Famous Weddings
Kit Carson
Feb 6 American Frontiersman Kit Carson (33) weds Mexican socialite Josefa Jaramillo (14) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, in Taos, Mexico
- Apr 23 Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and educator, marries Julia Ward, American poet and author
John A. Macdonald
Sep 1 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark
Mary Baker Eddy
Dec 10 Author and religious leader Mary Baker Eddy (22) weds building contractor George Washington Glover (32) in Tilton, New Hampshire
David Farragut
Dec 26 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (42) weds Virginia Loyall
