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List of events
Events from the year 1839 in the United States .
Incumbents Events February 11 – The University of Missouri is established in Columbia, Missouri , becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River .
March 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville , Virginia .
March 7 – Baltimore City College , the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore , Maryland .
March 23 – The Boston Morning Post
August 8 – The Beta Theta Pi fraternity is founded in Oxford, Ohio .
September 9 – In the Great Fire of Mobile, Alabama hundreds of buildings are burned.
October – Robert Cornelius takes the first photographic self portrait in the United States.
November 11 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia .
November 27 – In Boston, Massachusetts , the American Statistical Association is founded.
Undated Ongoing Births February 9 – Laura Redden Searing , deaf poet and journalist (died 1923 )
March 9 – Phoebe Knapp , hymn writer (d. 1908 )
April 7 – David Baird , Ireland-born U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1918 to 1919 (died 1927 )
July 8 – John D. Rockefeller , oil industry business magnate and philanthropist (died 1937 )
August 1 – Middleton P. Barrow , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1882 to 1883 (died 1903 )
August 23 – George Clement Perkins , U.S. Senator from California from 1893 to 1915 (died 1923 )
August 26 – Hernando Money , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1897 to 1911 (died 1912 )
September 2 – Henry George , writer, politician and political economist (died 1897 )
September 18 – William J. McConnell , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1891 (died 1925 )
September 28 – Frances Willard , American educator, temperance reformer and women's suffragist (died 1898 )
September 29 – James Kimbrough Jones , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1885 to 1903 (died 1908 )
October 20 – Augustus Octavius Bacon , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1895 to 1914 (died 1914 )
November 4 – Thomas M. Patterson , Ireland-born U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1901 to 1907 (died 1916 )
December 5 – George Armstrong Custer , U.S. Army Officer and Cavalry Commander from Ohio from 1861 to 1876 (died 1876 )
December 12 – Caroline Ingalls (b. Caroline Lake Quiner), American pioneer, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (died 1924 ) Deaths January 14 – John Wesley Jarvis , portrait painter (born c.1781 in Great Britain )
February 26 – Sybil Ludington , heroine of the American Revolutionary War (born 1761 )
April 1 – Benjamin Pierce , governor of New Hampshire from 1827 to 1828 and from 1829 to 1830, father of 14th President of the United States Franklin Pierce (born 1757 )
April 2 – Hezekiah Niles , magazine publisher (born 1777 )
April 5 – John Tipton , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1832 to 1839 (born 1786 )
April 22 – Samuel Smith , U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1822 to 1833 (born 1752 )
May 11 – Thomas Cooper , political philosopher (born 1759 )
June 10 – Nathaniel Hale Pryor , sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (born 1772 )
July 16 – The Bowl (Di'wali ), Cherokee chief, shot (born c.1756 )
August 22 – Benjamin Lundy , abolitionist (born 1789 )
September 28 – William Dunlap , actor-manager, dramatist and painter (born 1766 )
December 4 – John Leamy , merchant (born 1757 in Ireland ) See also External links
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