What Happened on October 11, 1809

Famous Birthdays

Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist and lecturer, born in Cohocton, New York (d. 1887)

Famous Deaths

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)

American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand