* Alexander Von Humboldt ( 1769 – 1859 ), considered the father of modern geography.

His father-in-law was a prominent Democrat in St. Louis, a factor that helped derail Grant's bid to become county engineer in 1859, while his own father was an outspoken Republican in Galena.

* William Cranch Bond ( 1789 – 1859 ), American astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond ( above )

His mother died in 1856 and his father in 1859.

for Leeds ( 1859 – 1874 ), and was knighted in 1880 ; his History of the Cotton Manufacture ( 1835 ) was long a standard authority, he also wrote a biography of his father The life of Edward Baines, late M. P.

William Harley, the father of the company's co-founder William Sylvester Harley, had been born in Victoria Street, Littleport, in 1835, before emigrating to the USA in 1859.

Zita's father had lost his throne as a result of the movement for Italian unification in 1859 when he was still a child.

His father died in 1859 and he inherited the Avondale estate.

* Elias Disney ( 1859 – 1941 ), Walt Disney's father

* Auguste Charles Louis Valentin de Morny ( 1859 – 1920 ), who succeeded his father as the 2e Duc de Morny.

Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel ( 1819 – 1904 ), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile ( 1851 – 1859 ), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III.

* Spencer ( 1795 – 1859 ) was, like his father, educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.

A year later, in 1859, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for advanced elementary education.

The rediscovery of iron ore in 1859 by Rowland Winn on the land of his father, Charles, resulted in the development of an iron and steel industry and rapid population growth.

In 1859 he succeeded his father as second Earl of Ripon, taking his seat in the House of Lords, and later that year succeeded his uncle in the more senior title of Earl de Grey, becoming known as the Earl de Grey and Ripon.

In 1859, his father, Judge Henry R. Selden, a prominent Republican attorney most noted for defending Susan B. Anthony, moved to Rochester, New York, where George briefly attended the University of Rochester before dropping out to enlist in the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, Union Army.

Francis II ascended the throne on the death of his father ( 22 May 1859 ).

* Elias Disney ( 1859 – 1941 ), Canadian businessman, father of Walt Disney

* London, 1859: Lord Braddock, Mr. Shaw ( Sebastian Shaw's great-grandfather and Cornelius Shaw's father )

He was the father of 1 ) George William Hope of Luffness ( 1808 – 1863 ), Member of Parliament for Windsor from 1859 to 1863, whose son Sir Edward Stanley Hope ( 1846 – 1921 ) served as a Lunacy Commissioner, and 2 ) the Hon.

In his early childhood ( 1859 – 1864 ), he lived in Bruges where his father was appointed Substitut Du Procureur Du Roi.

In November 1859, López was on board the war steamer Tacuari-this came under attack by British Royal Navy ships, in order to pressure his father to release a British citizen from prison.

He was also a Whig politician and succeeded his father as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1833, a post he held until 1834, and again from 1835 to 1841, from 1846 to 1852, from 1852 to 1858, from 1859 to 1866 and from 1868 to 1869.

In 1859 the family moved to Falmouth in Cornwall where it was hoped the warmer climate would benefit Tuke's father, Daniel, who had developed symptoms of tuberculosis.

In April 1859, an expedition of U. S. Corp of Topographical Engineers led by Captain James H. Simpson left Camp Floyd ( Utah ) to establish an army supply route across the Great Basin to the eastern slope of the Sierras.

In 1859, confident of gaining the presidential nomination and advised by his political ally and friend Thurlow Weed that he would be better off avoiding political gatherings where his words might be misinterpreted by one faction or another, Seward left the country for an eight-month tour of Europe that included a visit to Syria, where Ayub Beg Tarabulsy gave him several Arabian horses.

In 1859, gold was discovered along the Fraser River in British Columbia and numerous people left Josephine County to search for valuable claims there.

Gibson and Company M, Third Artillery left Fort Bragg in January 1859 to be replaced by Company D, 6th Infantry.

Brown left from his farm for the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

All of which left the " first man " and his putative descendants in the awkward position of being stripped of all historical context until Charles Darwin naturalized the Garden of Eden with the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859.

Tresillo, the habanera, and related African-based single-celled figures have long been heard in the left hand part of piano compositions by New Orleans musicians, for example — Louis Moreau Gottschalk (" Souvenirs From Havana " 1859 ), and Jelly Roll Morton (" The Crave " 1910 ).

In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted into the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater.

For unknown reasons, McCreight left Australia in 1859 and sailed first to San Francisco, and then to Victoria, British Columbia.

The consequence was that from 1859 till 1864 Lord Clarendon remained out of office, and the critical relations arising out of the Civil War in the United States were left to the guidance of Earl Russell.

When he took office in 1926, Steck became Iowa's first Democratic Senator since George W. Jones left office in 1859.

In Great Britain a recent review left a single occurrence in 1859 as the only acceptable record of this bird.

An attempt to organize a Hungarian legion during the Crimean War was stopped ; but in 1859 he entered into negotiations with Napoleon III, left England for Italy and began the organization of a Hungarian legion, which was to make a descent on the coast of Dalmatia.

It was sold at auction in November 1859, and the family left again for Pella, Iowa.

Markham and his team, which included the noted botanist Richard Spruce, left England for Peru in December 1859, arriving in Lima late in January 1860.

In 1859, at the age of 11, Albert left his brother's household to go live with a sister in Waco, Texas.

Because the land was too marshy he left the area in 1859 with much of the land unsold.

President Buchanan and his CabinetFrom left to right: Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, James Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Joseph Holt and Jeremiah S. Black, ( c. 1859 )

He never published and it was left to William Pengelly to publicise and explore his findings in 1859, years after MacEnery's death at age 43.

President Buchanan and his CabinetFrom left to right: Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, James Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Joseph Holt and Jeremiah S. Black, ( c. 1859 )

President Buchanan and his CabinetFrom left to right: Jacob Thompson, Lewis Cass, John B. Floyd, James Buchanan, Howell Cobb, Isaac Toucey, Joseph Holt and Jeremiah S. Black, ( c. 1859 )

He went to Rome in 1849, was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d ' Italie de 1859.

Five days after Downey was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor, Governor Milton Latham resigned after appointing himself ( with the support of the State Legislature ) to fill the federal Senate vacancy left by the death of David C. Broderick, killed in a duel earlier in 1859.