A post office opened May 20, 1872, with Hazen W. Brown as its first postmaster.

John Louis then served as the slave, non-combatant, personal-body-servant to his older nephew John Claiborne Thompson ( April 3, 1828-February 2, 1872 ), the son of his deceased half-sister Elizabeth Little Brown ( February 2, 1792-December 10, 1854 ), during John Claiborne Thompson's 12 months of service from May 1861 to May 1862 in the American Civil War, as evidenced by John Louis's application for a pension late in life.

From 1872 to 1879, she assisted Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell in editing Woman's Journal.

Blake was recruited into active politics by George Brown, became leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1868 and premier in 1871, but left provincial politics to run in the 1872 federal election, in which he was re-elected.

* Brown, Canter, Jr. " Carpetbagger Intrigues, Black Leadership, and a Southern Loyalist Triumph: Florida's Gubernatorial Election of 1872 " Florida Historical Quarterly, 1994 72 ( 3 ): 275 – 301.

At the far end of The Cross from the townhouse is the Browns Institute, which was gifted to Newmilns by Ms Martha Brown ( of Lanfine ) in 1872, whilst across the road stands the Loudoun Arms, which was built during the 18th Century.

Descendants of John and Margaretta Brown include Senator Benjamin Gratz Brown, the 20th Governor of Missouri and Vice Presidential candidate in the 1872 election, and children's author Margaret Wise Brown.

Brown was the vice presidential candidate under Greeley in the presidential election of 1872 for the Liberal Republican and Democratic parties.

* B. Gratz Brown, a governor of Missouri, vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1872.

Brown was elected governor in 1870 over his Republican competitor, William H. Wisener of Shelbyville, and was re-elected in 1872 over A.

Brown was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1896, where he and his future partner, John Bakewell, Jr. ( 1872 – 1963 ), also a member of Beta Theta Pi, were both protégés of famed Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck.

* Frank Russell Brown ( 24 March 1872 – 3 April 1900 ).

* B. Gratz Brown, Senator, Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican Vice presidential candidate in the election of 1872

* Peter Brown ( 1872 )

In the Presidential election of 1872, Governor Palmer received three electoral votes for Vice President by electors who had voted for the Liberal Republican Party's Vice Presidential candidate B. Gratz Brown for President after the death of Horace Greeley.

December 1872 in the Battle of Salt River Canyon, also called Skeleton Cave Massacre, 130 troopers from the 5th Cavalry Regiment led by Captain William H. Brown and 30 Indian Scouts, killed 76 men, women and children, 15 more were dying, only 18 women and 6 children survived and were taken into captivity )

* Charles Henry Brown ( 1872 – 1917 ), New Zealand Army officer who served during World War I

His score of books, several of which were translated into French and published in Paris, include French Pictures in English Chalk ( 1876 – 1878 ); The Roning Englishman in Turkey ( 1854 ); Men of the Second Empire ( 1872 ); Young Brown ( 1874 ); Sidelights on English Society ( 1881 ); Under the Lens: Social Photographs ( 1885 ); and Imprisoned in a Spanish Convent: An English Girl's Experiences ( 1886 ).

Montgomery, AL: Barrett & Brown, 1872..

* 1872: Ben Brown.

After Governor Weld dissolved the Council in 1871, new elections were held in 1872, and Brown was not nominated to the new council.

Lytle Brown ( November 22, 1872 – May 3, 1951 ) was a U. S. Army officer who fought in the Spanish-American War and participated in the Mexican Expedition of 1916.

Entitled The Fleshly School of Poetry, this article was expanded into a pamphlet ( 1872 ), but he subsequently withdrew from the criticisms it contained, and it is chiefly remembered by the replies it evoked from Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a letter to the Athenaeum ( December 16, 1871 ), entitled The Stealthy School of Criticism, and from Algernon Charles Swinburne in Under the Microscope ( 1872 ).

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

Alcott's published books, all from late in his life, include Tablets ( 1868 ), Concord Days ( 1872 ), New Connecticut ( 1881 ), and Sonnets and Canzonets ( 1882 ).

After a wearisome journey from Isfahán to Akka she finally arrived accompanied by her brother in 1872.

Sasso was the main source of European borax from 1827 to 1872, at which date American sources replaced it.

A page from the Hindu calendar 1871 – 1872.

The great edition, of which the text and apparatus appeared in 1869 and 1872, was called by himself editio viii ; but this number is raised to twenty or twenty-one, if mere reprints from stereotype plates and the minor editions of his great critical texts are included ; posthumous prints bring the total to forty-one.

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

In the fall of 1872 he entered the Friedrichskolleg Gymnasium ( Collegium fridericianum, the same school that Immanuel Kant had attended 140 years before ), but after an unhappy period he transferred ( fall 1879 ) to and graduated from ( spring 1880 ) the more science-oriented Wilhelm Gymnasium.

* 1872 – Challenger expedition:, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.

One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death.

In 1872, the dispensary became the New Hospital for Women and Children, treating women from all over London for gynaecological conditions ; the hospital moved to new premises in Marleybone Street in 1874.

His training was completed in close contact with the Neapolitan school of Verism as a pupil of Domenico Morelli and Stanislao Lista at the Naples Academy from 1872 on.

He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue.

from Harvard in 1872, and that of D. D.

A contemporary illustration of Thespis from The Illustrated London News of 6 January 1872

From 1830 the state began to fund buildings with grants, then from 1846 it was funding schools by direct sponsorship, and in 1872 Scotland moved to a system like that in England of state-sponsored largely free schools, run by local school boards.

She was used for harbour service from 1872 and was sold in 1888.

In 1872 the first horse railway was inaugurated, and from 1893 an electric tram was developed.

Early rowing machines are known to have existed from the mid 1800s, a US patent being issued to WB Curtis in 1872 for a particular hydraulic based damper design.

The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city, now called Spanish Town, which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872.

This settlement served as the capital of both Spanish and English Jamaica from its foundation in 1534 until 1872 after which the capital was moved to Kingston.

Although Marx won this contest, the transfer of the seat of the General Council from London to New York in 1872, which Marx supported, led to the decline of the International.

Braun was born in Fulda, Germany, and educated at the University of Marburg and received a Ph. D. from the University of Berlin in 1872.

Lie met with Klein every day from October 1869 through 1872: in Berlin from the end of October 1869 to the end of February 1870, and in Paris, Göttingen and Erlangen in the subsequent two years ( ibid, p. 2 ).