In Hawaii sugar planters bring over the first Chinese laborers on 3 or 5 year contracts, giving them 3 dollars per month plus room and board for working a 12-hour day, 6 days a week.
June 8 – Perry Smith, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1837 to 1843 (born 1783)
June 17 – William King, merchant, shipbuilder, army officer and statesman (born 1768)
June 29 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky 1806–1807, 1810–1811, 1831–1842 and 1849–1852 (born 1777)
July 19 – John McKinley, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1826 to 1831 and in 1837, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1852 (born 1780)
^King, William T. (1896). History of the American Steam Fire-Engine.
^Settlers met at Monticello to sign a petition asking Congress to create a separate territory north of the Columbia River. Washington Secretary of State.
^"Bibliography". American Poetry Full-Text Database. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
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