In the spring of 1872 the company acquired critical right-of-way along Clear Creek to extend its line.

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.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

By 1872, he was living in Vienna and was employed by the Department of Justice as an officer and by Prince Rudolf's family as his tutor.

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

Arbor Day was founded in 1872 by J.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

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

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.

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.

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.

Cleveland was thus the NA's westernmost outpost in 1872, the year the club folded.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

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.

In the US, the Doctor of Science, Sc. D., is an academic research degree that was first conferred in North America by Harvard University in 1872.

The boundary with Iran was firmly delineated in 1904, replacing the ambiguous line made by a British commission in 1872.

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.

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

After his mother's death in 1872, he was sent, together with his younger brother, Conrad, back to Honfleur, to live with his paternal grandparents.

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.

It acquired more territory from Mono County in 1870 and Kern County and San Bernardino County in 1872.

In 1872, when the Texas and Pacific acquired the railroad and built out to Longview in Gregg County, Hallville lost much of its western trade.

Contentment had been built about 1830 on the James River and Kanawha Turnpike in the west end of what is now Ansted, and they acquired it in 1872.

In 1866, a bill introduced into the Legislature by commissioner Andrew Green was approved, the first segment of park was acquired through condemnation in 1872, and construction began.

He continued, however, to contribute articles to the North British Review, which, previously a Scottish Free Church organ, had been acquired by friends in sympathy with him, and which for some years ( until 1872, when it ceased to appear ) actively promoted the interests of a high-class Liberalism in both temporal and ecclesiastical matters ; he also did a good deal of lecturing on historical subjects.

The first segment of park was acquired through condemnation in 1872, and construction soon began following a design created by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed the adjacent, gracefully curving Riverside Drive.

Its rough and rowdy reputation had, by 1872, acquired it the nickname of " Hell's Half Acre " ( the heart of which is today occupied by the Fort Worth Convention Center and the Fort Worth Water Gardens ).

By 1872, sixteen acres of land at the present site were acquired near the village of Girton.

The Hanko – Hyvinkää Railroad was the first private railroad in Finland, founded in 1872, and acquired by the Finnish State RR Co. in 1875.

In 1872, Miller acquired land at The Basin in 1872 and invested considerable time and money building up a stud farm for racing horses, at one stage owning over in The Basin.

The Museo Arqueológico Nacional acquired the Cortesianus Codex from book-collector José Ignacio Miró in 1872.

Over the next dozen years the railroad acquired other large tracts of land: in 1870, in 1872, and acquisition of the Philadelphia Coal Company in 1873 with its large leases in the Mahanoy basin.

In 1872 it was acquired and renamed by James A. Folger, who had arrived from Nantucket Island at the age of 15 with his two older brothers during the California Gold Rush.

The estate was acquired for the sum of £ 14, 275 on 27 September 1872.

Lewis entered as a student of the Middle Temple in 1872 ; he acquired his knowledge of the law in the chambers of Robert Wallace, Herbert Reed and Robert McCall.

When the DL & WRR took over the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad in 1872, the road acquired the former hall for its shipping offices in the Great Lakes port.

The Augustinians acquired Orlagh as a Novitiate in 1872.

About 1870, he acquired the lease of ' The Lowlands ', a sheep station, on the shores of Lake Wellington near Sale and in 1872, formed the firm of A. McLean and Company, Stock and Station Agents, at Maffra.

Richard Rouse Terry acquired the land from the Blaxlands in 1872 where he rebuilt Denistone House, now within the grounds of Ryde Hospital.