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Events from the year 1837 in the United States .
Incumbents Events March 4: Martin Van Buren becomes President January 1 - Don's Rok founded.
January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana .
January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state (see History of Michigan ).
February 4 - Seminoles attack Fort Foster .
February 8 - Richard Johnson becomes the only Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate .
February 15 - Knox College founded in Galesburg , Illinois .
February 25
March - Victor Séjour 's short story "Le Mulâtre ", the earliest known work of African American fiction, is published in the French abolitionist journal Revue des Colonies .
March 4
May 10 - Panic of 1837 : New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
June 5 - Houston, Texas , is granted a city charter .
June 11 - The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts , fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
July - Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison . In the Morrison incident , he is turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
October - First publication of the The United States Magazine and Democratic Review [2]
October 21 - General Thomas Jessup captures Osceola in pretext of negotiations.
November 7 - In Alton, Illinois , abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob while he attempts to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
November 8 - Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which will later become Mount Holyoke College .
The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in Boston .[3]
John Greenleaf Whittier 's first poetry book, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States , is published by Boston abolitionists.Ongoing Births January 9 – Julius C. Burrows , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1895 to 1911 (died 1915 )
January 19 – William Williams Keen , brain surgeon (died 1932 )
February 5 – Dwight L. Moody , evangelist (died 1899 )
March 1 – William Dean Howells , writer, historian, editor and politician (died 1920 )
March 7 – Henry Draper , physician and astronomer (died 1882 )
March 18 – Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th President of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897 (died 1908 )
March 27 – Kate Fox , medium (died 1892 )
April 3 – John Burroughs , nature writer (died 1921 )
April 10 – (Byron) Forceythe Willson , poet (died 1867 )
April 17 – J. P. Morgan , financier (died 1913 in Italy )
May 26 – Washington Roebling , civil engineer (died 1926 )
May 27 – James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok , gunfighter (killed 1876 )
May 28
June 22
June 25 – Charles Yerkes , financier of rapid transit systems in Chicago and London (died 1905)
July 31 – William Quantrill , Confederate leader during the American Civil War (died 1865 )
August 30 – Nell Arthur , wife of Chester A. Arthur (died 1880 )
September 2 – James H. Wilson , Union Army general in the Civil War (died 1925 )
September 8
October 10 – Robert Gould Shaw , Union Army general in the Civil War and reformer (killed in action 1863 )
October 12 – Preston B. Plumb , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (died 1891 )
October 29 – Harriet Powers , African American folk artist (died 1910 )
November 20 – Lewis Waterman , inventor and businessman (died 1901 )
November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt , inventor and industrial chemist (died 1920 )
December 10 – Edward Eggleston , novelist and historian (died 1902 )
December 15 – George B. Post , architect (died 1913 )
December 26
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