In the California Wilderness in May 1853, a crusty old miner, Ben Rumson, is conducting a makeshift funeral for a friend.

He was appointed United States District Attorney for Delaware from 1853 until 1854 and then practiced law in Philadelphia with his friend, William Shippen, from 1854 until 1858, before returning permanently to his father ’ s practice in Wilmington.

In 1853, along with his lifelong friend, artist and art educator George Wallis ( 1811 – 1891 ), he was appointed a British commissioner for the New-York International Exhibition.

On the wave of his growing popularity, Toombs won a seat to the United States House of Representatives ( 1844 – 1853 ), and joined his close friend and fellow representative Alexander H. Stephens from Crawfordville, Georgia.

Balakirev left the Alexandrovsky Institute in 1853 and entered the University of Kazan as a mathematics student, along with his friend P. D.

Stone was asked to speak at and promote Temperance meetings because Stanton and Anthony were very interested in alcohol reform, and her best friend " Nettie " Brown, newly appointed pastor in the spring of 1853, was preaching against alcohol abuse.

Doc Maynard was known as a friend to the Indians ; when Washington became a territory in 1853 Doc Maynard was appointed as the man in charge of Indian relations.

* Benjamin Pierce ( April 13, 1841-January 16, 1853 )-Two months before Pierce's inauguration as president, a tragedy occurred as the family traveled by train from Andover, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, where they had planned to attend the funeral of a family friend.

But the librettist became Verdi's lifelong friend and collaborator-" someone Verdi loved ", following Salvadore Cammarano as Verdi's main mid-career librettist and writing the libretti for Verdi's operas Ernani ( 1844 ), I due Foscari ( 1844 ), Attila ( 1846 ), Macbeth ( 1847 ), Il Corsaro ( 1848 ), Stiffelio ( 1850 ), Rigoletto ( 1851 ), La traviata ( 1853 ) Simon Boccanegra ( 1857 ), and La forza del destino ( 1862 ).

Mount Stuart was given its name by George B. McClellan on August 26, 1853, in honor of his oldest and best friend, " the late Capt.

Encouraged by his friend, the poet Max Waldau ( 1822 – 1855 ), he published Hafis in Hellas ( Hamburg, 1853 ) and Koran der Liebe ( Hamburg, 1855 ) containing with their glowing descriptions of the East love poetry of a realistic and high order.

She then studied in Boston and practiced modeling at home until November 1852, when, with her father and her friend Charlotte Cushman, she went to Rome, where from 1853 to 1860 she was the pupil of the English sculptor John Gibson.

Charles Anthon ( 1853 ) describes her thus: " Erinna ( Ήριννα ) friend & contemporary of Sappho ( about 612 BC ) died at 19, left behind her poems which were thought worthy to rank with those of Homer.

In 1853 Rieger married Marie Palacká, the daughter of his close friend and political associate from the assembly, František Palacký.

In his Biographia Literaria, Coleridge alludes to Cottle as ‘ a friend from whom I never received any advice that was not wise, or a remonstrance that was not gentle and affectionate .’ Cottle died at Fairfield House, Bristol, 7 June 1853.

* 1797 – Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian statesman and general ( d. 1853 )

According to the San Francisco Herald, in a series of articles run in 1853, they give this honor to Captain Joseph R. Walker, who in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River to a point where it joined the Virgin River and continued east into Arizona, traveling along the Grand Canyon and making short exploratory side trips along the way.

In 1853 he married Marie Henriette, daughter of the Austrian archduke Joseph, in Brussels on August 22, 1853.

It was not until 1853 that a new Roman Catholic bishop was installed in the St. Joseph kerk.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

Following a Native American path to the mission, the European-American Joseph W. Clapp came to the area in 1853, where he built the first house of present-day St. Louis.

