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* 1878 – James O. Richardson, American navy admiral ( d. 1974 )

* August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, America novelist and conservationist ( b. 1878 )

* February 13 – James Geiss, English businessman ( d. 1878 )

In 1878 James wrote with sadness about the lack of contemporary attention paid to Balzac, and lavished praise on him in four essays ( in 1875, 1877, 1902, and 1913 ).

In 1878 James wrote: " Large as Balzac is, he is all of one piece and he hangs perfectly together.

* James, Henry ( 1878 ).

Then, during the total solar eclipse of 29 July 1878, two experienced astronomers, Professor James Craig Watson, the director of the Ann Arbor Observatory in Michigan, and Lewis Swift, an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claimed to have seen a Vulcan-type planet close to the Sun.

For several years ( 1866 – 1878 ), James Clay allowed the mansion to be used as a residence for the regent of Kentucky University, forerunner of the University of Kentucky and present-day Transylvania University.

* Robert Havell, Jr. ( 1793 – 1878 ), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon ’ s monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the Hudson River School

In the summer of 1878, as an assistant marshal in Dodge City, Kansas, Wyatt Earp and Policeman James Masterson, together with several citizens, fired their pistols at several cowboys who were fleeing town after shooting up a theater.

For 40 years ( 1878 – 1918 ) the Scottish brothers James and Findlay Muirhead published the English-language Baedekers.

James published many stories before what would prove to be his greatest success with the readers of his time, " Daisy Miller " ( 1878 ).

* 1878 – 1895 James Allen

It was founded by Mormon settlers ( James Pearce ) in January 1878, several months before the neighboring community of Snowflake, Arizona.

The origin is The Anchorage, home of riverboat captain and early resident James W. Goslee, and was chosen to honor him when the city incorporated in 1878, three years after his death.

James N. Taylor, whom, according to the 1880 census was born in Virginia, served as postmaster from 1878 to at least 1883.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

In 1878, James L. Mills traversed the trail over the Cascade Mountains from Puget Sound by foot, and saw great possibilities in the Kittitas Valley.

Local legend states that Frank James and Big Nose George were hiding out along Little Goose Creek in 1878.

* Thomas B. Colbert, " Political Fusion in Iowa: The Election of James B. Weaver to Congress in 1878 ," Arizona and the West, vol.

* Henry James Montague ( 1840 – 1878 ), stage actor

* Watch and Ward, a short novel by Henry James first published as a serial in 1871 and later as a book in 1878

* James O. Richardson ( 1878 – 1974 ), admiral in the United States Navy prior to World War II

* Sir James Carter ( judge ) ( 1805 – 1878 ), British jurist in Canada

Pregnant with her second child, she gave birth to Michel Monet in March 1878.

In 1878, Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War ; the resulting Treaty of San Stefano gave Russia considerable influence in the Balkans.

In 1878, Topelius was allowed to withdraw from his professional duties, but this did not sever his connection with the university ; it gave him, however, more leisure for his abundant and various literary enterprises.

On January 14, 1878, Mrs. William Flemming, who was newly a widow, gave Dr. Carter the two lots south of his home site.

The research work which he began there contributed in an important degree to his election as a Fellow of Trinity in 1874 ; and also gave him the material for a series of papers ( published as a monograph in 1878 ) on the Elasmobranch fish, which threw new light on the development of several organs in the Vertebrates, in particular of the uro-genital and nervous systems.

The chorus of a song by G. H. MacDermott ( singer ) and G. W. Hunt ( songwriter ) commonly sung in British pubs and music halls around the time of the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) gave birth to the term.

At Stalybridge he gave his last performance on 8 June 1878, when he played Adonis Evergreen in his comedy My Awful Dad.

The May Laws ( Maigesetze ), or Falk Laws, of 1873 gave responsibility for the training and appointment of clergy to the state, which resulted in the closing of nearly half of the seminaries in Prussia by 1878.

In 1878 the German emperor named von der Tann honorary colonel of a Prussian infantry regiment, gave him a life pension, and named one of the new Strassburg forts after him.

In 1855, she gave birth to a healthy daughter, Margaret Howell ( 1855 – 1909 ); followed by two sons, Jefferson, Jr. ( 1857 – 1878 ) and Joseph Evan ( 1859 – 1864 ), during her husband's remaining tenure in Washington, D. C.

An order issued by the Vizier in 1878 gave Vlachs the right to be taught in their own language and afforded assistance and protection to their teachers.

A result of the uprisings and wars was the Berlin Congress in 1878, which gave Montenegro and Serbia independence and territorial expansion, while Austro-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina for 30 years, while being de jure Ottoman territory.

Luxton was not initially supportive of Premier Robert A. Davis ( 1874 – 1878 ), but endorsed the Davis ministry after brought John Norquay into cabinet ( Davis's early supporters were primarily from the francophone community, and Norquay's presence gave the ministry greater credibility among the anglophone population ).

In 1878, when Justice Serranus Clinton Hastings gave $ 100, 000 to the University of California to start the law school bearing his name, he imposed two conditions: the school must remain in San Francisco near the courts ; and it could not be governed by the Regents of the University of California.

These congregations were the culmination of Warner's desire for non-sectarian Holiness congregations, of which he had dreamed of since January 31, 1878 when he noted in his diary: " On the 31st of last January the Lord showed me that holiness could never prosper upon sectarian soil encumbered by human creeds and party names, and he gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living God.

In 1878 he gave up his duties as professor, which then fell to the most conspicuous of his pupils, Robert de Lasteyrie.

In 1878, he gave up operating, but for eight or 10 years longer, he still had a very heavy consulting practice.

Hartford stepped into the battle by asserting that, in 1878, Gilman gave him half of the company in a unwritten partnership agreement.

After the manuscript had been rejected by at least five publishers, Hardy gave up his attempts to sell the novel in its original form ; however, he incorporated some of its scenes and themes into later works, notably in the poem " The Poor Man and the Lady " and in the novella An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress ( 1878 ).

Maritime quarantine legislation ( Act of August 1, 1888 ) strengthened the Act of 1878, adding new Federal quarantine stations along the East and West coasts ; March 1891 legislation made medical inspection of immigrants part of MHS's duties ; and interstate quarantine legislation ( Act of March 27, 1890 ) gave MHS authority to establish quarantines against epidemic cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, and plague.

Israel Rosenberg's troupe ( which later had a series of managers, including Goldfaden's brother Tulya, and which at one point split in two, with one half led by actor Jacob Adler ) gave Russia's first professional Yiddish theater performance in Odessa in 1878.

Moore gave a second public performance in late 1878 at the same opera house.

As an exceptional favor the government in 1849 gave to Gedaliah Tiktin of Breslau the title of Landesrabbiner, which was interpreted as a manifestation of the government in favor of Orthodoxy and as a disapproval of the Reform movement ( L. Geiger, " Abraham Geiger's Leben in Briefen ", pp. 113 et seq., Berlin, 1878 ).

A year later in 1878 it acquired the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad which gave the Old Colony a connection with its original 1845 main line at Kingston.