Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

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.

Mining in the United States became prevalent in the 19th century, and the General Mining Act of 1872 was passed to encourage mining of federal lands.

Grant's two Attorney Generals Amos T. Akerman and George H. Williams, in addition to Solicitor General Benjamin Bristow, effectively prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan by 1872 through the use of the Force Acts passed by President Grant and Congress.

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

* Edward Selig Salomon ( 1836 – 1913 ), General in the American Civil War and Governor of Washington Territory ( 1870 – 1872 )

Shoulder strap insignia, introduced by Sherman in 1872 for his use as General of the Army

The county is named for William Trousdale ( 1790 – 1872 ), Brigadier General in the Mexican War, Governor of Tennessee, 1849 – 1851, and U. S. Minister to Brazil, 1853-1857.

An act to incorporate the City of Charleston, Missouri, in the County of Mississippi, was enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri on March 25, 1872.

The new county was created to satisfy southwestern Clarke County residents ' demand for their own county after the county seat was moved from Watkinsville to Athens by the General Assembly in 1872.

In 1872, in response to the assassination of friendly Yavapai chiefs, the take-over of the entire Yavapai nation and its reservation by hostile elements, and with most of the American area under continual penetrating raids by Yavapai warrior bands, General George Crook began an all-out campaign against the Yavapai, with the aim of forcing the insurgent Yavapai warrior bands into a decisive battle and the removal of Yavapai settlers from American territory.

Krack was elected Illinois General Assembly in 1872 and became treasurer of Livingston County in 1878.

The Pioneer General Store was built and operated by Neil and Archibald Currie in 1872.

The city retains several historic sites in addition to the Marine Mill, such as the General Store, built in 1870 ; the Stone House Museum, built in 1872 ; the Village Hall, built in 1888 ; the Lutheran Church ; and the Fire Hall.

In 1872, the name " Brookhaven " became most widely used after it was published in the letterhead of the Beatty Brothers General Store at Sneath's ( later Beatty's ) Corners.

The preservation of much of the fortifications and defences of Quebec is due to the intervention of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada 1872 – 1878, who also established the Citadelle as a vice-regal residence.

In addition to its use as a military installation, it has been also an official residence of the Queen in Right of Canada and the Governor General of Canada since 1872, who by tradition resides there for several weeks out of the year.

In 1872 he became the third Governor General of Canada, bolstering imperial ties in the early years of the Dominion, and in 1884 he reached the pinnacle of his diplomatic career as eighth Viceroy of India.

From 1872 to 1874, Kuropatkin studied at the Nicholas General Staff Academy, after which he was dispatched as a military attaché to Berlin and Paris, completing his military studies, and with the French troops in Algiers, accompanying French expedition to Sahara.

It also had direct ties to Toronto General Trusts, Canada ’ s first trust company, incorporated in 1872.

In 1872, less than a decade after he began to practice law, the Connecticut legislature elected him one of a commission of five that made the Revision of 1875, the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut.

In that role, he distinguished himself ; with the aid of General Guerra and President Benito Juárez, he gained admission to the Mexican National Military Academy ( Heroico Colegio Militar ) at Chapultepec in Mexico City in 1872.

In March 1872, at the request of President Ulysses S. Grant and the Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano, General Howard was asked to temporarily leave his duties as Commissioner of the Bureau to deal with Indian affairs in the west.

Upon returning from his assignment in November 1872, General Howard discovered that the Bureau and all of its activities had been officially terminated by Congress, effective as of June ( Howard, 1907 ).

In 1872, the lawyer Oliver Mowat became Premier of Ontario and remained as premier until 1896.

Active in Republican politics, he was the Platform Committee chairman at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago, he offered Vice President Schuyler Colfax's name for renomination at the 1872 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and gave the nominating speech for Oliver H. P. Morton for President at the 1876 Republican National Convention in Cincinnati.

Sir Oliver Mowat, ( July 22, 1820 – 19 April 1903 ) was a Canadian politician, and the third Premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, making him the longest serving premier of that province and the 3rd longest in all of Canadian history.

The longest serving Premier in the province's history was Sir Oliver Mowat, who was in office from 1872 to 1896.

