He purchased Land Lots 206 and 207 of the 15th District, DeKalb County, from Taylor & Watts of Jasper County in 1826.

John Glen ( 1809 – 1895 ) was born in Laurens, South Carolina and moved to Decatur, Georgia in 1826 where he worked as a clerk in the Superior Court of DeKalb County.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.

In 1826 the family moved to Abington, County Limerick, where Le Fanu's father Thomas took up his second rectorship in southern Ireland.

Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

Lenawee remained attached to Monroe County, out of which it was formed, until an act of the Territorial Legislature passed on December 26, 1826, organized the county government.

Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818, and it was named for the Revolutionary War hero and the first Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby ( 1750 – 1826 ).

He died on a visit home to see his relatives in Lunenburg County in 1826.

* Richard Ellis, born and raised in Lunenburg County, settled in Alabama where he was a member of Alabama ’ s Constitutional Convention in 1818 and an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court ( 1819 – 1826 ).

In 1847, after being a member of the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), William " Little Billy " Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ) of Southampton County began teaching at Rappahannock Academy in Caroline County.

Shelby County was named for Governor Isaac Shelby ( 1750 – 1826 ) of Kentucky.

1826 map of Portage County with 30 townships

Morrow County was organized in 1848 from parts of four neighboring counties and named for Jeremiah Morrow, Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826.

The following are some of the early citizens elected to represent St. Francois County in the Missouri House of Representatives: Henry Poston ( 1826 ); David Murphy ( 1828 ); Corbin Alexander ( 1830, 1832 ).

Jackson County was organized on December 15, 1826 and named for Andrew Jackson, U. S. Senator ( and later President ) from Tennessee.

Jones County, formed out parts of Covington and Wayne counties, was established on January 24, 1826 and was named for John Paul Jones.

When the county was originally formed, it stretched for inland ( twice its current size ), but the western half was split off to form Lenawee County in 1826.

* The County was created in 1826.

* William R. Smith ( Mormon ) ( 1826 – 1894 ), Mormon leader in Davis County, Utah Territory

It was created in 1826 from Wabash County.

Tippecanoe County was formed March 1, 1826, and named for the anglicization of " Kethtippecanoogi ", a Miami term meaning " place of the succor fish people.

Fountain County was officially created on December 30, 1825, the act taking effect on April 1, 1826 ; the boundaries of the county have not changed since that time.

It was designed by architect Isaac Hodgson, who was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1826 and immigrated to the United States in 1848 ; he designed six Indiana courthouses, including the one in Henry County.

The county was officially created on January 18, 1826 from a portion of Edgar County.

File: Peoria County Illinois 1826. png | Peoria County between 1826 and 1827.

* 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.

In 1826 she submitted a revised version of her 1821 essay to the Academy.

For this work he was presented in 1826 with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society ( which he won again in 1836 ), and with the Lalande Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, while in 1821 the Royal Society bestowed upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions.

In 1823 he took a post at Calcutta Academy, but because of poor health he was forced to return to Europe in 1826.

In 1826, the Scottish Academy was founded by a group of artists as an offshoot of the Royal Institution, and in 1838 it became the Royal Scottish Academy ( RSA ).

Within the Bennettsville Historic District, historic buildings include the Jennings Brown House ( 1826 ), the Female Academy ( 1830 ), the Medical Museum ( 1902 ), and the Murchison School ( 1902 ) — as well as other residences in the Queen Anne and Beaux Arts style.

Historical marker in Academy Park ( Albany, New York ) commemorating Henry's work with electricity. Henry excelled at his studies ( so much so, that he would often be helping his teachers teach science ) that in 1826 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at The Albany Academy by Principal T. Romeyn Beck.

* 1826 – Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at The Albany Academy, New York.

In 1826 Chevreul became a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in the same year was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, whose Copley Medal he was awarded in 1857.

The town was also once home to the Robinson Female Seminary, established in 1867 and previously known as the Exeter Female Academy ( established in 1826 ).

The rigidly scientific character of his method becomes increasingly apparent in the Auswahl aus den hochdeutschen Dichtern des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts ( 1820 ), in the edition of Hartmann's Iwein ( 1827 ), in those of Walther von der Vogelweide ( 1827 ) and Wolfram von Eschenbach ( 1833 ), in the papers " Über das Hildebrandslied ," " Über althochdeutsche Betonung und Verskunst ," " Über den Eingang des Parzivals ," and " Über drei Bruchstücke niederrheinischer Gedichte " published in the Abhandlungen of the Berlin Academy, and in Der Nibelunge Not und die Klage ( 1826 ), which was followed by a critical commentary in 1836.

The Academy started to publish annual reports in physics and chemistry ( 1826 ), technology ( 1827 ), botany ( 1831 ), and zoology ( 1832 ).

In 1826, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1826, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

** Governor DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828-son of James, Kingston Academy 1782, Columbia College 1786, NY Bar 1789, Secretary to Governor 1789-1798, NY Assembly 1798, U. S. Senator 1802, resigned, 1803, mayor of New York City 1803, 1808 – 1809, 1811 – 1815 ; NYS Senate 1799 – 1802, 1806 – 1811, Canal Commissioner 1816 – 1822, Governor 1817, 1820, 1824, 1826, Dewitt is best known for the Erie Canal and the NY State Canal System.

Mississippi College, originally known as Hampstead Academy, received its first charter, signed by Governor David Holmes, on January 24, 1826.

He graduated from Charlotte Hall Military Academy and entered the U. S. Navy as a midshipman in 1826.

One day in September 1826, Eliza was chatting with classmates from Rhea Academy when she spotted Andrew Johnson and his family pull into town with all their belongings.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1826.

Life class at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1826 by Wilhelm Bendz.

Furman was founded in 1826 at Edgefield, SC as a Men's Academy and Theological Institute.

Returning to New York, he displayed five landscapes in the window of William Coleman's bookstore ; according to the New York Evening Post Two Views of Coldspring were purchased by Mr. A. Seton, who lent them to the American Academy of the Fine Arts annual exhibition in 1826.