Template:On this day/May 10

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May 10:

• 1871 – The adventurous Benjamin Franklin Ficklin died, but not from a bullet, arrow, or cannonball. Rather, a jagged fishbone lodged in his throat during dinner in Washington, D.C. Born in Albemarle County, Ficklin was a soldier, adventurer, and entrepreneur known for helping to establish the Pony Express and other stagecoach and mail routes in the United States during the nineteenth century. He was buried in Charlottesville's Maplewood Cemetery.