List of events
Map of Henry Schoolcraft 's route in 1831 showing Ojibwe settlements and roads (NAID 102278798) Events from the year 1831 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] January–March [ edit ] April–June [ edit ] July–September [ edit ] October–December [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] James A. Garfield January 2 – Justin Winsor , historian and librarian (died 1897 ) January 14 – William D. Washburn , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1889 to 1895 and businessman (died 1912 ) January 15 – Ozora P. Stearns , U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1871 (died 1896 ) January 26 – Mary Mapes Dodge , children's writer (died 1907 ) February 23 – Elizabeth Litchfield Cunnyngham , missionary and church worker (died 1911 ) March 3 – George Pullman , inventor and industrialist (died 1897 ) March 6 – Philip Sheridan , general (died 1888 ) March 12 – Clement Studebaker , automobile pioneer (died 1901 ) March 14 – Edward A. Perry , Governor of Florida (died 1889) March 20 – Solomon L. Spink , U.S. Congressman from Illinois (died 1881 ) May 16 – Daniel Manning , businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (died 1887 ) June 1 or 29 {exact date unknown) – John Bell Hood , Confederate general (died 1879 ) July 5 – Cordelia A. Greene , physician, reformer, benefactor (died 1905 ) July 8 – John Pemberton , inventor of Coca-Cola (died 1888 ) July 21 – Martha Maxwell , naturalist and artist (died 1881) August 26 – Lucy Hayes , First Lady of the United States as wife of Rutherford B. Hayes (died 1889) September 3 – States Rights Gist , lawyer, militia general in South Carolina and Confederate Army brigadier general (died 1864 ) September 10 – William A. Peffer , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1891 to 1897 (died 1912) September 20 – Kate Harrington , poet, teacher and writer (died 1917 ) September 29 – John Schofield , general (died 1906 ) October 15 – Helen Hunt Jackson , poet, writer and activist (died 1885 ) October 16 – Lucy Stanton , abolitionist (died 1910 ) October 28 – Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. , Georgia politician, attorney, historian and folklorist (died 1893 ) October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh , paleontologist (died 1899 ) October 31 – Romualdo Pacheco , Governor of California (died 1899) November 19 – James A. Garfield , 20th president of the United States from March to September 1881 (died 1881 ) November 21 – John Franklin Miller , U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (died 1886 ) November 22 – Thomas J. Latham , lawyer and businessman (died 1911 ) December 19 – Bernice Pauahi Bishop , Hawaiian aliʻi (died 1884 ) James Monroe See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Sellers, J. B. (2014). History of the University of Alabama: Volume One 1818, 1902 . United States: University of Alabama Press. p. 51. External links [ edit ]