* 1872 – 1896 – The provincial government of Oliver Mowat vigorously defends provincial rights and expands the scope of provincial power.

President Grant sent Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard to Arizona who organized a peace conference with Apache leader Eskiminzin in May 1872 at Camp Grant.

The section from Shipley to Oliver Lock was reopened in 1872, five years to the day since it had closed, and the top section was reopened the following April.

* Oliver Mowat *, Liberal, 1872 – 1896

In 1872, Wright helped found The Metaphysical Club with other Harvard intellectuals such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. His views on Darwinism played a significant role in shaping the ideas of the other members of the club.

That same year 1872 Herbert sat for his first posed theatrical photographic portrait by noted photographer Oliver Sarony, an older brother of the better remembered Napoleon Sarony.

Oliver Cromwell and His Secretary John Milton, Receiving a Deputation Seeking Aid for the Swiss Protestants ( 1872 )

The area was originally known as Chapel Point because it was the site of a Wesleyan Chapel built in 1872 on land given by William Oliver.

Polish activists started to regard Masurians as " Polish brothers " after Wojciech Kętrzyński had published his pamphlet " O Mazurach " in 1872 and Polish activists engaged in active self-help against repressions by German state Kętrzyński fought against attempts to Germanize Masuria

* 1872 – Peter O ' Connor, Irish athlete ( d. 1957 )

* 1872 – V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian freedom fighter ( d. 1936 )

* V. O. Chidambaram Pillai ( 1872 – 1936 ), an Indian lawyer, trade union leader, shipping magnate and freedom fighter

* Eliza O ' Neill ( 1791 – 1872 ), actress.

Gila Bend (; O ' odham: Hila Wi: n ), founded in 1872, is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

A railroad depot was constructed in September 1872, and Mr. S. O. Morse assumed duties as station agent.

In 1872, Father Jeremiah O ' Connell, a Roman Catholic missionary priest, purchased a tract known as the Caldwell farm, less than one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of Garibaldi Station.

The town was renamed 1872 by H. C. Parsons of the C & O Railroad in honor of his birthplace in St. Albans, Vermont.

They include The Fortunes of Glencore ( 1857 ), Tony Butler ( 1865 ), Luthell of Arran ( 1865 ), Sir Brooke Fosbrooke ( 1866 ), Lord Kilgobbin ( 1872 ) and the table-talk of Cornelius O ' Dowd, originally contributed to Blackwood.

The popularity of the resort benefited from the emphasis on outdoor life in the mid-nineteenth century as east coast American cities became increasingly industrialized and polluted, and from the establishment of stops in Bedford for the B & O and Pennsylvania Railroads beginning in 1872, providing easy accessibility from cities such as Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, and New York.

In order to supply freight cars to the C & O, and by extension to the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads as well, Huntington was a major financier behind Ensign Manufacturing Company, basing the company in Huntington, West Virginia, directly connecting to the C & O ; Ensign was incorporated on November 1, 1872.

Pietro Giacomo Porcelli ( 30 January 1872 – 28 June 1943 ) was an Italian-born sculptor responsible for many statues in Western Australia, including the Explorers ' Monument, and those of C. Y. O ' Connor and Alexander Forrest.

* Lucius O ' Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin ( 1800 – 1872 )

* Sir Lucius O ' Brien, 5th Baronet ( 1800 – 1872 ) ( succeeded as Baron Inchiquin in 1855 )

* Lucius O ' Brien, 1800 – 1872

:* Palaestina O. P .- Cambridge, 1872

His older brother Lucius O ' Brien ( 1800 – 1872 ) was also a Member of Parliament for County Clare.

In 1866 he was attached to the Abyssinian expedition, accompanying the army to Magdala and back ; and in 1871 – 1872 he was appointed a member of the Persian Boundary Commission along with O.

Interestingly in 1872 the RW & O took over the Black River and Utica Railroad.

* O ' Farrell, John ( 1872 ).

In 1872 a Dr. O ' Leary, who held a high estimate of the water quality, reported that the " spa " was in " a most disgraceful state of repair ", upon which the developer and alderman Frederick Stokes sent samples to the medical inspector, Dr. Cameron, for analysis.

* 9 November-Peter O ' Connor, athlete ( born 1872 ).