Seminary, which will later become Mount Holyoke College. John Deere (inventor) begins his agricultural implement manufacturing business, John Deere, in Grand Detour, Illinois. The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in Boston. 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 Second Seminole War (1835–1842) 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 Mary Frances McCray, church founder, leader and preacher (died 1898) Washington Roebling, civil engineer (died 1926) May 27 – James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, gunfighter (killed 1876) May 28 Samuel D. McEnery, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1897 to 1910 (died 1910) Tony Pastor, impresario and theater owner (died 1908) June 22 Paul Morphy, chess player (died 1884) Touch the Clouds, Native American Miniconjou chief 7 feet tall (died 1905) June 25 – Charles Yerkes, financier of rapid transit systems in Chicago and London (died 1905) July 1 – Henry Rathbone, military officer and diplomat (died 1911 in Germany) July 21 – Helen Appo Cook, African American community activist (died 1913) July 22 – George N. Bliss, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1928) 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 Joaquin Miller, born Cincinnatus Heine Miller, "Poet of the Sierras" (died 1913) Raphael Pumpelly, geologist and explorer (died 1923) 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