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(born 1796) March 28 – William S. Archer, United States Senator from Virginia from 1841 till 1847. (born 1789) May 7 – Walter T. Colquitt, United States Senator from Georgia from 1843 till 1848. (born 1799) June 29 – John Gorrie, physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian (born 1803)
1855 was a common year ... September 15 – Orishatukeh Faduma, Guyana-born African-American Christian missionary, educator and advocate for African culture (d. 1946)
Getty was born in 1855 in Allegany County, Maryland, to Martha Ann (Wily) and John Getty (1835-1861), who was the son of James Getty and the grandson of another John Getty, a Presbyterian Ulster Scots peasant who immigrated to America and claimed kinship with the namesake of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. [2]
Francis Julius Bellamy was born on May 18, 1855, in Mount Morris, New York to Rev. David Bellamy (1806–1864) and Lucy Clark. [2] His family was deeply involved in the Baptist church and both Francis and his father became ministers. The family moved to Rome, New York, when Francis was only 5. Here, Bellamy became an active member of the First ...
A. Oscar Aagaard; Herbert Abbott (British Army officer) Hakim Abdul Aziz; Lars Kristian Abrahamsen; Ernest F. Acheson; Eva Acke; William Hayes Ackland; George Adams (baseball)
William Cowper Brann (January 4, 1855 – April 2, 1898) was an American journalist also known as Brann the Iconoclast. During his life, he gained a reputation as a "brilliant though vitriolic editorialist." [1] He defended lynching Black men accused of rape and called for opponents of this type of mob violence to be castrated. [2]
Cartwright was born in 1820 to Alexander Cartwright Sr. (1784–1855), a merchant sea captain, and Esther Rebecca Burlock Cartwright (1792–1871). Alexander Jr. had six siblings. He first worked at the age of 16 in 1836 as a clerk for a Wall Street broker, later doing clerical work at the Union Bank of New York.
He was appointed brevet lieutenant-colonel on the day of the battle, and lieutenant-colonel on the 12 December following. Subsequently, he was present at Raglan's death on 28 June 1855. He received the Crimea Medal and the fifth-class Order of Medjidié on 2 March 1858, and in 1856 became aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge. [3]