* 1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.

Along with Muir perhaps most influential in the modern movement is Henry David Thoreau who published Walden in 1854.

The philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes met Evans in 1851, and by 1854 they had decided to live together.

Legend of the German crown offered to Henry, Hermann Vogel ( German illustrator ) | Hermann Vogel ( 1854 – 1921 )

By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

* May 17 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general ( d. 1854 )

His siblings were Blanch ( 1846 – 1935 ), Viola ( 1848 – 1925 ), Rose ( b. 1854 ), Henry ( 1856 – 1926 ) and Eliza ( 1860 – 1941 ).

* In 1854, Steinway attended its first exhibition in the United States, which was the Metropolitan Mechanics Institute fair in Washington, D. C. Henry Steinway, Jr .' s design won 1st Prize.

A tablet unearthed in 1854 by Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh reveals Ashurbanipal as an " avenger ", seeking retribution for the humiliations the Elamites had inflicted on the Mesopotamians over the centuries:

Henry James at eleven years old with his father, Henry James, Sr. — 1854 daguerreotype by Mathew Brady

The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell ( d 1854 ), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip, Lord of the Treasury, m. Anne Augusta Wilmot-Horton ( daughter of the Governor of Ceylon d. 17 / 9 / 1843 ), m. 2 1844 Frances Byng ( daughter of Sir John Byng Earl of Staffford, d. 1846 ), m. 3.

* Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey ( 1768 – 1854 ), soldier and politician

The first recorded claims for the land in Orting were made in 1854 by William Henry Whitesell ( also the first postmaster ), Thomas Headley, Daniel Lane and Daniel Varner.

Francis and Emma had other children: Captain John Brooke Johnson ( 1823 – 1868 ) ( later Brooke Brooke ), Mary Anna Johnson ( b. 1824 ), Harriet Helena Johnson ( b. 1826 ), Charlotte Frances Johnson ( b. 1828 ), Captain ( William ) Frederic Johnson ( b. 1830 ), Emma Lucy Johnson ( b. 1832 ), Margaret Henrietta Johnson ( 1834 – 1845 ), Georgianna Brooke Johnson ( 1836 – 1854 ), James Stuart Johnson ( 1839 – 1840 ), and Henry Stuart Johnson ( b. 1841 ).

Title page of Henry David Thoreau | Henry Thoreau's memoir, Walden ( 1854 )

Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn ( ; Cockpen, Midlothian, 26 October 1779 – Bonaly, Midlothian, 26 April / 18 July 1854 ) was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure.

Also in 1854 a " rotary process " was patented by William Bemrose and Henry Howe Bemrose.

Previous owners were the Lomax family who bought the house in 1666 and who lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.

In a tablet unearthed in 1854 by Henry Austin Layard, Ashurbanipal boasts of the destruction he had wrought:

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 ).

John Selby Watson, Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1854.

* Henry Thoreau: Walden ( 1854 )

* Brewster, David ( 1854 ).

* March 5 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American inventor ( b. 1854 )

* October 16 – David Macpherson, Canadian-born American civil engineer ( b. 1854 )

* David Stark Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co. 1854 to 2004 ( 2004 ) ISBN 1-84033-323-5

The Navy purchased the original 956 acres ( 3. 9 km² ) of MINSY in 1853 and commenced shipbuilding operations on September 16, 1854 under the command of then-Commander David Farragut, who would later gain fame during the US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay, when he gave the order, " Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

* David Eugene Thompson ( 1854 – 1942 ), American diplomat

* David H. Miller and Mark J. Stegmaier, James F. Milligan: His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853 – 1854 ; His Adventurous Life on Land and Sea, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988.

The town of Milford was established in 1816 by George Reed, Marysville in 1819 by Samuel Culbertson, Richwood in 1832 by Philip Plumber, Kingsville in 1834, Somerville in 1835, Watkins and Arbelia in 1838, Newton in 1838 by David Paul, York Center in 1841, Frankfort in 1846, Unionville in 1847, Pharisburg in 1847, New California in 1853, Dover in 1854, Union Center in 1863, Broadway in 1865, Pottersburg in 1869, Peoria in 1870, Magnetic Springs in 1879, and Claibourne in 1881.

David A. Neal, Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad, followed closely on November 17, 1854 with his plat that paralleled the tracks, which reached the village that winter.

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 ;

* David Settle Reid was born in Reidsville, a two-term Democratic governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1851 to 1854, and a U. S. Senator from December 1854 to March 1859.

About 1833, Timothy S. and David Coates engaged in merchandising and lumbering, continuing until 1854, when Clark Kimball of Osceola, succeeded David.

It was one of four lighthouses built in Shetland between 1854 and 1858 which were designed by brothers David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson.

New machines based on Archer's principles were constructed by David Napier and Son Ltd ; these were initially used in October 1853 for revenue stamps and from January 1854 for postage stamps.

The first mass meeting by a group that called itself " Republican " took place July 6, 1854 in Jackson, Michigan, with David S. Walbridge presiding, and in June Edwin Hurlbut called the second on July 13, 1854 in Madison, Wisconsin.

* William Pitt Leleiohoku II ( 1854 – 1877 ), Crown Prince of Hawaii and heir apparent of King David Kalakaua

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 )