On August 22, 1848, after a four-year engagement, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent ( 1826 – 1902 ), the daughter of a prominent Missouri plantation and slave owner, and sister of a West Point roommate, Frederick.

Between 1826 and 1831 settlers arrived from Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and other Southern states.

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 ).

The city served as the first Missouri capital from 1821 to 1826.

The Missouri government continued to meet there until Jefferson City was ready in 1826.

In 1826, Kearny was appointed as the first commander of the new Jefferson Barracks in Missouri south of St. Louis.

* John Miller ( Missouri politician ) ( 1781 – 1846 ), Governor of Missouri, 1826 – 1832 ; U. S. Representative from Missouri, 1837 – 1843

Further, the Diocese of St Louis, Missouri, was established in 1826 and the cornerstone of the current Basilica laid in 1831 on the western bank of the Mississippi river.

In 1826 Jackson moved with several of his older brothers to Missouri, settling in the Howard County town of Franklin.

Dubourg condemned this decision by Segura and the parish churchwardens, but Segura remained in the post until the appointment of Leo-Raymond de Neckere as Bishop of New Orleans in 1830 .< ref > Henry E. Yoes III ,< u > Louisiana's German Coast: A History of St. Charles Parish </ u >, 2nd ed., Lake Charles, LA: Racing Pigeon Digest, 2005, p. 104 .</ ref > In 1826, Dubourg made his last trip to Missouri, visiting Perryville, Ste.

They left Missouri about 1826 to explore what is now southern Colorado along the upper Arkansas River to trap for furs and establish a trade business.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson ( January 22, 1826 – September 5, 1876 ) was a brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War.

He was the third Governor of Missouri, serving an unelected interim term in 1825 and 1826 following the death of Frederick Bates.

In July, 1826 Missouri Governor John Miller appointed Pettis the Missouri Secretary of State.

The Rindisbacher family relocated to Wisconsin in 1826, and then settled permanently in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1829.

Jameson was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky in Montgomery County, Kentucky, March 6, 1802 ; attended the common schools ; moved to Callaway County, Missouri, in 1825 ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Fulton, Missouri ; held several local offices ; member of the Missouri House of Representatives 1830-1836 and served as speaker in 1834 and 1836 ; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Albert G. Harrison and served from December 12, 1839 to March 3, 1841 ; was not a candidate for renomination in 1840 ; elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress ( March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845 ); was not a candidate for renomination in 1844 ; elected to the Thirtieth Congress ( March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849 ); was not a candidate for renomination in 1848 ; ordained as a minister in the Christian Church ; also engaged in agricultural pursuits ; served as a captain in the Black Hawk War ; died in Fulton, January 24, 1857 ; interment in the Jameson family cemetery near Fulton.

In 1826, at the age of 16 and with little formal education, he began work at the Ely & Curtis general store in Liberty, Missouri.

* John Ford ( minister ) ( 1767 – 1826 ), American political and religious ( Methodist ) leader in South Carolina ( two terms in state legislature ) and Mississippi Territory

In February 1826, the Pennsylvania state legislature approved $ 300, 000 for the construction of a canal along the Susquehanna ’ s eastern shore to bypass rapids and shallows and make the river navigable anywhere along its route.

In 1826, empresario David G. Burnet received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature to settle 300 families.

In 1826, empresario David G. Burnet received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature to settle 300 families.

The state legislature was pressed to build a canal across Pennsylvania and thus the Main Line of Public Works was commissioned in 1826.

Protest against the prospect and the constitutionality of higher tariffs began in 1826 and 1827 with William Branch Giles, who had the Virginia legislature pass resolutions denying the power of Congress to pass protective tariffs, citing the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and James Madison's 1800 defense of them.

As a member of the legislature from 1819 to 1826, he sided with the opposition.

The North Carolina state legislature elected Burton the Governor of the state in 1824 and re-elected him in 1825 and 1826.

Ultimately, Old Court partisans gained control of both houses of the legislature, and the New Court was abolished permanently in December 1826.

Upshur was elected to a term in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1812, was Commonwealth's Attorney for Richmond ( 1816 – 1823 ), ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Congress, returned to the legislature from 1825 to 1827, was elected to the Virginia General Court in 1826, and was an influential delegate to the Virginia State Constitutional Convention of 1829 – 1830.

Supporters of the old court won control of the legislature and abolished the new court in 1826.

For a time, both courts claimed to be the court of last resort in Kentucky, but by 1826, supporters of the Old Court won control of the legislature and abolished the New Court.

In 1826, the Georgia legislature asked the John Quincy Adams administration to negotiate a removal treaty.

He studied law and became a member of the South Carolina legislature in 1826.

He was elected in regular Congressional elections to four succeeding congresses, serving in the national legislature from 4 December 1826 to 3 March 1835.

People who were opposed to the capital's location at Cahaba used this as an argument for moving the capital to Tuscaloosa, which was approved by the legislature in January 1826.

Work proceeded somewhat slowly, but on January 4, 1826, citizens petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to build a Railroad, which was then completed in short order and became operational on October 9, 1826 as the first railroad in the United States.

According to Ferdinand Bohlmann, the first naturally occurring acetylenic compound, dehydromatricaria ester, was isolated from an Artemisia species in 1826.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

Disraeli turned towards literature after his financial disaster, motivated in part by a desperate need for money, and brought out his first novel, Vivian Grey, in 1826.

The first ten volumes ( 1819 – 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 – 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.

In the first era ( 1st – 6th editions, 1768 – 1826 ), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others.

In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries – and secured a promise from the great liberator, Simón Bolívar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain – the nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, held in Panama in 1826.

An iron-age shrine in the north of Hayling Island was later developed into a Roman temple in the first century BC and was first recorded in Richard Scott's Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island published in 1826.

The Hindu Ahom Kingdom of North-east India first fell to Burmese invasion and then to British after Treaty of Yandabo in 1826.

Smith found that the 1826 letter by James Curtis cited by Dunn and others as the first known use of the term was actually written in 1846, and a 1827 diary entry by Sandford and Son ( published in a newspaper in 1859 ) was likely an editorial comment and not from the original diary.

* 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.

Polk made his first major speech on March 13, 1826, in which he said that the Electoral College should be abolished and that the President should be elected by the popular vote.

* 1826 – departs on its first voyage.

A more detailed proof was published in 1826 in the first volume of Crelle's Journal.

* 1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.

* 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U. S.

Felt, which was first introduced by Henri Pape in 1826, was a more consistent material, permitting wider dynamic ranges as hammer weights and string tension increased.

This was a step towards the first permanent photograph from nature taken with a camera obscura, in 1826.

He made the first permanent photograph from nature ( his View from the Window at Le Gras ) with a camera obscura in 1826.

The first recorded settlement in the vicinity was in 1826, and settlements were known to be in the area as early as 1824.

Although the British Army had established a base at King George Sound ( later Albany ) on the south coast of western Australia in 1826 in response to rumours that the area would be annexed by France, Perth was the first full-scale settlement by Europeans in the western third of the continent.

Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse ( 1761 – 1826 )— who was also a geographer — and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese ( 1766 – 1828 ).

The cyclic variation of the number of sunspots was first observed by Heinrich Schwabe between 1826 and 1843 and led Wolf to make systematic observations starting in 1848.

The first Thai recognition of Western power in the region was the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United Kingdom in 1826.