Gilmer County was formed in 1845 from parts of Lewis and Kanawha Counties, and named for Thomas Walker Gilmer, Governor of Virginia from 1840 to 1841.

* T. B. Walker ( 1840 – 1928 )

* David Davis Walker ( 1840 – 1918 ), St. Louis merchant, a first cousin of Justice Davis

When La Bourdonnais died penniless in 1840, George Walker arranged to have him buried in London's Kensal Green Cemetery, near where his old rival McDonnell is buried.

* George Walker Weld ( 1840 – 1905 ): philanthropist

* June 4-Frederick Walker, social realist painter ( b. 1840 )

The entrance to the harbour became blocked in 1839, and a further report was prepared by John Wright and James Walker in 1840.

* T. B. Walker ( Thomas Barlow Walker, 1840 – 1928 ), American timber tycoon and art collector

* T. B. Walker ( 1840 – 1928 ), Minneapolis businessman who founded the Walker Art Center

* Francis Amasa Walker ( 1840 – 1897 ), U. S. economist

Francis Amasa Walker ( July 2, 1840 – January 5, 1897 ) was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army.

Walker married Exene Evelyn Stoughton on August 16, 1865 ( born October 11, 1840 ).

* 1840 Mrs William Walker

In 1840, he married the former Eugenia Irwin Walker.

It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker ( 1840 – 1875 ).

In 1840 Walker married Mary Elizabeth Ford.

In the years from 1832 to 1840 Haliday collected insects in many parts of England, most often with Francis Walker and John Curtis at Darent, Southgate and other parts of Southern England. And with one or both of these lifelong friends, who shared his passion for picturesque scenery, he made collecting excursions to the Western Isles, Skye the Isle of Bute and other parts of Scotland ( 1834 ), South and West Ireland ( 1835 ) the Lake district ( 1836 ) and North Wales ( 1837 ).

John A. Lee's Shining with the Shiner ( 1944 ) tells amusing tales about New Zealand folk hero Ned Slattery ( 1840 – 1927 ) surviving by his wits and beating the Protestant work ethic.

" Mainline Protestant churches were slow to take root, in fact no churches at all were built in Demopolis until 1840.

Sir John Stainer ( 6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901 ) was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today ( with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in many Protestant churches of the former British Empire ), was very popular during his lifetime.

Upon his death in 1840, he was succeeded in his peerage titles by his nephew, George Drummond, who had embraced the Protestant faith.

He was instrumental in the merger of the Anglican Central Committee and the Continental society in 1840 to form the Foreign Aid Society which supported evangelical Protestant ministry on the continent of Europe.

* 1840 – Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch missionary and bishop ( d. 1900 )

The first known overnight stay on Whidbey Island by a non-native American was made on 26 May 1840 by a Catholic missionary during travel across Puget Sound.

In 1840, while continuing his medical studies in London, Livingstone met LMS missionary Robert Moffat, on leave from Kuruman, a missionary outpost in South Africa, north of the Orange River.

According to Bancroft, " The population of San Juan Capistrano in 1834 had decreased to 861 souls, and in 1840 it was probably less than 500 with less than 100 at the pueblo proper ; while in its crops San Juan ( Capistrano ) showed a larger deterioration than any other ( missionary ) establishment.

Steinhauer's missionary work had actually begun 15 years earlier in 1840 when he was assigned to Lac La Pluie to assist in translating, teaching and interpreting the Ojibwa and Cree languages.

David Belden Lyman ( 1803 – 1868 ), missionary to Hawaii, was one of many in nineteenth-century America that named their son after David Brainerd ( David Brainerd Lyman, 1833 – 36, and another David Brainerd Lyman, 1840 – 1914 ).

Three flags were proposed, all designed by the missionary Henry Williams, who was to play a major role in the translation of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.

* John Campbell ( missionary ) ( 1766 – 1840 ), Scottish missionary in South Africa

* Lyman Jewett 1840, Baptist missionary who translated the Bible into Telugu

Among these foreigners were Dr Albert Agassiz ( 1840 – 1910 ), distant cousin of the famous Swiss / American scientist Louis Agassiz, and Karl Völkner, a German missionary who had gone over to the Anglican Church.

* David Hill ( missionary ) ( 1840 – 1896 ), Wesleyan Methodist missionary to China

His successor, Bishop Pallegoix ( 1840 – 62 ), author of " Déscription du royaume Thai ou Siam " and " Dictionnaire siamois-latin-français-anglais " ( 30, 000 words ), was one of the most distinguished vicars Apostolic of Siam, the best Siamese scholar, and a missionary among the Laotines.

After sending pioneers to start his farming settlement he sent a Wesleyan missionary to join them in May 1840, James Watkin, the first in the South Island.

This honor is given only to persons whose contributions to the development of the state of Indiana were made by 1840, the year that Guerin began her missionary activities with five other sisters in the area of education and care of the sick.

David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary, had been engaged since 1840 in work north of the Orange River.

Joseph Sadoc Alemany ( 3 July 1814 – 14 April 1888 ), missionary to California, completed his licentiate in sacred theology at the Angelicum in 1840.

Charlotte Digges " Lottie " Moon ( December 12, 1840 – December 24, 1912 ) was a Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly forty years ( 1873 – 1912 ) living and working in China.

He was much attached to the Roman Catholic faith of his childhood and presented a house for a chapel to Father Lucien Galtier, the first resident missionary in Minnesota ( 1840 ).

Famous LMS missionaries included Robert Morrison ( missionary ) ( 1782-1834 ) who went to China in 1807, John Abbs ( 1810-1888 ) who went to Travancore, India in 1837, the sinologist James Legge ( 1815-1897 ), and David Livingstone ( 1813 – 1873 ) who went to South Africa in 1840.

The missionary collections of the denomination were given to the London Missionary Society from 1798 to 1840, when a Connectional Society was formed ; and no better instances of missionary enterprise are known than those of the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, Lushai Hills ( Mizoram ) and the Plains of Sylhet in northern India.