This Day…

1874 –  John B. Jones becomes major in Texas Rangers

1927 The first federal prison for women opens

1881 – On the streets of Dodge City, famous western lawman and gunfighter Bat Masterson fights the last gun battle of his life.

1921 – Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.

1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk.

1843 Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born.

1902 – Esther Morris, the first woman judge in American history, dies in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

1888 – The National Council of Women of the U.S. is organized by Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sojourner Truth, among others, the oldest non-sectarian women’s organization in the U.S.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published and becomes the best-selling book of the 19th century.