In his major " state of the art " review of 1855, he proposed a substantially complete and correct model for the etiology of the disease.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

The museum features a funeral practices exhibit, a military history room, an art gallery, a Civil War Display with an 1855 slave collar and a Civil War era regimental flag, a school room, and an archives room for genealogists as well as a gift shop.

Andrew William Mellon ( March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937 ) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.

* Eugène Boch, impressionist painter, art collector, lover of Vincent van Gogh ( 1855 – 1941 )

In 1855 he was appointed professor of the science of antiquity, and director of the academic art museum at Bonn, and in 1865 he was called to succeed Eduard Gerhard at Berlin.

His critical papers were collected under the titles: Portraits littéraires ( 1836-1849 ); Nouveaux portraits littéraires ( 1854 ); and his art criticisms in Etudes sur l ' école française ( 1855 ).

He produced art criticism in L ' Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise ( 1846 ); semi-historical sketches in Mlle de la Vallière et Mme de Montespan ( 1860 ) and Galerie de portraits du XVIII siècle ( 1844 ); literary criticism in Le Roi Voltaire ( 1858 ) and his famous satirical Histoire du quarante et unième fauteuil de l ' Académie française ( 1855 ); drama in his Comédiennes ( 1857 ); poetry in his Symphonie de vingt ans ( 1867 ), Cent et un sonnets ( 1873 ), etc.

* June 18-William Brymner, art teacher and painter ( b. 1855 )

He attended Leigh's art academy ( where a fellow student was Frederick Walker ) and in 1855, at the age of 15, was admitted to the Royal Academy.

In 1855 he was appointed director of the Turin art gallery.

Between 1914 and 1915, Savage studied art at the Art Association of Montreal under several instructors including William Brymner ( 1855 – 1925 ).

Elected President of the Royal Academy and knighted in 1850, he became a notable figure in the British art establishment, being appointed the first President of the Photographic Society in 1853 and, in 1855, the first Director of the National Gallery.

Among his students were the German sinologists Wilhelm Grube ( 1855 – 1908 ) and Johann Jakob Maria de Groot ( 1854 – 1921 ), the Austrian sinologist Arthur von Rosthorn ( 1862 – 1945 ), the japanologist Karl Florenz ( 1865 – 1939 ), the archaeologist Max Uhle ( 1856 – 1944 ), the tibetologist Heinrich Wenzel and the art historian Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Müller ( 1863 – 1930 ).

Among his own works are several treatises on occidental art: a Compendium on the Architecture of the Christian Middle Ages ( 1854 ), a Handbook on Art History ( 1855 ), a History of Fine Arts in the 19th Century ( 1858 ), Iconographical Studies ( 1860 ), a work on Contemporary Fine Arts ( 1875 ), books on Raphael and Michelangelo ( 1878 ) and ( posthumously ) a book on Albrecht Dürer ( 1892 ).

In 1855, a critic described the painting's vibrant handling as " Less finished than a painting, more finished than a sketch, The Murder of the Bishop of Liège was left by the painter at that supreme moment when one more stroke of the brush would have ruined everything ".

Georgi's mother, Maria Feodorovna, was a distant relative of the famous literary critic Vissarion Belinsky and was married to Valentin in 1855, following the death of his first wife.

On her return from Cuba in 1855, when she played Lucrezia Borgia in the opera, the New York Times called her " one of the few worth welcoming back again "; but critic Richard Grant White wrote that her voice had deteriorated into " a bewildered shriek ".

He began as a drama critic on the Pays newspaper in 1851, and in 1855 he succeeded Théophile Gautier on the Presse.

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer ( d. 1933 )

Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

E. W. Gilbert's version ( 1958 ) of John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow's 1855 map of the Soho cholera outbreak showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854 While the basic elements of topography and theme existed previously in cartography, the John Snow map was unique, using cartographic methods not only to depict but also to analyze clusters of geographically dependent phenomena.

On 29 January 1855, John Arthur Roebuck introduced a motion for the appointment of a select committee to enquire into the conduct of the war.

* John Brown ( fugitive slave ) ( c. 1810 – 1876 ), writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown published in London, UK 1855

In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown University, where he joined Theta Delta Chi.

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.

* 1926 – John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor ( b. 1855 )

* 1789 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist ( d. 1855 )

* John Stockdale Rhea ( 1855 – 1924 ), U. S. Congressman from Kentucky

* October 31 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina ( b. 1855 )

* October 8 – William John Swainson an English naturalist and artist ( d. 1855 )

Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist John Gregg Fee ( 1816 – 1901 ), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century.

* Sir John Young ( 1807 – 1876 ) 1855 – 1859

( 1855, 3 volumes, editor John Murray, republished 2003 by Thoemmes Press ).

This was supplanted by German-born John Augustus Roebling's Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge in 1855.

John Caldwell Calhoun, Jr. ( 1823 – 1855 ), 8.

The Tribune absorbed three other Chicago publications under the new editors: the Free West in 1855, the Democratic Press in 1858, and the Chicago Democrat in 1861, whose editor, John Wentworth, left his position to become Chicago Mayor.

* Callista ( novel ), 1855 novel by John Henry Newman

* John Anderson ( missionary ) ( 1805 – 1855 ), Scottish missionary

* John Anderson ( Newfoundland politician ) ( 1855 – 1930 ), Newfoundland businessman and politician