On his death in 1873, Johns Hopkins, a Quaker entrepreneur and childless bachelor, bequeathed $ 7 million ( Between $ 140 million to $ 1. 6 billion in 2011 dollars, by varying estimates ) to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rockville Railroad Station | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station in Rockville, built 1873.

Several epidemics occurred in Baltimore, Memphis and Washington DC between 1865 and 1873.

Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a " dame school ", some home schooling under the " capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic " instruction of Albion Bradbury ( her stepfather ), a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months ' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873.

Johns Hopkins ( May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873 ) was an American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland.

A charitable individual, Hopkins put up his own money more than once to not only aid Baltimore City during times of financial crises, but also to twice bail the railroad out of debt, in 1857 and 1873.

This article, first published in 1870, also accompanied Hopkins ' obituary in the Baltimore American as a tribute in 1873.

Johns Hopkins ' views on his bequests, and on the duties and responsibilities of the two board of trustees, especially the hospital board of trustees led by his friend and fellow Quaker Francis King, were formally stated primarily in four documents, the incorporation papers filed in 1867, his instruction letter to the hospital trustees dated March 12, 1873, his will, which was quoted from extensively in his Baltimore Sun obituary, and in his will's two codicils, one dated 1870 and the other dated 1873.

* In The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of " Baltimore Town " and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time published in 1874, John Thomas Scharf cited the 1873 instruction letter to the hospital trustees and a city council resolution thanking Johns Hopkins for his philanthropy.

On June 29, 1873, the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel through Baltimore was completed.

The Union Railroad ( Baltimore ) line opened on July 24, 1873.

: Bayview Yard to Baltimore Union Station: Union Railroad opened 1873.

Founded in 1873, it was originally distinct from the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

* The Johns Hopkins University from 1873 to 1893, Baltimore, 1893

He continued his studies at Niagara University ( 1871-1872 ) and at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1873, but had to leave the seminary and return home to help finish raising his siblings, due to the death of his father.

The American railway mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828 and flourished until the Panic of 1873 bankrupted many companies and temporarily ended all growth.

At that time, there was no direct rail connection between the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad's President Street Station and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Camden Station ( ten blocks to the west ) and would not be until the opening of the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel in 1873.

In 1873 the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad's branch over the Long Bridge opened, giving a route into Washington, D. C., over which the A & W obtained trackage rights.

In 1873 Thurman crafted a strategy that led to Ohio choosing once more a Democratic legislature, and electing Thurman's uncle William Allen as governor.

In 1873, more than 80 years after Congress offered it to the nation's state lawmakers, the Ohio General Assembly ratified the compensation amendment as a means of protest against the " Salary Grab Act ".

He helped complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to the Ohio River in 1873.

Originally organized on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio, and officially declared at a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874.

It was named for Mr. Rumely, who settled here from Ohio about 1873.

Founded in 1873 as an iron and coal producing center, the city was named after founder Harvey Wells, a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention.

Chesapeake was incorporated in 1949 and named for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which has served the community since 1873.

Cehen says in the early 1870s, a young civil engineer named William Nelson Page came to West Virginia to help survey and build Collis P. Huntington's C & O railroad through the valleys of the New River and the Kanawha River to link Virginia with the Ohio River, a line which was completed in 1873 at the new city of Huntington.

Salmon Portland Chase ( January 13, 1808May 7, 1873 ) was an American politician and jurist who served as U. S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio ; as U. S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln ; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States.

* Edes, Richard S. and Darlington, William M .: Journal and Letters of Col. John May, Robert Clarke and Co, Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1873 ), pp. 70 – 1.

After teaching at Hopkins Grammar School from 1872 – 73, he engaged in study and private teaching in Columbus, Ohio, 1873 – 74, then served as principal of Lancaster ( Ohio ) High School 1874-75.

The C & O, completed in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of Virginians of a rail link from the James River at Richmond to the Ohio River Valley.

He returned to Ohio after 18 months and moved back to Arkansas by 1870. 2004 Furbush was elected to two terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1873 – 74 ( Phillips County ) and 1879 – 80 ( Lee County ).

His family moved to Oberlin, Ohio in 1873.

The origins of the URJ began with the founding of the UAHC by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1873, based at Cincinnati, Ohio.

Following the war, he represented Ohio in the U. S. Congress from 1868 to 1873.

Myers Young Cooper ( November 25, 1873 – December 6, 1958 ) was a Republican politician from Ohio.

Pattison briefly served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1873 before working as an executive at an insurance company.

* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

As a result of the Panic of 1873 Jay Gould was able to pick up bargains, among them the control of the Union Pacific Railroad and Western Union also fell under his control.

During the Panic of 1873, a number of railroads, including the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ( StP & P ), had gone bankrupt.

The area around the Rock Creek basin where Kensington is located was primarily agricultural until 1873, when the B & O Railroad completed the Metropolitan Branch which traversed Montgomery County.

In 1873 the B & O Railroad constructed a station at Gaithersburg, designed by Ephraim Francis Baldwin as part of his well-known series of Victorian stations in Maryland.

The Memphis and Paducah Railroad completed the tracks to Covington in July 1873.

The Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad reached Clark County in 1873, followed by the Kentucky Central in 1881, and the Kentucky Union ( later abandoned ) in 1883.

The state of Kansas granted the Atchison and Topeka Railroad three million acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of land if it would build a continuous line to the western border of the state within ten years ( March 1, 1873 ).

In 1873, Cullmann negotiated an agreement to act as agent for a tract of land owned by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, on which he established a colony for German immigrants.

In 1873 the Savannah and Memphis Railroad came to the city.

When the St. Louis-Iron Mountain Railroad pushed lines into northern Arkansas in 1873 a station was established called Grey's Station.

The city of Prescott was platted in 1873, during construction of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad.

Kingsburg was established as a railroad town, its site set by the Central Pacific Railroad when it completed the Valley Line in 1873.

The Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad ( later the Lake Erie and Western, then New York Central ) reached Mulberry around 1873 ; the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern interurban line also serviced the town in the early 1900s.

The first individuals to own the land upon which Basehor now stands were Thomas S. and Mary Z. Townest ( though William Henery Lewis, who surveyed for the Railroad, bought an exstensive plot on land to the northeast of Basehor around 1861 and homsteaded it right after the civil war ) The couple bought it from the railroad in 1873 and mortgaged it to Ephraim Basehor the same year.

* Gilchrist was a station on the Michigan Lake Shore Railroad located between Dunningville and Hamilton in 1873 and on successor railways.

After a spur of the Ann Arbor Railroad came through, the area incorporated into a village in 1873.

In 1873, G. W. Reese brought the Detroit & Bay City Railroad through the town.

Grosse Ile was directly connected to the mainland of Michigan during 1873 when the Canada Southern Bridge Company, a subsidiary of the Canada Southern Railroad Company, established a railroad to the island which carried both passengers and freight.

In 1873 the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad named its new train station there " Friend.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad ran through Trumansburg between 13 September 1873 and October 1962, when the portion south to Ithaca was abandoned and most of the easements sold to the New York Gas & Electric Company ( NYSEG ).