsh Folklore, 1896 ), Marie Trevelyan ( Folklore and Folk Stories of Wales, 1909 ), J. Ceredig Davies ( Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales, 1911 ).

Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations, publishing such great authors as Charles Kingsley ( 1855 ), Thomas Hughes ( 1859 ), Francis Turner Palgrave ( 1861 ), Christina Rossetti ( 1862 ), Matthew Arnold ( 1865 ) and Lewis Carroll ( 1865 ).

On 21 February 1862 Daniel was posted to Fort Tarbert, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug ( February 26, 1794 – October 15, 1862 ), German statesman, was born at Hanau in Hesse.

* Daniel Murray ( mathematician ) ( 1862 – 1934 ), Canadian mathematician

Cotton, who succeeded Daniel Wilson, had the honour of consecrating the cathedral on 25 January 1862.

Daniel Swarovski ( 1862 – 1956 ), the founder of the company

Daniel Swarovski ( October 24, 1862 – January 23, 1956 ), formerly Daniel Swartz, was born in northern Bohemia ( now the Czech Republic ).