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| South America & Caribbean:Railroad constructionin Panama to accommodate gold seekers.. | ||||||||||||
| North America:Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau: Government is best which governs least. Harriet Tubman begins work on underground railroad. California population will grow from 15,000 to 300,000 in the next seven years. Canadians consider annexation by U.S. as depression worsens in Great Britain. First successful power dam in Connecticut. First railroad reaches Chicago which will be connected by 10 in the next 20 years. St. Joseph, Missouri sees 50,000 transients as a gateway to California and norther terminus of steamships on the Missouri River. Elizabeth Blackwell is the first female medical school graduate. Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley by bridge builder Charles Ellet, Jr.; Henry David Thoreau; Edgar Allan Poe, who dies this year; music by Stephen Foster. Safety pin patented; Prefabricated cast iron and glass curtain wall construction in New York. U. S. Department of the Interior created, includes Patent Office and Indian Affairs. McCormick reapers sold on installment plans. Portable food - meat bisquit - developed in Texas for pioneers traveling west. Oregon apples sell well in California | ||||||||||||
| Europe: Revolution in Hungary continues the trend from last year, but fails after Russian troops are sent to help Austrian emperor Franz Josepf. Garibaldi returns to Italy from Uruguay, forms an army, but fails and travels to the United States where he becomes a citizen. He will return to Italy in 1856. Revolutions suppressed in Sardinia, Dresden and Baden. Cholera epidemic in London. British Parliament ends Navigation Act that restricted foreign shipping in British ports. Opera by Verdi, music by Liszt; Johann Strauss; Robert Schumann. Derby (bowler hat) popular in London with business men and foxhunters. Reinforced concrete construction in France. | ||||||||||||
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January 1849
January 12 Murphy James Foster is born near Franklin. This prominent St. Mary Parish plantation owner and lawyer of the reconstruction period will serve the people of Louisiana as: Louisiana State Senator (1880-1892) Thirty-first Governor (1892-1900) United States Senator (1900-1912). Albert Delpit is born on January 30, 1849 and baptized in November at what is now Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. His father, a Frenchman has a very successful tobacco shop at 525-535 St. Louis St. He was sent to school in France and after a short attempt to work in his fathers business returned to France determined to be a writer. He survived and served with distinction in the Franco-Prussian War and married a rich young widow in 1873. He was for a while secretary to Alexandré Dumas the Elder and learned a few tricks of the trade. He became a prolific and noted author, but became dependent on drugs in order to sleep. This lead to addiction and on January 4, 1893 his death due to an overdose. |
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March 21 New Orleans is visited by former President James Polk who finds the cuisine of Louisiana strange. |
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On November 15, 1849 the steamer Louisiana explodes while moored at the foot of Canal St. |
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Marshall Walker becomes Governor of Louisiana.
The Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba, now 54, returns to her birthplace after 38 years to escape the aftermath of the latest French revolution and to see to her estate. She is determined to beautify the Place d’Armes and to replace the two rows of buildings facing the square which her father had built more than fifty years before. Her first move was to ask the City Council for an exemption from building taxes for 20 years. Next she hired architect James Gallier to draw up plans. this arrangement lasted for a short time before she hired Henry Howard, an equally noted architect an for a contractor Samuel Stewart. The baroness was a terror who relentlessly badgered the architect, who made but $120 for his design and the contractor who made $10,000 less for the St. Ann row than for the St Peter buildings and had to sue her for extras that she demanded after the job was completed. She even pulled on pantaloons and climbed the ladders to make sure that she was not cheated on materials. She also asked for, and got, changes to the square, which was renamed Jackson Square at her insistence. |
John James Audubon publishes his first edition of Quadrupeds of North America 1849-1854 . |
When retail pioneer Daniel Henry Holmes moves to Canal St., his is the most impressive new store in town with a marble facade, big show windows, a huge elliptical glass dome and gothic decoration throughout. An immense French mirror at the rear of the store became a popular meeting place. |
Eliza Jane Poitevent (1849-1896) is born near Pearlington, Miss. in 1849. Her mother is too ill to care for her so she is raised by relatives in nearby Hobolochitto, Miss. She wrote poems under the pseudonym Pearl Rivers and they were accepted by national literary magazines as well as the Picayune. Col. Alva Morris Holbrook the editor of the Picayune was impressed by her works and asks her to accept the post of literary editor. The Colonel was a Beau Brummel type who changed his jewelry as often as he changed his ruffled shirts. He was about 40 years her senior but they marry in March of 1872. |
St. Basil’s Convent was built in 1849 as a large private home on La. 1 in Plaquemine, La. Seven years later it became a Catholic Convent operated by the Marionite order for well over a hundred years. Today the complex is a small hotel and elegant restaurant. | The famed ante-bellum mansion Afton Villa is built in 1849 by David Barrow, the wealthiest planter in West Feliciana Parish The Plantation house is destroyed by fire in 1963. The tomb of Alexander Barrow, U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1840s in the family cemetery. Murphy James Foster |
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