* 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organizer ( d. 1930 )

* 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier ( d. 1913 )

* 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary ( d. 1837 )

* 1837 – Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut ( d. 1922 )

* 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist ( d. 1899 )

English gold coins intended for circulation from 1526 into the 1930s were typically a standard 22k alloy called crown gold, for hardness ( American gold coins for circulation after 1837 contained the slightly lower amount of 0. 900 fine gold, or 21. 6 kt ).

The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in 1837 and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.

* 1777 – Robert Clark, American politician ( d. 1837 )

* 1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player ( d. 1884 )

* 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral ( b. 1837 )

* 1837 – William Dean Howells, American writer, historian and politician ( d. 1920 )

* 1837 – Tony Pastor, American impresario and theater owner ( d. 1908 )

* Micah Williams ( 1782 – 1837 ), American painter

* 1802 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist ( d. 1837 )

* 1837 – John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor ( d. 1920 )

It was the most popular American book of its time ; by 1837 it had sold 15 million copies, and some 60 million by 1890 — reaching the majority of young students in the nation's first century.

* 1837 – James T. Rapier, American politician ( d. 1883 )

* 1837 – Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer ( d. 1863 )

* 1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist ( d. 1902 )

On March 3, 1837, US President Andrew Jackson appointed Alcée La Branche American chargé d ' affaires to the Republic of Texas, thus officially recognizing Texas as an independent republic.

Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's " Intellectual Declaration of Independence ".

In 1837, American artist-turned inventor Samuel F. B. Morse conducted the first successful experiment with an electrical recording telegraph.

* August 26 – Tony Pastor, American theater impressario ( b. 1837 )

* March 31 – J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker ( b. 1837 )

* May 1 – Lewis Waterman, American inventor and businessman ( born 1837 )

* John Cuthbert Hedley ( 1837 – 1915 )

* John Young ( merchant ) ( 1773 – 1837 ), Scottish merchant in Nova Scotia

* 1782 – John Field, Irish composer ( d. 1837 )

* John Brown ( Kentucky ) ( 1757 – 1837 ), U. S. representative ( VA, 1789 – 1792 ) and U. S. senator ( KY, 1793 – 1805 ); member of Continental Congress from Virginia

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

In 1837 John Deere introduced the first steel plough ; it was so much stronger than iron designs that it was able to work the soil in areas of the US that had previously been considered unsuitable for farming.

Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837.

* 1753 – John Soane, English architect ( d. 1837 )

In March 1837, ornithologist John Gould announced that Darwin's Rhea was a separate species from the previously described rhea ( though their territories overlapped ), that mockingbirds collected on the Galápagos Islands represented three separate species each unique to a particular island, and that several distinct birds from those islands were all classified as finches.

The party held a conference in September 1837 to discuss its situation ; one delegate was former President John Quincy Adams.

First made at 60 Broad Street, Worcester, England, by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, the Lea & Perrins brand was commercialised in 1837 and has been produced in the current Midlands Road factory in Worcester since 16 October 1897.

* July 26 – John Field, Irish composer ( d. 1837 )

* March 29 – John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist ( born 1837 )

* September 10 – John Soane, British architect ( d. 1837 )

" Morgan, John Pierpont, ( April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913 )," in Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 7 ( 1934 )

The tune again was possibly based on the old melody of " Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself ", composed by John Field ( 1782 – 1837 ) sometime before 1812.

# Col. John Herschel ( 1837 – 1921 ), FRS, FRAS, surveyor

* The Sherman Letters: Correspondence Between General Sherman and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, edited by Rachel Sherman Thorndike ( New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1894 ) – edited letters to his brother, Senator John Sherman, from 1837 to 1891.

* Calhoun, John C. Slavery a Positive Good, speech on the Senate floor, February 6, 1837.

*" Correspondence Addressed to John C. Calhoun, 1837 – 1849 ," Chauncey S. Boucher and Robert P. Brooks, eds., Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1929.

In December 1837, the Congress passed the Patton Resolutions, introduced by John M. Patton of Virginia.

* 1837 – John Deere invents steel plough