Quote of the day
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Born: September 27, 1824
Died: November 26, 1896 (aged 72)
Bio: Benjamin Apthorp Gould was a pioneering American astronomer. He is noted for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service.
Known for:
- The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (1895)
- Ages of U. S. Volunteer Soldiery (1866)