Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".

* Obituary: " Andrew Johnson Dead ", New York Times, 1 August 1875

* John W. Brown ( New York politician ) ( 1796 – 1875 ), U. S. representative ( JD – NY, 1833 – 1837 )

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

* Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament ( 4 vols., 1875 )

* 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.

* Monk Eastman ( 1875 – 1920 ), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang

It has been in practice in all Australian states and in New Zealand since between 1858 and 1875, has more recently been extended to strata title, and has been adopted by many states, provinces and countries, and in modified form in 9 states of the USA.

In 1869, Genesee College obtained New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima got a court injunction to block the move, and Genesee stayed in Lima until it was dissolved in 1875.

* Bohemia: 11 December 1875, New Czech Theatre, Prague

In 1875 the Longstreet family left New Orleans with concerns over health and safety, returning to Gainesville, Georgia.

In response, Bergh himself, along with Elbridge T. Gerry and John D. Wright, formed the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NYSPCC ) in 1875.

As a reform-spirited Governor in 1875, he turned his attention to a second set of plunderers, the “ Canal Ring ”, made up of members of both parties who had been systematically robbing New York State by overcharging of the canal works.

It continued to be a staple of New York's theatre scene all the way until 1875.

New laws in 1875 prohibited press criticism of the government or discussion of national laws.

When Grey was appointed Governor of New Zealand, he presented his collection to the South African Public Library on condition that Bleek be its curator, a position he occupied from 1862 until his death in 1875.

After several weeks in Hong Kong, the expedition departed in early January 1875 to retrace their route south-east towards New Guinea.

By March 1875, the expedition had reached the Admiralty Islands north-east of New Guinea.

The county was formed in 1875 from New Hanover County.

Finally, in 1875 the separation of northern New Hanover County to form Pender County reduced it to its present dimensions.

* Jeptha D. New, U. S. Representative from Indiana, 1875 – 1877, 1879 – 1881

Pacific Grove was founded in 1875 by a group of Methodists who modeled the town after Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

The town was founded in 1875 and named New Jerusalem, California, by Simon Cohn ( 1852 – 1936 ), a Prussian Jewish merchant who owned a general store at the location.

In 1875 the town was renamed Callender in honor of Agnes and James Callender of Brooklyn Heights, New York.

Rose City began as the town of Churchill in 1875, when Allen S. Rose moved to Michigan from New York State and built a general store.

The train station, constructed in 1875 by the New York and Long Branch Railroad, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Tents and an open-air wooden shelter, or tabernacle, were erected in the 1870s, for the trainloads of visitors arriving by the New York and Long Branch Railroad after 1875.

The Morris Canal, although going into a rapid decline, still employed a number of men ; the Lackawanna Railroad, which had completed its Boonton-Paterson branch in 1875, gave employment to a number of Boonton people and provided commuter service to a number of Boonton residents who worked in New York City.

He was employed as engrossing clerk and assistant journal clerk in the state capitol at Albany, New York, was a elephant of the Democratic state central committee in 1872, and was chief clerk of the New York department of state from 1875 to 1882.

* Robert S. Hale, U. S. Representative from New York, December 3, 1866 to March 3, 1867 and March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875

The town of Amenia traces its roots to a group of wealthy New England investors from the villages of Amenia, New York and Sharon, Connecticut which formed the Amenia and Sharon Land Company and, in July 1875, under the representation of Eben W. Chaffee, purchased of land from the then bankrupt Northern Pacific Railroad.

* John Williams ( Rochester, NY ) ( 1807 – 1875 ), U. S. Representative from New York

While visiting relatives in Brooklyn, New York City, he spent a month in the studio of John Quincy Adams Ward, then began to work on commissions, and at the age of 23 received from the town of Concord an order for his well-known statue The Minute Man, which was unveiled April 19, 1875, on the centenary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

He began tattooing in New York around 1875.

Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others founded the Theosophical Society on 17 November 1875 in New York City.

Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others founded the Theosophical Society on 17 November 1875 in New York City.

In 1875, Olcott, Blavatsky, and others, notably William Quan Judge, formed the Theosophical Society in New York City, USA.

* Hungary: 10 April 1875, Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest

State provisions applied to all voters and were upheld by the Supreme Court in early litigation, from 1875 ( United States v. Cruikshank ) through 1904.

** Rafai ca. 1875 Sultanate, 8 April 1892 under Congo Free State protectorate, March 31, 1909 under French protectorate ; 1939 Sultanate suppressed

Dissatisfied with the pace of reform after having rejoined the Council of State in 1875, Itagaki organized his followers and other democratic proponents into the nationwide Aikokusha ( Society of Patriots ) to push for representative government in 1878.

In 1875 the State of Florida sent Capt.

* Hal H. Coffel ( 1875 – 1936, buried IOOF Cemetery ) Local ornithologist and lecturer for the Indiana State Conservation Commission.

* James D. Porter, Jr. — Judge of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 1870-1874, Tennessee governor 1875 – 1879, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company 1880-1884, Assistant Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland 1885-1887, Minister to Chile under President Grover Cleveland 1893-1895, Chancellor of the University of Nashville 1901, President of Peabody Normal College 1902, later President of those two schools ' merging ( George Peabody College ) until 1909

The Liberty Observer was first published in 1870, the Star State was first published in 1875, and the Vindicator in 1887.

Carnarvon, in an attempt to extend British influence in 1875 approached the Boer states of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic and tried to organize a federation of the British and Boer territories but the Boer leaders turned him down.

He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879.

Amongst his economic works may be mentioned Money and the Mechanism of Exchange ( 1875 ), written in a popular style, and descriptive rather than theoretical, but wonderfully fresh and original in treatment and full of suggestiveness, a Primer on Political Economy ( 1878 ), The State in Relation to Labour ( 1882 ), and two works published after his death, namely, Methods of Social Reform and Investigations in Currency and Finance, containing papers that had appeared separately during his lifetime.

* William J. Johnson ( 1821 – 1875 ), New York State Senator and Civil War colonel

In June 1875, Louis Wagner (" the Smuttynose Axe Murderer "), alongside John True Gordon (" the Thorndike Slayer "), were hung on the gallows of the Maine State Prison of Thomaston.

* SS Pacific, an ocean liner that sank off the coast of Washington State in 1875

While employed at the State School, Isaacs had his first experience of the Law, as an unsuccessful litigant in an 1875 County Court case.

In a political career spanning over 50 years, he was thrice Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, led the Liberal Party in the House of Lords for almost 30 years and was joint Leader of the Liberal Party between 1875 and 1880.

The two predecessor organisations were Königlich Akademischen Hochschule für ausübende Tonkunst ( Royal Academy of Musical Performing Art ) established in 1869 under Joseph Joachim, which also had adopted the tradition of the famous Stern Conservatory, and the Berlin State School of Fine Arts founded in 1875.

In 1875 Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon, in an attempt to extend British influence, approached the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic and tried to organise a federation of the British and Boer territories to be modelled after the 1867 federation of French and English provinces of Canada, however the Boer leaders turned him down.

Although a number of historians state that the existence of slavery was an appeal, Alcides Gussi, an independent researcher of State University of Campinas, found that only four families owned a total of 66 slaves from 1868 to 1875.

In 1872, less than a decade after he began to practice law, the Connecticut legislature elected him one of a commission of five that made the Revision of 1875, the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut.