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1887 deaths: Encyclopedia - William A. Wheeler

William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819–June 4, 1887) was a Representative from New York and the nineteenth Vice President of the United States. Wheeler was born in Malone, New York, and attended Franklin Academy and the University of Vermont. He was admitted to the bar in 1845, practiced law in Malone, and served as district attorney for Franklin County from 1846 to 1849. He was a member of the NY State Assembly in 1850 and 1851 and member of the state Senate from 1858 to 1860. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seven ...

1887 deaths: Encyclopedia - Johann Jakob Bachofen

The Swiss anthropologist and sociologist Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815 – 1887), is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World. This presented a radically new view of the role of women in a broad range of ancient societies. Bachofen assembled documentation meant to demonstrate that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum an ...

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1887 deaths: Encyclopedia - Valentine Aker Pasha Baker

Valentine Aker Pasha Baker (1827—1887), British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker. He was educated at Gloucester and in Ceylon, and in 1848 entered the Ceylon Rifles as an ensign. Soon transferred to the 12th Lancers, he saw active service with that regiment in the Kaffir War of 1852—1853. In the Crimean War Baker was present at the Battle of Chernaya River and at the fall of Sevastopol, and in 1859 he became major in the 10th Hussars, succeeding only a year later to the command. This position he held for thirteen ...

1887 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Doc Holliday - Doc's Record of Violence

The real Holliday was more complex than Wyatt's summary. Holliday may have been quick with a pistol, but his accuracy was not perfect, and in his four known pistol uses in single combat, he shot one opponent in the arm (Billy Allen), one across the scalp (Charles White), and missed one man (a saloon keeper named Charles Austin) entirely. In an incident in Tombstone in 1880, a drunken Holliday managed to shoot Oriental Saloon owner Milt Joyce in the hand, and his bartender Parker in the toe (neither was the original intended target). For this ...

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