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* 1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader ( d. 1943 )

* 1871 Clint Smith, age 11, and brother Jeff Smith, age 9, kidnapped by Indians near Rocksprings.

The first homestead in Smith County was in 1871 and there were 3, 800 inhabitants by 1875.

* William Cunningham Smith ( 1871 – 1943 ), American academic of English literature, university administrator, and writer

* Mysterious Billy Smith ( 1871 – 1937 ), Canadian boxer

* William Smith ( Somerset cricketer ) ( 1871 – 1946 )

The area of Smith County where Lindale sits was inhabited long before the town was founded in 1871.

* George Otis Smith ( 1871 – 1944 ), director of United States Geological Survey, 1st chairman of Federal Power Commission

* George Smith ( bishop ) ( 1815 – 1871 ), 2nd principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849 – 1864

In 1871 Smith was appointed Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the nomination of John Hutton Balfour.

* Lawrence Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1822-Brighton, Victoria, 2 September 1871 ), a squatter, married at Brighton, Victoria, in 1859 to Annie Maria Smith, and had one son:

Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote " Above all nations is humanity ," an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to Cornell in May 1871.

The Botanic Gardens at Smith CollegeThe college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and six faculty.

* James Smith ( VC ) ( 1871 – 1946 ), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

* Sir Grafton Elliot Smith ( 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937 ), anatomist and palaeoanthropologist.

Warington Baden-Powell is also the author of Canoe Travelling: Log of a Cruise on the Baltic, and Practical Hints on Building and Fitting Canoes London, Smith, Elder, 1871.

Frazer's interest in social anthropology was aroused by reading E. B. Tylor's Primitive Culture ( 1871 ) and encouraged by his friend, the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith, who was linking the Old Testament with early Hebrew folklore.

George Smith died in 1871 and his son John Gordon Smith inherited the distillery.

* Samuel Walter Johnson Smith ( born 1871 ), English physicist

* Albert Edward Smith ( 1871 – 1947 ), Canadian religious leader and politician

A town site plat was filed by Jesse N. and Elizabeth Day on November 23, 1871.

By 1871, numerous mining camps sprang up in the valley and resident John C. Cox filed a plan for a city on the east side of the valley.

It is the only quarter section in that area with no claim filed in 1870 ( no claims could be filed until 1871, and the Ingallses had returned to Wisconsin by then ) and it is the only quarter section with a hand-dug well ( which Pa told of digging shortly after their arrival there ).

There were some exploratory town-founding rumblings in 1870, followed by a petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, filed January 26, 1871.

Knight filed a successful patent interference lawsuit and was awarded the patent in 1871.

On March 14, 1871, Barton County, Missouri filed a lawsuit against Earp and his sureties.

His intense pressure pushed back the abrogation project of the décret Crémieux filed by the chief of the provisional government, Adolphe Thiers in 1871.

A claim was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, but the grant was not patented to Manuela Carrillo de Jones and Francisca Carrillo de Thompson until 1871.

In 1871 he published La natation ou l ’ art de nager appris seul en moins d ’ une heure ( Learning the art of swimming alone in less than an hour ) before resigning from the Army and moving to Marseilles, where he filed the patent for the " airlift swimming trunks and belt with a double compensatory reservoir ".

The boundary on the east was settled by a treaty with Portugal in 1869, the Boers abandoning their claim to Delagoa Bay ; that on the west was dealt with in 1871.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

Cloud and found Whitford's lapsed claim, purchased the land, and built what is now the Central Dam in downtown Fergus Falls around 1871.

When the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871 passed through the Gardiner area they encountered two men, named J. C. McCartney and H. R. Horr, that had laid claim to and established a ranch and bath house on the Mammoth terraces near Liberty Cap.

Scranton, built a cabin and established a claim at Spokane Falls in 1871.

The offer was accepted, and on 27 October 1871 the district, together with some adjacent territory to which the Transvaal had laid claim, was proclaimed, under the name of Griqualand West, British territory.

In 1871 went to the Omineca district and staked a claim on a small stream that ran into Babine Lake.

In 1852, Ard Godfrey built a house, sawmill, and gristmill on Joe Brown's old claim, but he and his wife Harriet abandoned the site in 1871, as the mills at St. Anthony Falls economically overshadowed any commercial potential of Minnehaha.

The offer was accepted, and on October 27, 1871 the district, together with some adjacent territory to which the Transvaal had laid claim, was proclaimed, under the name of Griqualand West, British territory.

Otago's town has the earlier claim to the name, however-its surveying dates from 1862, whereas the northern city did not receive its name until 1871.

" After completing a rough draft of Expressions in April 1871 he set it aside and turned to revising the Origin to meet Mivart's arguments and counter the claim that some divine inner force was driving evolution.

Legends claim that the lake is home to a lake monster, Pepie, which was recently reported to have first been seen on April 28, 1871, according to Archives at the Lake City Graphic and the book " The Minnesota Book of Days " published by the Minnesota State Historical Society.

Despite claims of other people being older, 23 years of research have so far failed to identify anyone older ( for the February 1986 – September 1986 period ) whose age can be verified, although the claim of 115 year old Augusta Holtz is now pending, with evidence as being born in August 1871, and lived to October 1986, outliving Keith.