The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

* 1855 Elizabeth and George W. Scott laid out the town of Burleson, named for her father.

In the spring of 1855 a party of pro-slavery men from Fort Scott formed a town company and laid out a town on the high land east of the Neosho River, south of the mouth of Elm Creek.

File: Lichfield Cathedral nave. jpg | Lichfield Cathedral, as restored and with fittings by Scott ( 1855 – 61 ) & ( 1877 – 81 )

In 1855, he settled at the present day junction of County Road 34 and Judicial Road near the Scott County line, just southeast of old downtown Savage.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898 ) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean ( 1855 – 91 ) of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster ( 1846 – 55 ) of Westminster School ( where a house is now named after him ), author of A History of Rome ( 1857 ), and co-author ( with Robert Scott ) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek.

He was United States Solicitor in the Court of Claims ( 1855 – 58 ) and was associated with George T. Curtis as counsel for the plaintiff in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.

* William Winfield Scott ( 1855 – 1935 ), American writer

Frederick Scott Archer – by Robert Cade ( photographer ) | Robert Cade c. 1855

The area was first surveyed in 1855 and was described as, " the best soil on the island ... well watered, with a mild climate " by surveyor James Scott, for whom the town is named.

According to Trevor's confession the Gloria Scott left Falmouth " thirty years ago " and precisely in 1855, but that would set Holmes's enquiry in 1885 and not in his college years, as he told Watson.

But while Andrew Carnegie found a father-figure ( in Tom Scott, a family friend ) after the death of Will Carnegie in 1855, Thomas did not and spent most of his life emulating his brother.

It wasn't until April 1855, recalls Scott, that " the first train crossed thr bridge over the Rideau River to the station at Sussex Street ".

* Albert Scott White ( 1855 –?

The various owners and the dates associated with the site include: Benjamin Thornton ( 1848 – 1854 ), William H. Macfarland ( 1854 – 1855 ), Alfred V. Scott ( 1855 – 1857 ), Thomas J. Carson and Frank Carson ( 1857 – 1881 ), Louis F. Detrick and William L. Bradley ( 1881 – 1900 ) and Charles King Lennig ( 1900 ).

Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

By the time the building opened early in 1855, Desaga had made fifty of the burners for Bunsen's students.

In 1855, the government of France made him an Officier de la Légion d ' honneur.

The arrival of the railways in 1855 quickly made it redundant, as trains could carry passengers and goods far more rapidly and did not have to shut down with the arrival of winter, which made the canal impassable for five months of the year.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

* 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.

In 1855, the decision was made to tear it down and replace it with the " wedding-cake style " cast-iron dome that stands today.

Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts patented the calliope on October 9, 1855, although it is based on previously known concepts, as in 1832, a musical instrument designer made a " steam trumpet " later to be known as a train whistle.

Starting in 1855, many of the poorer Mormon travelers made the trek with hand built handcarts and fewer wagons.

This passage was considerably speeded up and made safer in 1855 when the Panama Railroad was completed at terrible cost in money and life across the Isthmus and the treacherous, disease ridden trip could be done in less than a day.

In France, where English architecture rarely made much impression, the influence of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the church of Sainte-Geneviève ( now the Panthéon ); begun in 1757, it rises to a drum and dome similar to St Paul's, and there are other versions inspired by Wren's dome, from St Isaac's ( 1840 – 42 ) in St Petersburg to the US Capitol at Washington, D. C. ( 1855 – 65 ).

In a case report published in 1855 he stated a general life cycle for insects and made many assumptions about their mating habits.

Bottom, the corresponding adjustable loop made using the hitch above it, left to right: " adjustable hitch "(# 1800, # 1856 ), " midshipman's hitch "(# 1855 ), " adjustable hitch " with the concluding hitch reversed.

The last Indian raid into the area was made by the Kickapoo in 1855.

In February 1855 the British government recognized Peto for his wartime services ; he was made a Baronet, of Somerleyton Hall in the County of Suffolk.

The first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, by Alexander Parkes, who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his firm went bankrupt due to scale-up costs.

Samuel G. Reed and Ruben S. Wade made claim to the land on January 7, 1855.

Originally a much larger town, rectangular in shape ( except for a small extension southward taking up part of the modern area of Knight's Corner ) and extending eastward to the top of Prescott Hill ( where Daniel Shays once lived ), the land east of the West Branch of the Swift River was annexed by the town of Prescott in the latter half of the nineteenth centuries ( maps made in 1855 and 1862 both show this land still belonging to Pelham ).

Although the Fall River valley had been known to settlers for a number of years, no attempt was made toward its settlement until 1855.

The first land entries in this area were made by Joshua Terry in 1853, by Green Bird in 1854, and by Isaiah Jester in 1855.

The area now known as Forest Hills was named for the late 19th century home of David D. Davies that once stood as part of an estate, which Davies formed in 1855 with, that made up what is now a large part of the village.

Between 1855 and 1860, the arrival of pioneers from Iceland made Spanish Fork into the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States.

In 1855, he accompanied R. McAndrew on a dredging excursion from the Shetland Islands to Norway and beyond the Arctic Circle ; and subsequently made other cruises to Greenland and to the coast of Spain.

Having exhausted the possible alternatives, the Queen invited Palmerston to Buckingham Palace on 4 February 1855 to form a government.

The fact that nitrocellulose is soluble in organic solvents such as ether and acetone made it possible for Georges Audemars to develop the first " artificial silk " in about 1855, but his method was impractical for commercial use.

In 1855, free love advocate Mary Gove Nichols ( 1810 – 1884 ) described marriage as the " annihilation of woman ," explaining that women were considered to be men's property in law and public sentiment, making it possible for tyrannical men to deprive their wives of all freedom.

The bridge has undergone much repair and renovation work, including rebuilding of seven spans in the long arm and lowering of the roadway by changing the arches from an almost semi-circular to elliptical form ( 1848 – 1855 ), lowering of sidewalks and faces of the piers, spandrels, cornices and replacing crumbled corbels as closely to the originals as possible.

His business activity allowed Kronecker a comfortable financial situation, which made it possible for him to go back to Berlin in 1855 to pursue mathematics as a private scholar.

The method of color photography used by Prokudin-Gorsky was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855 and demonstrated in 1861, but good results were not possible with the photographic materials available at that time.

In 1855 he brought before the Geological Society of London his paper On the possible Extension of the Coal-Measures beneath the South-Eastern part of England, in which he pointed out on well-considered theoretical grounds the likelihood of coal measures being some day reached in that area.

In 1855 Charles Bright finished a survey of the Irish coast and came to the conclusion that Valentia Island, on the south coast of Ireland, was best possible location and was also the closest point to America.