Quarterman Dates:
February 8
1754: John Stevens and family, settle in Midway and Newport, Georgia.
1779: Rev. Allen drowned escaping from British,
1848: David Waters Sinclair d., Bangulpere, India
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Tomorrow:
February 9
1825: John Quincy Adams, U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams,
who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election,
as president.
Neither Adams nor Jackson enjoyed a majority of electoral votes in the
election of 1824.
1861: CSA Pres, VP, Jefferson Davis elected President and Alexander Stephens elected Vice President
of the Confederate States of America;
Stephens had a Sinclair grandmother.
1971: Apollo 14 returns, to Earth
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