Through The Years
In the U.S. in 1840, President Martin Van Buren, the country’s eighth president, served his final days in office and was succeeded by Whig Party nominee William Henry Harrison. The Civil War wouldn’t begin for 21 more years. Across the pond, Queen Victoria wed Prince Albert, and later that year, welcomed their first child, also named Victoria. And in Sprinklesburgh, Indiana, (which would become known as Newburgh the year following) four lots were purchased by merchant and contractor A.M. Phelps.