A later owner of Chatham, Hannah Coulter, who acquired the plantation in the 1850s, tried to free her slaves through her will upon her death.

Staunton was the owner and editor of the magazine until the early 1850s, when he sold it to R. B.

Bishop Henry baptizes the Finns at the spring of Kuppis, a pseudohistorical painting by R. W. Ekman from the 1850s in Turku cathedral.

During the 1850s and 1860s most stations were constructed according to one or two stock designs prepared by the railway's engineers R. Jacomb-Hood or F. D.

Most importantly, in the 1850s, R. Shalom Shachne Yellin sent his son in law, Moses Joshua Kimchi, to Aleppo, to copy information about the Codex ; Kimchi sat for weeks, and copied thousands of details about the codex into the margins of a small handwritten Bible.

* Alfred R. Gaul 1850s

Clover Creek was used in the 1850s by the firm of Cherry & Johnson, J. R. Johnson and W. F.

By the 1850s, slavery was still legal in the southern United States, but had been generally outlawed in the northern states, such as Illinois.

Throughout the 1850s, Lincoln doubted the prospects of civil war, and his supporters rejected claims that his election would incite secession.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

Slavery was the central source of escalating political tension in the 1850s.

Despite compromises in 1820 and 1850, the slavery issues exploded in the 1850s.

Meanwhile the South of the 1850s saw an increasing number of slaves leave the border states through sale, manumission and escape.

Most of the political battles in the 1850s focused on the expansion of slavery, since most assumed that if slavery could not expand, it would wither and die.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

Throughout 1840s and the 1850s settlers continued to come to Ann Arbor.

The similar Murray Hill Tunnel on the New York and Harlem Railroad was built as an open cut around 1836, and roofed over around the 1850s, and is in use for automobile traffic.

However, in the 1850s the traffic changed dramatically, and Aberdour Harbour became a popular destination for pleasure steamers from Leith.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

An American missionary in the 1850s reported a population of under 4, 000, nearly all of whom belonged to the Greek Church.

This allowed ministries led by Russell, Palmerston and the Peelite Lord Aberdeen to hold office for most of the 1850s and 1860s.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

A large number of bunyip sightings occurred during the 1840s and 1850s, particularly in the southeastern colonies of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, as European settlers extended their reach.

A relationship between mania and melancholia had long been observed, although the basis of the current conceptualisation can be traced back to French psychiatrists in the 1850s.

The architecture of the new house is considered to be somewhat dated for its time, being similar in style to the demolished castle of the 1830s, in contrast to the richer forms of Scots Baronial being developed by William Burn and others during the 1850s.

During the 1850s, new plantations were established around the house, and exotic conifers were planted in the grounds.

In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by A. H. Layard and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

A thriving mining camp on rich Pennsylvania Gulch in the 1850s and 1860s, the camp was named for Alfred Brown, former owner of Table Mountain Ranch.

" In the 1850s the abolitionist John Brown kept a store of weapons in Tabor, and met here with other supporters to plan his raids in Kansas and Virginia, including the Raid on Harpers Ferry.

The first classes of Almira College in the 1850s were held in John Brown White's home, which is called the Almira College House and houses Bock's sculptures.

The Cove Island Light, located near Tobermory is one of the six famous " Imperial " lighthouses built in the 1850s by John Brown which can be found on the mainland and on nearby islands of the northern Bruce Peninsula.

When Hugh Brown started farming there were still wild cattle roaming the swamplands from the original squatting days of the later 1830s to the 1850s.

The six houses created in 1909 were: School House, for boarders, ( which, due to common usage, changed to Whiteladies, as this was the building in which the boarders lived ); Temple ( after Henry Temple, headmaster 1850s ); Tudor ( after Elizabeth I ); Woolfe ( after Richard Woolfe, benefactor 1877 ); Wylde ( after Thomas Wylde, benefactor 1558 ); and Yewle ( after Robert Yewle, Six Master 1561 ). In 1963 two additional houses were created by the then headmaster Godfrey Brown, namely Langley ( after William Langley, Six Master 1561 ) and Moore ( after John Moore, benefactor 1626 ).

But expansion proceeded apace throughout the 1850s at a rate of several chapters per year: Epsilon was chartered at Brown University and Rho ( later re-chartered as Rho Epsilon ) at Harvard University in 1852 ; Psi ( later re-chartered as Psi Epsilon ) at Dartmouth College in 1853 ; Kappa at Tufts University in 1855 ; Theta at Union College in 1856 ; Tau at Lafayette College in 1857 ; Xi at University of Michigan in 1858.

Brown paid a visit to Brownlow, with whom he had campaigned throughout the 1850s, and appealed for clemency on Harris's behalf.

Perhaps because of the rising social tensions in the 1850s, Brown became a proponent of African-American emigration to Haiti, an independent black republic in the Caribbean since 1804.

In the 1850s, under Louis Chamerovzow, the society helped John Brown write and publish his autobiography a decade before the American Civil War ended slavery in the United States.

During the 1850s, Kenneth Brown spent most of his time at Glengarry.

In the 1850s, coal-mining claims were made on Sehome Hill and two coal scouts named Henry Hewitt and William Brown who were working for Henry Roeder's lumber mill found coal.