After 1854 extreme clippers were replaced in American shipbuilding yards by medium clippers.

* 1934 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell ( b. 1854 )

* 1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader ( d. 1854 )

* 1854 – Bill Tilghman, American police officer ( d. 1924 )

* 1854 – George Eastman, American businessman and inventor of Roll film, founded the Eastman Kodak Company ( d. 1932 )

* 1854 – John Rahm, American golfer ( d. 1935 )

The word " Kerosene " was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854, and for several years, only the North American Gas Light Company and the Downer Company ( to which Gesner had granted the right ) were allowed to call their lamp oil " Kerosene " in the United States.

Category: 1854 in American politics

* Richmond Mayo-Smith ( 1854 – 1901 ), American economist

* 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.

* 1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer ( d. 1932 )

* 1854 – George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer ( d. 1931 )

* 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.

* 1854 – C. W. Post, American entrepreneur ( d. 1914 )

The Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) during the Crimean War and the Siege of Petersburg ( 1864 – 1865 ) during the American Civil War showed that modern citadels, when improved by improvised defences, could still resist an enemy for many months.

* 1854 – Charles Tatham, American fencer ( d. 1939 )

* 1766 – Samuel Wilson, American meat-packer, namesake of Uncle Sam ( d. 1854 )

Thomas Riley Marshall ( March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925 ) was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States ( 1913 – 1921 ) under Woodrow Wilson.

** John Riley Banister, American policeman and cowboy ( b. 1854 )

Scripps, American newspaper publisher ( b. 1854 )

* July 3 – William Crawford Gorgas, American Army surgeon ( b. 1854 )

* Bleeding Kansas ( 1854 – 59 ): battles erupt in Kansas Territory between proslavery and " Free-State " settlers, directly precipitating the American Civil War.

* March 6 – John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer ( The Stars and Stripes Forever ) ( b. 1854 )

* March 14 – George Eastman, American inventor ( Kodak ) ( b. 1854 )

* February 18 – Dave Rudabaugh, American outlaw and gunfighter ( b. 1854 )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )

* March 1 – Charles Webster Leadbeater, English author and Theosophist ( b. 1854 )

Although almost completely unknown today, during the decade between 1844 and 1854 he was the most widely-read author in the United States.

* Max Bernstein ( 1854 – 1925 ), German art and theatre critic and author

* J. Lloyd Williams ( 1854 – 1945 ), botanist, author, and musician

* August 15-Heinrich Köselitz, author and composer ( b. 1854 )

* Emile Joseph Dillon ( 1854 – 1933 ), linguist, author and journalist.

His Jashar ( 1854 ), written in Latin as an appeal to the learned world, and especially to German theologians, was an attempt to reconstitute the lost biblical book of Jashar from the remains of old songs and historical records, which, according to the author, are incorporated in the existing text of the Old Testament.

Charles Webster Leadbeater ( 16 February 1854 – 1 March 1934 ) was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church.

John Wilson of Ellerey FRSE ( 18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854 ) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Henry David Thoreau, a North American naturalist and author, is often considered to have made the classic secular statement advocating a life of simple and sustainable living in his book Walden ( 1854 ).

He was the author of numerous mathematical and physical treatises on such subjects as algebraic geometry ( 1823 ), the differential and integral calculus ( 1825 ), the steam engine ( 1828 ), besides hand-books on various departments of natural philosophy ( 1854 – 1856 ); but it is as the editor of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia ( 1830 – 1844 ) that he is best remembered.

* George Lippard, 19th-century novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, labor organizer, most widely read author in the United States, 1844 – 1854

Blakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle ( 1839 ), an edition of Herodotus ( 1852 – 1854 ) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in Algeria ( 1859 ).

The term also pertains to such earlier figures as the nineteenth century writers Frederick Denison Maurice ( The Kingdom of Christ, 1838 ), Charles Kingsley ( The Water-Babies, 1863 ), Thomas Hughes ( Tom Brown's Schooldays, 1857 ), Frederick James Furnivall ( co-creator of the Oxford English Dictionary ), Adin Ballou ( Practical Christian Socialism, 1854 ), and Francis Bellamy ( a Baptist minister and the author of the United States ' Pledge of Allegiance ).

Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson CB ( 1854 – 1903 ) was a British soldier and military author.

George Stanley Faber ( 25 October 1773 – 27 January 1854 ) ( often written G. S. Faber ) was an Anglican theologian and prolific author.

Bunbury was the author of several historical works of value, the most notable being his military memoirs Narratives of Some Passages in the Great War with France, first published in 1854.

It was only in 1854 that his first volume of verse was printed, and that was prepared by Ivan Turgenev and others without any help from the author.

The celebrated English author George Borrow wrote Wild Wales ( 1854 ), which includes a lively, humorous account of his visit to Pontarfynach.

Johann Peter Eckermann ( September 21, 1792 – December 3, 1854 ), German poet and author, is best known for his work Conversations with Goethe, the fruit of his association with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last years of Goethe's life.

* W. G. Collingwood, ( 1854 – 1932 ) author, artist and antiquarian

A letter written by Mill in 1854 suggests Taylor was reluctant to be described as joint author of Mill's books and articles.

* Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn ( 1779 – 1854 ), Scottish judge and author