Clitherall was founded in 1864 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutlerite ), a small Latter Day Saint faction started in 1853 by Alpheus Cutler, a former associate of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the original Latter Day Saint church in 1830.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

Marcus Peck ; 1831, William F. Averill ; 1832, Eleazer Flint ; 1833, Carpenter G. Conklin ; 1834, William L. Stewart ; 1835, Marcus Peck ; 1836, William F. Averill, Eleazer Flint ; 1837, William F. Averill ; 1838, Jacob Hegeman ; 1839, Marcus Peck, John Wood ; 1840, Jacob Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1841, Rescome H. Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1842, George Carnryck ; 1843, Marcus Peck ; 1844, Jacob Wheeler, Eleazer Wooster ; 1845, Eleazer Wooster ; 1846, George Carnryck ; 1847, Marcus Peck ; 1848, Jacob Wheeler, Willard Foster, Joseph Bly ; 1849, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1851, B. F. Foster, Adam Mott ; 1852, Jacob Boyce ; 1853, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1854, Lewis Sliter, William S. Stewart ; 1855, William Moul, John L. Lape, Thomas Brewer ; 1856, Jacob Wheeler ; 1857, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1858, William M. Horton ;: 859, Joel B. Peck, William Moul ; 1860, S. D. Seymour, Joshua Coons ; 1862, George Sliter ; 1863, William Moul ; 1864, B.

In 1853, Joel Parkhurst acquired the property, which he continued to own until 1873, when he sold it to Joseph Cornelius.

In 1853, the area was settled by Joseph Foster, a Canadian pioneer who had traveled to the northwest from Wisconsin.

During 1853 – 54 he worked on a major orchestral piece, the Triumphal Symphony, composed to commemorate the wedding of Emperor Franz Joseph.

Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau ( 14 July 1816, Ville-d ' Avray, Hauts-de-Seine – 13 October 1882, Turin ) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races ( 1853 – 1855 ).

In 1853, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, the domineering mother of 23-year-old Emperor Francis Joseph, preferring to have a niece as a daughter-in-law rather than a stranger, arranged a marriage between her son and her sister Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helene.

In 1853, Archbishop John Joseph Hughes announced his intention to erect a new cathedral to replace the Old Saint Patrick's Cathedral in downtown Manhattan.

As stated by Joseph Whitworth in his influential report on industry dated from 1853, literacy rates were higher in the United States.

Jacques Collin de Plancy was the father of Victor Emile Marie Joseph Collin de Plancy ( 1853 – 1924 ) who for nearly a decade starting in 1884 served as French Minister to Korea and whose collected art works and books became part of the core of the Korean collections of the French Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Guimet in Paris.

Joseph Joachim ( 1853 ) by Adolph Menzel.

* The F-A-E Sonata, a sonata for violin and piano, written in 1853 as a gift for the violinist Joseph Joachim.

* Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O. P., ( 1853 – 1884 )

# Joseph Alemany, O. P., ( 1850 – 1853 )

* Stevenson, Joseph The Church Historians of England, volume 4, part 1 ( London, 1853 – 58 ) ( translation of Richard of Hexham-see link below )

Joseph Johnson reviewed the evidence and pardoned Mosby on December 23, 1853.

A complete German translation, edited by Dr Moritz Posselt ( Tagebuch des Generals Patrick Gordon ) was published, the first volume at Moscow in 1849, the second at St Petersburg in 1851, and the third at St Petersburg in 1853 ; and Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries ( 1635 – 1699 ), was printed, under the editorship of Joseph Robertson, for the Spalding Club, at Aberdeen, Scotland, 1859.

* Andoche Alfred Michel Junot, 3rd Duc d ' Abrantes ( Ciudad Rodrigo, 25 November 1810 – killed in action at Brescia, 19 July 1859 ), married firstly on 2 April 1845 Marie Céline Elise Lepic ( 9 October 1824 – 6 June 1847 ), and married secondly on 10 January 1853 Marie Louise Léonie Lepic ( 19 July 1829 – 17 August 1868 ), both sisters, daughters of Joachim Lepic, 1st Baron Lepic, and wife Anne-Marguerite Pasquier, and had:

* Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti ( 1791 – 1853 )

* Joachim Labrouche, born 1769 in Hendaye died 1853 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, French political figure ;

Thirty-four years earlier, Brahms had been involved in a collaborative work using the F-A-E motif in tribute to Joachim: the F-A-E Sonata of 1853.

The violinist Joseph Joachim attended Waitz's lectures in 1853.

* 1853, 22 November, Bremen – Joseph Joachim ( soloist ); Berlioz ( conductor )