For twenty-five consecutive years he was chairman of the Atchison County Republican Central Committee ; was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1868 to 1884, and secretary of the committee during the last four years of that period ; served as a delegate to the first Republican Convention in 1860, and was a member of the 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880 Republican National Conventions ; was a member of one of the vice-presidents of the United States Centennial commission ; was one of the founders of the Kansas Historical Society, of which he was president in 1878 ; was president the same year of the Editors ' and Publishers ' Association ; and from 1878 to the time of his death was one of the board of managers of the Leavenworth branch of the National Soldiers ' Home.

The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s, and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name The Publishers ' Weekly ( with an apostrophe ) in 1872.

In 1872 the Weekly published a story that set off a national scandal and preoccupied the public for months.

Having been vilified in the media for her support of free love, Woodhull devoted an issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly ( November 2, 1872 ) to an alleged adulterous affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant minister in New York ( he supported female suffrage but had lectured against free love in his sermons ).

She published a story in her paper ( Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly ) on November 2, 1872, claiming that America's most renowned clergyman was secretly practicing the free-love doctrines which he denounced from the pulpit.

Sumner puts head in British lion's mouth — Harper's Weekly, 1872

Two Are Company, Three Are None, wood engraving, Harper's Weekly, 1872

After the war, Harper's Weekly became more supportive of the Republican Party, playing an important role in the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 and 1872.

Fenton ( center ) is among the conspiratorial Liberal Republicans in this Harper's Weekly cartoon of March 16, 1872.

Thomas Nast's caricature of the Cincinnati Convention from Harper's Weekly, April 13, 1872.

Liberal Republican “ conspirators ” in a political cartoon from Harper's Weekly of March 16, 1872.

By 1866, the word weekly was dropped but with the issue of Thursday, January 26, 1871, it was once more The Weekly Western Star until Thursday, December 26, 1872.

It was rechristened The Pioneer later in 1871 by the Pioneer Publishing Company and then The Montana Pioneer near the end of 1872 by Washington J. McCormick, Sr. before being purchased by Frank Woody and T. M. Chisholm a couple months later and renamed The Weekly Missoulian.

" Harper ’ s Weekly 16 ( 30 March 1872 ): pp. 249, 251-2.

A complete edition of James's letters began publication in 2006 with two volumes covering the 1855 – 1872 period, edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias.

Among Wilson's published works are: History of the Anti-Slavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, 1861-64 ( 1864 ); History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68 ( 1868 ); and an exceedingly valuable, although partisan, publication, History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, ( three volumes, 1872 – 77 ).

Illustration by D. H. Friston that accompanied the first publication of lesbian vampire novella Carmilla in The Dark Blue magazine in 1872

The Wichita Eagle, which began publication in 1872, is the city's major daily newspaper.

* Myths and Myth Makers ( 1872 ) ( Online publication )

The first translated publication of Capital: Critique of Political Economy was in Imperial Russia, in March 1872.

But the manuscript of this treatise, after much pains had already been spent on it, was unaccountably lost at Nancy in 1872 ; and, though he hoped to be able speedily to reproduce the missing portion and finish the work, no material was left in a state fit for publication.

In 1872 Snow provided assistance and advice to Louisa L. Greene in the creation of a woman's publication loosely affiliated with the Relief Society — the Woman's Exponent.

In 1872 Snow provided assistance and advice to Louisa Lula Greene ( Richards ) in the creation of a woman's publication, the Woman's Exponent, which was loosely affiliated with the Relief Society.

The interest felt by German literary men in Shaftesbury was revived by the publication of two excellent monographs, one dealing with him mainly from the theological side by Gideon Spicker ( Freiburg in Baden, 1872 ), the other dealing with him mainly from the philosophical side by Georg von Gizycki ( Leipzig, 1876 ).

Taking Fenn's work as a basis, the aim of the new editor was to include all the letters which had come to light since this publication, and in his careful and accurate work in three volumes ( London, 1872 – 1875 ) he printed over four hundred letters for the first time.

His career culminated in the publication of Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens ( 1872 ) and Synopsis of the North American Lichens, Part 1 ( 1882 ).

Illustration by D. H. Friston that accompanied the first publication of lesbian vampire novella Carmilla in The Dark Blue magazine in 1872

He held a variety of newspaper and advertising jobs in Portland and Boston before establishing his first publication, weekly titled People's Ledger in Boston in 1872.

In 1872, Woodworth initiated the publication of annual reports of the Marine Hospital Service.

After her arrest for illegally voting, Susan B. Anthony gave a speech within court in which she addressed the issues of language within the constitution documented in her publication, “ Speech after Arrest for Illegal voting ” in 1872.

He was eventually acquitted, but the journal ceased publication with its 13th issue ( April 1872 ).

The expertise that he gained from these expeditions led to the publication of his 1872 book, Examination of Fishery Conditions in Russia.

Illustration by D. H. Friston that accompanied the first publication of lesbian vampire novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu in The Dark Blue magazine in 1872.

In early 1872 came the first issue of the newspaper La Campana and Cafiero wrote for, and gave money towards its publication.

Reprint of 1871 – 1872 publication.

His first publication was on fossil primates in 1872.

German engineers have also devoted special attention to the measurement of the flow in rivers ; the Beiträge zur Hydrographie des Königreiches Bohmen ( Prague, 1872 – 1875 ) of AR Harlacher contained valuable measurements of this kind, together with a comparison of the experimental results with the formulae of flow that had been proposed up to the date of its publication, and important data were yielded by the gaugings of the Mississippi made for the United States government by AA Humphreys and HL Abbot, by Robert Gordon's gaugings of the Ayeyarwady River, and by Allen JC Cunningham's experiments on the Ganges canal.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

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.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

In England a number of statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of the Parliament of 1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of 1872 and 1873.

They lived comfortably at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, where Helen Beatrix was born on 28 July 1866 and her brother Walter Bertram on 14 March 1872.

From 1869 to 1872, he was employed as an Assistant in Harvard's astronomical observatory, doing important work on determining the brightness of stars and the shape of the Milky Way.

Heine provided the first published definition of uniform continuity in 1872, but based these ideas on lectures given by Dirichlet in 1854.

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, the only U. S. President to be born on Independence Day.

Image: Claude Monet-Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse. jpg | Jean Monet on his hobby horse, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Railroad had reached the area in 1872 — on Little Clam Lake, in Cadillac.

In various revised editions ( 12 in all, through 1872 ), Principles of Geology was the most influential geological work in the middle of the 19th century, and did much to put geology on a modern footing.

A return fixture was organised by representatives of Scottish football teams on 30 November 1872.

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.

In 1872, he moved to Washington, D. C., after his house on South Avenue in Rochester, New York burned down ; arson was suspected.

In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket.

Between 1870 and 1872, Cantor published more papers on trigonometric series, and also a paper defining irrational numbers as convergent sequences of rational numbers.

The horizontal distance was cut in 1872 by a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, who believed on the analogy of the King's Chamber that such shafts must exist.

The most well-known incident of his term took place on September 6, 1872.

Gilbert worked with Frederic Clay on Happy Arcadia ( 1872 ) and with Alfred Cellier on Topsyturveydom ( 1874 ), and wrote The Wicked World ( 1873 ) Sweethearts ( 1874 ) and several other libretti, farces, extravaganzas, fairy comedies, dramas and adaptations.

Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished by Tynwald in 1993 ( although the last execution on the island took place in 1872 ).

American scenery — the inn on the roadside ( 1872 )