Early in January, 1844 he had a conference with Henry and William in New Orleans, and upon learning of Gorham's intention, Henry remonstrated calmly but firmly with his brother.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while being held on charges of treason.

* 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

He was a brother of poet Ernest Myers ( 1844 – 1921 ) and of Dr. Arthur Thomas Myers ( 1851 – 1894 ).

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

After the deaths of both Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821, and of his eldest brother Joseph in 1844, Louis was seen by the Bonapartists as the rightful Emperor of the French, although Louis took little action himself to advance the claim.

Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte ( 7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844 ) was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily ( 1806 – 1808 ), and later King of Spain ( 1808 – 1813, as José I ).

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), Napoleon's elder brother.

While incarcerated in the Carthage Jail in June 1844, Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was assassinated by a mob along with his brother Hyrum Smith.

* Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), King of Naples and Sicily, King of Spain and the Indies and brother to Napoleon I of France.

* Frederick Styles Agate, ( 1803 – 1844 ), resident of Sparta, brother of Alfred Agate, noted portraitist and painter

The city was founded amidst the Great Black Swamp in 1844 on the Miami and Erie Canal by the German-born Reverend John Otto Bredeick and his brother Ferdinand Bredeick, both from Verl, Germany.

In 1844 he was commissioned into his father ’ s regiment in the Royal Prussian Army, possibly the Garde-Fusilier Regiment ( in which his brother, Benno Waldemar von Tempsky was a second lieutenant ).

In 1844, Taylor was with church founder Joseph Smith, Jr., his brother Hyrum Smith, and fellow LDS leader Willard Richards in the Carthage, Illinois jail when the Smiths were killed by a mob.

His brother, Henry Greville ( 1801 – 1872 ), attaché to the British embassy in Paris from 1834 to 1844, also kept a diary, of which part was published by Viscountess Enfield, Leaves from The Diary of Henry Greville ( London, 1883 – 1884 ).

Morgan grew up on the farm outside of Lexington and attended Transylvania College for two years, but was suspended in 1844 for dueling with a fraternity brother.

Born Melanie Hamilton around 1844, she and her brother Charles Hamilton are among the last members left of the relatively affluent Hamilton family.

* Samuel H. Smith ( Latter Day Saints ) ( 1808 – 1844 ), American Mormon ; Book of Mormon witness, missionary, and brother of Joseph Smith, Jr.

* 1844: Memoirs of her brother, George Beecher

# Luisa Carlotta ( 1804 – 1844 ) married her mother's younger brother Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain.

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

Henry John Heinz ( October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919 ) was an American businessman of German descent who founded the H. J. Heinz Company.

His father Henry Nottidge Moseley ( 1844 – 91 ), who died when Henry Moseley was quite young, was a biologist and also a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford, who had been a member of the Challenger Expedition.

* 1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian ( b. 1844 )

Polk was the surprise ( dark horse ) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.

Polk's Whig opponent in the 1844 presidential election was Henry Clay of Kentucky.

The children were: Jenny Caroline ( m. Longuet ; 1844 – 83 ); Jenny Laura ( m. Lafargue ; 1845 – 1911 ); Edgar ( 1847 – 1855 ); Henry Edward Guy (" Guido "; 1849 – 1850 ); Jenny Eveline Frances (" Franziska "; 1851 – 52 ); Jenny Julia Eleanor ( 1855 – 98 ) and one more who died before being named ( July 1857 ).

* 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English statesman ( d. 1844 )

* 1844 – Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer ( d. 1916 )

An impressive demonstration occurred on May 1, 1844, when news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U. S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.

By 1844, the Whigs began their recovery by nominating Henry Clay, who lost to Democrat James K. Polk in a closely contested race, with Polk's policy of western expansion ( particularly the annexation of Texas ) and free trade triumphing over Clay's protectionism and caution over the Texas question.

* May 14 – Henry John Heinz, American businessman ( b. 1844 )

* October 21 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer and inventor ( b. 1844 )

* July 7 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian ( b. 1844 )

* May 30 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1844 )

* December 4 – U. S. presidential election, 1844: James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay.

In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.

The incumbent President in 1844 was John Tyler, who had ascended to the office of President upon the death of William Henry Harrison.

His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen ( 1787 – 1862 ), was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U. S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.

" Henry Clay and the Election of 1844: the Limits of a Rhetoric of Compromise " Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2003 6 ( 1 ): 79 – 96.

The victory of James K. Polk ( Democrat ) over Henry Clay ( Whig ) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the southern Whigs by surprise.