Several people die and much grain is destroyed.
The prices soon rise again. Mar 18 Future Buffalo mayor and U. S. President Stephen Grover Cleveland is born in Caldwell, New Jersey, to Congregationalist minister the Reverend Richard Falen Cleveland and Anne Neal Cleveland. Naturalist John Burroughs is born near Roxbury. May 10 New York banks suspend specie payment, precipitating a financial panic in the U. S. and seven years of a depression. The first train leaves Rochester for Churchville, Bergen, Byron and finally Batavia, where its passengers are treated to a dinner at the Eagle Hotel, before making the return rail trip to Rochester.