What Happened in March 1855

Historical Events

Mar 11 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners

Mar 27 Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

Mar 1 Paul Hines, American MLB outfielder (Triple Crown 1878, Providence Grays), born in Virginia (d. 1935)
Mar 12 John White, American composer (d. 1902)
Mar 13 Percival "Percy" Lowell, American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1916)

Mar 24 Andrew Mellon, American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1947)

Mar 24 Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
Mar 27 Alfred Ewing, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis), born in Dundee, Angus, Scotland (d. 1935)
Mar 31 Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)

Mar 8 William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang, dies of a gunshot wound at 33

Mar 17 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, Spanish composer, dies at 65
Mar 20 Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
Mar 29 Henri Druey, Swiss politician and a founding father of constitutional democracy in Switzerland, dies at 55

Mar 31 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist (Jane Eyre), dies at 38