1851

Charles Greely Loring defends Thomas Sims & the Fugitive Slave Law in Federal Court

Charles Loring Brace is arrested in Hungary and only with help of

Charles J McCurdy, the US Ambassador to Hungary was able to help Charles Loring Brace escape his cell.

New York Juvenile Asylum is founded by William Charles Gilman, father of Daniel Coit Gilman

Five Points House of Industry is initially funded by the New York City Common Council.

Ann Arbor, MI is incorporated

Ferdinand De Wilton Ward Jr is born alive

Lyman Beecher moves to Boston, MA

George Peabody July 4, 1851 party

Jesse Root Grant become Mayor of Bethel, OH

John Hull Olmsted II & Mary Perkins Olmsted are Married October 16, 1851