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Quotes About 1831

The Le Havre, the ship carrying Tocqueville and Beaumont, arrived in the United States, in Newport, Rhode Island, on May 10, 1831. The following day they took a steamship to New York City.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The
~ George Eliot
Way back in 1831, Michael Faraday, one of the founders of our modern understanding of electromagnetism, was asked by an inquiring politician about the usefulness of this newfangled "electricity" stuff. His apocryphal reply: "I know not, but I wager that one day your government will tax it".
~ Sean Carroll
The first recorded U.S. bank robbery, actually a nighttime burglary, came in 1831, when a man named Edward Smith snuck into a Wall Street bank and made off with $245,000. He was caught and sentenced to a five-year term in Sing Sing.
~ Bryan Burrough
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
~ Ezra Cornell
Virginia law, in 1831, is instructive and representative.
~ Toni Morrison
Edgar Allan Poe would go so far as to volunteer to fight with the Poles in their 1831 uprising against the Russians.
~ Unknown