His grandfather and namesake was a Minorcan descendant born in St. Augustine, Florida, who led the U. S. Army Ordnance Corps, 1874 – 1891, with the rank of brigadier general ; he was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and served in the American Civil War.

* Extract of Ordnance Survey First Edition Map, 1874, showing Wood Lane

From 1864 and 1874 Palmer served with the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.

In addition, he was instrumental in the development of Harvard's science curriculum, served as the college librarian, and was director of the U. S. Coast Survey from 1867 to 1874.

In 1874 Cope was employed with the Wheeler Survey, a group of surveys led by George Montague Wheeler that mapped parts of the United States west of the 100th meridian.

He was assigned to the Coast Survey in 1874 and commanded the Coast Survey steamer Blake 1875-1878.

In 1874 Sir George Mercer Dawson discovered western Canada's first dinosaur remains in the Killdeer Badlands during the International Boundary Survey.

Josiah Dwight Whitney ( 1819 – 1896 ) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University ( from 1865 ), and chief of the California Geological Survey ( 1860 – 1874 ).

Although the California Geological Survey ceased work when funds were eliminated, Whitney managed to retain the title of state geologist until 1874.

In 1874 aboard the Coast and Geodetic Survey schooner Yukon, he anchored in Lituya Bay, which he compared to Yosemite Valley ( California ), had it retained its glaciers.

He then joined the Powell Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region in 1874, becoming Powell's primary assistant, and stayed with the survey until 1879.

* USCS McArthur, a survey ship in service in the United States Coast Survey from 1876 to 1878 and as USC & GS McArthur ( 1874 ) in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1915

He worked for the California Geological Survey ( 1860 – 1874 ) with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henry Nicholas Bolander.

In 1874 he retired from the Geological Survey, having been appointed professor of geology in the Yorkshire College at Leeds ; in 1885 he became also professor of mathematics, while for many years he held the lectureship on geology at the school of military engineering at Chatham.

He was Victorian Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey from 1861 to 1874.

Summitpost notes that " the first recorded ascent of Blanca by the Wheeler Survey was recorded on August 14, 1874, but to their surprise they found evidence of a stone structure possibly built by Ute Indians or wandering Spaniards.

In 1874 the Survey was officially ended due to hostility between then Governor of California Newton Booth and Whitney.

Prince Edward Island map 1874

On September 25, 1874, the original subdivision or plat map of the village was filed by the Hopkins family members including George W. Hopkins, Ella Hopkins, David H. Hopkins, Maurice M. Hopkins, and Mattie E. " Martha " Hopkins.

" An 1874 map of the village of Geddes shows that many streets were named after fruits and nuts including Banana Street ( Avoca Street ), Filbert Street ( Avery Avenue ), Quince Street ( Willis Avenue ), Pear Street ( Milton Avenue ), Chestnut Street ( North Lowell Avenue ) and Orchard Street ( Emerson Avenue ).

An 1874 map shows the site of Machu Picchu.

By 1868 his map of the Moon was almost ready, although he did not put the finishing touches to it until 1874.

In 1874 he again published an overview map of the Arctic scale 1: 16, 000, 000 now with all the routes from 1616 to the end of 1874, complemented with the new meteorological weather stations.

In 1874 Payer ‘ viewed ’ land north of Franz-Joseph-Land and put it on the map under the designation ‘ Petermann Land ’.

Its present name first appeared on a local map in 1874.

When he accompanied the Custer expedition to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874, Winchell prepared the first geological map of that area.

He also published Bauriss des Klosters Sankt Gallen vom Jahr 820 ( 1844 ), and an archaeological map of Eastern Switzerland ( 1874 ).

An 1874 map extends them south from Dudley to just north of Forest Hills, and north to Dock Square.

1874 Pennsylvania Railroad map, including the PFW & C

An 1874 Crown map of Prince Edward Island, similar to those Kelly would examine as Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands.

In 1874, the area of Jerusalem gained a special status of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem.

This area was named for German doctor Carl Wernicke, who discovered it in 1874 in the course of his research into aphasias ( loss of ability to speak ).

The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874.

The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, housed in a Victorian Gothic building and opened in 1874, presents artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

* Kahkewistahaw, Chief of the Rabbit Skin Cree ( Wāpošwayānak ) and Saulteaux, signed in 15 September 1874 the Treaty 4, his tribal group was hunting in the area around Wood Mountain and the Cypress Hills and went back to the Qu ' Appelle Valley once a year to get their payments and gifts until a reserve was established in 1881 )

After the Qing government refused compensation stating that the aboriginals were not under its control, Japan launched a punitive expedition to the area in 1874, withdrawing after the Qing promised to pay an indemnity.

From 1837 to 1874, the area of modern Loving County was part of the Bexar land district.

The first settlement in the area followed in 1870, which resulted in the Red River War of 1874 and 1875 with the native Comanche and Kiowa tribes.

Until February 2, 1874, its boundaries included the area now comprising Summit County, Grand County, Routt County, Moffat County, Garfield County, Eagle County, and Rio Blanco County.

Five German families moved to the area in March 1873 ; in 1874, the town was incorporated and named after Colonel Cullmann.

Early settlers plow the road for Main StreetThe first general store was built in 1874 by Fredrick S. Stevens and Major Danilson after learning that a railroad was to be built in the area.

Beginning in 1874, Czech immigrants from Bohemia came to Wilson to work on the railroad, establishing the town as an area center of Czech culture.

What is now the Paducah and Louisville Railway built a station in the area in 1874, and a summer resort and hotel called Paine Hotel developed around a shaded ridge on Muldraugh Hill, what came to be called Pleasure Ridge.

From about 1787 until about 1874, when the area was known as Clowesville, the county seat of Queens County was located here, along with the county courthouse and jail.

Mr. Benson's purchase of a tract along the Smithfield-Fayetteville Road in 1874 initiated the settlement of the area now known as Benson.

Gold was discovered in the area around 1866, and by 1874 there were extensive gold mining operations in the province, particularly around the Little River area of Star.

One of these settlers was August Scherneckau, who came to the area after the Civil War, in 1874.

In 1837 the Cumberland Valley Railroad came through the area and in 1874 the borough was extended to include the homes and businesses that had grown up along the railroad.

In 1874 the settlement was renamed Wortham in honor of Col. Rice Wortham, a merchant who had been instrumental in convincing the railroad to build through the area.

The town's council was reorganized in 1874, and Refugio began to revive as it became a marketing and shipping center for the hides, wool, cotton, and livestock produced in the area.