The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

Henry Mayhew was the great-grandfather of Audrey Mayhew Allen ( b. 1870 ), author of a number of children's stories published in various periodicals, and of a book Gladys in Grammarland, an imitation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland books.

Harp on a Tarsia panel by Baron Henry de Triqueti ( 1803 – 1874 ), dated 1863, photo c. 1870.

* 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.

It is generally understood that Gloucestershire County Cricket Club was formally constituted in 1870, having developed from Dr Henry Grace's West Gloucestershire club.

* July 31 – George Henry Thomas, American general ( d. 1870 )

John Henry Parker, appointed the first keeper in 1870, inherited the disagreeable task of trying manage through the dismantling.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

* Henry D. Washburn, Surveyor General, Montana Territory and commander of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone in 1870

* Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), devised the Bliss library classification system

In 1870 the elder Henry James wrote that Alger " talks freely about his own late insanity — which he in fact appears to enjoy as a subject of conversation ".

U. S. Major General George Henry Thomas ( 1816 – 1870 ) was born at Newsom's Depot.

), C. Hodgson Fowler ( 1856 – 60 ), Thomas Gardner ( 1856 – 61 ), Thomas Graham Jackson ( 1858 – 61 ), John T. Micklethwaite ( 1862 – 69 ), Benjamin Mountfort ( 1841 – 46 ), John Norton ( 1870 – 78 ), George Gilbert Scott, Jr. ( 1856 – 63 ), John Oldrid Scott ( 1858 – 78 ), J. J. Stevenson ( 1858 – 60 ), George Henry Stokes ( 1843 – 47 ), George Edmund Street ( 1844 – 49 ), William White ( 1845 – 47 ).

In 1870, Henry A.

* Union Army Major General George Henry Thomas ( 1816 – 1870 ) was born here

In an 1870 address titled, " Spontaneous Generation ", Thomas Henry Huxley defined biogenesis as life originating from other life and coined the negative of the term, abiogenesis, which was the term that became dominant.

* John Henry Williams ( Welsh politician ) ( 1870 – 1936 ), MP for Llanelli 1922 – 1936

Also in 1870, Elizabeth Roberts Tilton told her husband Theodore Tilton that she had been carrying on an adulterous relation with his good friend Henry Ward Beecher.

In 1870, Elizabeth had confessed to her husband, Theodore Tilton, that she had had a relationship with Henry Ward Beecher.

Dyer filed for divorce on April 4, 1870, claiming they had a third child, Henry Mark, the year before and that Miller was " wholly " neglectful.

" It has also been suggested that Watkins ' speculation ( he called it ' surmise ') stemmed from reading an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the British Archaeological Association in Hereford titled Boundaries and Landmarks, in which he speculated that " Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe ".

Pauline Fowle Durant, and her husband, Boston lawyer and lay preacher Henry Fowle Durant, founded the college in 1870 ; the first students enrolled in 1875.

Wellesley College was founded by Pauline and Henry Fowle Durant, and its charter was signed on March 17, 1870 by Massachusetts Governor William Claflin.

George Henry Thomas ( July 31, 1816 – March 28, 1870 ) was a career United States Army officer and a Union General during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater.

According to the historian N. D. A. Kemp, the origin of the contemporary debate on euthanasia started in 1870. which will lead to unacceptable consequences.

* 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

He made many diplomatic visits throughout Europe and the Americas, including an extensive visit to the United States in 1936 where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed a personal envoy – who did not require Senate confirmation – to the Holy See in December 1939, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power.

The Denver and Rio Grande Railway ( D & RG ) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General William Jackson Palmer and a board of four directors.

Governor D. W. C. Senter signed this act into law on June 2, 1870, and Loudon County was born.

* George D. Prentice ( 1802 – 1870 ), controversial newspaper editor, was born in town.

The first business structure was built by H. Meskell in 1870 on land owned by William D. Jones.

Stanwood's Post Office was established as Centerville in 1870, and the name was changed to Stanwood in 1877 by D. O.

Around 1870, Anderson W. Brown of Stevens Point and Anson P. Vaughn traveled up the Wisconsin River in order to cruise timber for Brown's father, E. D. Brown.

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870.

Originally erected in 1870 on an island at the O ' Connell Bridge entrance to D ' Olier Street, it was moved to O ' Connell Street in 1929.

After his commentaries ( on Romans, the Gospel of John, the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle to the Hebrews ) and several volumes of sermons, his best-known books are Stunden christlicher Andacht ( 1839 ; 8th ed., 1870 ), intended to take the place of J H D Zschokke's standard rationalistic work with the same title, and his reply to David Strauss's Life of Jesus ( Glaubwürdigkeit der evangelischen Geschichte, 1837 ).

He was the only son of the three children of George Ritchie, D. D., minister of the parish and a man of scholarship and culture, who was elected to the office of moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1870.

As a scholar he is best known for his edition of the Greek New Testament ( 1856 – 1860 ), and the Old Testament ( 1864 – 1870 ), with commentaries ; but his writings were many in number, and included a volume of devotional verse, The Holy Year ( 1862 ), Church History up to A. D. 451 ( 1881 – 1883 ), and Memoirs of his uncle, William Wordsworth ( 1851 ), to whom he was literary executor.

A reorganization in 1870 converted the loose network of locally controlled hospitals into a centrally controlled Marine Hospital Service, with its headquarters in Washington, D. C.

Following his arrival at Halifax, Arthur toured the country for eight weeks and made a visit in January 1870 to Washington, D. C., where he met with President Ulysses S. Grant.

To avoid being drafted for the Franco-Prussian War, Berliner migrated to the United States of America in 1870 with a friend of his father's, in whose shop he worked in Washington, D. C ..

* David D. Caldwell ( 1870 – 1953 ), of Washington, D. C.

Stevens granted several Ph. D. s between 1870 and 1900, making it one of the earliest Ph. D. granting institutions in the United States.