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In 1860, the U. S. Post Office incorporated the services of the Pony Express to get mail to and from San Francisco, an important undertaking with the outbreak of the Civil War, as a communication link between Union forces and San Francisco and the West Coast was badly needed.
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* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )
The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.
The only recorded description of an active jaguar den with breeding adults and kittens in the U. S. was in the Tehachapi Mountains of California prior to 1860.
With the creation of the United States Lighthouse Board in 1852, all U. S. lighthouses received Fresnel lenses by 1860.
According to the 1860 U. S. census, 393, 975 individuals, representing 8 % of all US families, owned 3, 950, 528 slaves.
To supplement his income from his medical practice, Mudd became a small scale tobacco grower, using five slaves according to the 1860 U. S. Slave Census .< ref >
" He was not listed in the 1860 Federal U. S. census at the following address ( though members of his family were ):
* December 31 – Boies Penrose, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ( born 1860 )
He pointed to Canada's regional politics, as well as the U. S. presidential election of 1860, as examples of often temporary regional instability that occurs from time-to-time in otherwise stable two-party systems ( Riker, 1982 ).
Life expectancy was much higher in the U. S. ( because of better food, less disease, lighter work loads, and better medical care ) so the numbers grew rapidly by excesses of births over deaths, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census.
The U. S. Custom House began construction in 1860 and was completed in 1861.
In the 1860 U. S. Census Putnam County had 9, 240 residents, with eighteen sawmills and three flour mills.
Financial historians Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright have shown that before 1860 most early U. S. corporations sold shares in themselves directly to the public without the aid of intermediaries like investment banks.
Castro Street was named for José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ), a Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U. S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde of Alta California from 1835 to 1836.
Ernest Thompson Seton ( August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946 ) was a Scots-Canadian ( and naturalized U. S. citizen ) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ).
The 1860 U. S. census indicated that Genesee County had a population of 22, 498 of Michigan's 750, 000.
In the 1860 U. S. Census, only 12 Mercer County families were listed as slave owners, with a combined total of 24 slaves.
The 1860 U. S. Census showed the newly created Carter County with a population of 1, 197 free persons and 20 slaves held by eight slave owners.
Magoffin County is a county located in the U. S. state of Kentucky which was formed from parts of Floyd, Johnson, and Morgan Counties and officially created on 22 February 1860.
* William Nathan Harrell Smith ( 1812 – 1889 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1859 – 1860 )
Gold was discovered in the county near Auraria in the 1830s, and the U. S. government briefly had a mint in Dahlonega as a result until 1860.
In the 1860 presidential election, Tensas Parish supported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U. S. Senator John Bell of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United States, the Union, and the " enforcement of the laws.
By 1860, immigrants who had previously come from the Eastern U. S. were supplanted by those from Sweden and Germany.
The Pleasant Valley Wine Company, founded in 1860 and a mile southwest, was designated U. S. Bonded Winery No. 1 and has eight remarkable stone buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
As another town named Waverly already existed in Upstate New York, the name of the town was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U. S. Postmaster General Joseph Holt.
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Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.
In the 1860 - 70 decade there are many poems like `` Revulsion '', but there is only one `` Neutral Tones ''.
With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.
From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.
On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.
" The Rail Candidate "— Lincoln's 1860 candidacy is depicted as held up by the slavery issue — a slave on the left and party organization on the right.
On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.
Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.
As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, " Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself.
He spent 1860 in Kentucky until December 21, when he sailed for California to take command of the Department of the Pacific.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.
The Republicans strongly advocated nationalism, and in their 1860 platform they denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason.
The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.
In 1860, the last national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.
Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.
Lincoln ’ s assessment of the political issue for the 1860 elections was that, " This question of Slavery was more important than any other ; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present.
* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )
* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )
By 1860, wheat farms had been established from Encounter Bay in the south to Clare in the north.
In 1860 the Thorndon Park reservoir was opened, finally providing an alternative water source to the now turbid River Torrens.
Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.
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