Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary. The New Board brokerage group is founded in New York City. James Peter Allaire's company, the Howell Works, is at its peak. George Catlin ends his 6-year tour of 50 tribes in the Dakota Territory. Ongoing Second Seminole War (1835–1842) Births January 10 – Charles Ingalls, settler father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (died 1902) February 5 – William E. Miller soldier and Pennsylvania State Senator (died 1919) February 9 – Franklin B. Gowen, industrialist (died 1889) February 24 – Winslow Homer, landscape painter and printmaker (died 1910) February 27 – Russell A. Alger, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (died 1907) March 2 – John W. Foster, journalist and politician (died 1917) March 20 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., politician (died 1886) April 27 – Charles Bendire, U.S. Army officer and ornithologist (died 1897) May 23 – Touch the Clouds (Maȟpíya Ičáȟtagya), Native American chieftain of Teton Lakota Sioux (died 1905) May 27 – Jay Gould, railroad developer and speculator (died 1892) June 15 – George L. Shoup, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (died 1904) June 16 – Wesley Merritt, U.S. Army general (died 1910) June 28 – Lyman J. Gage, financier and Presidential Cabinet Officer (died 1927) June 29 – Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor and organ builder (died 1887) July 26 – Ellen Maria Colfax, wife of Schuyler Colfax, Second Lady of the United States (died 1911) August 5 – John T. Raymond, born John O'Brien, actor (died 1887) August 11 – Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, poet (died 1919) August 16 – John Peirce, inventor (died 1897) August 25 – Bret Harte, writer of fiction and poetry (died 1902) September 10 – Joseph Wheeler, U.S. Army general and politician (died 1906) September 11 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, writer (died 1870) September 18 – William Jackson Palmer, railroad civil engineer, Union Army general, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1909) November 1 – George E. Spencer, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1868 to 1879 (died 1893) November 8 – Milton Bradley, game pioneer and businessman (died 1911) November 11 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, editor, poet and novelist (died 1907) December 19 – Maria Sanford, American educator (died 1920) Deaths January 30 – Betsy Ross, flagmaker (born 1752) February 18 – Cornplanter (Gaiänt'wakê), Seneca chief (b. 1750) February 23 – Ezra Ames, portrait painter (born 1768) March 6 (at the