1850

Fugitive Slave Law is passed September 18, 1850

Emigrant Savings Bank is founded September 30, 1850, by the Irish Emigrant Society

Henry Boynton Smith, Rev starts Professorship at Union Theological Seminary

Ferdinand De Wilton Ward Sr, Rev publishes his book India & the Hindoos

Charles J McCurdy appointed by Daniel Webster as the Charge de Affairs to the Austrian Empire

Lyman Beecher resigns as President of Lane Seminary

Charles Loring Brace visits Francis James Child in Germany, whom received an honorary degree from the University of Gottingen