1888 in the United States explained
Events from the year 1888 in the United States.
Incumbents
Morrison Waite (Ohio) (until March 23)
Melville Fuller (Illinois) (starting October 8)
Events
- January 13 - The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- February 27 - In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.
- March 8 - The Agriculture College of Utah, (later Utah State University) is founded in Logan, Utah.
- March 11 - The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along the East Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- March 25 - Opening of an international Congress for Women's Rights organized by Susan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of the International Council of Women, a key event in the international women's movement.
- May 1 - Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is established by the United States Congress.
- May 5 - The International Association of Machinists is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
- June 3 - Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner.
- June 19 - The Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building, Chicago. Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President, respectively.
- July 25 - Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that becomes widely used.
- August 10 - Lynching of Amos Miller: 23-year-old African American farmhand Amos Miller is hanged by a mob from the balcony of Williamson County Courthouse (Franklin, Tennessee).
- August 25 - William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
- September 4 - Eastman Kodak Company founded by George Eastman.
- September 8 - President of the United States Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare" (in a letter accepting renomination for the office of President).
- October - The mediumship of the Fox sisters is confessed to be fraudulent.
- October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public in D.C.
- November 6 - 1888 United States presidential election: Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
- November 27 - The sorority Delta Delta Delta is founded at Boston University.
- November 29 - Celebration of Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah coincide.
- December 1 - The Washington Bridge opens to permit-holding pedestrians over the Harlem River in New York City, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx.[1]
Undated
Ongoing
- Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
Sport
- October 25 – The New York Giants clinch their First National League Championship series with an 11–3 win over the St. Louis Browns. The final 2 games will be played for revenue purposes with St. Louis winning both contests for an overall series result of 6 games to 4 in favor of the Giants.
- November 24 - Yale wins the Consensus College Football National Championship
Births
- January 1 - John Garand, inventor and designer of the M1 Garand (died 1974)[4]
- January 16 - Robert Henry English, admiral (died 1943)[5]
- c. January 20 - Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), folk and blues singer (died 1949)
- February 22 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1941 to 1952 (died 1961)
- February 25 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959 (died 1959)
- March 4 - Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (died 1931)
- March 10 - Ilo Wallace, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Henry A. Wallace (died 1981)
- March 26 - Gerald Murphy, socialite (died 1964)
- March 29 - James E. Casey, businessman and founder of UPS (died 1983)
- April 8 - Dennis Chávez, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1935 to 1962 (died 1962)
- April 26 - Anita Loos, writer (died 1981)
- May 11
- May 15 - John E. Miller, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1937 to 1941 (died 1981)
- June 3 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (died 1958)
- June 6 - Pete Wendling, composer, pianist and piano roll recording artist (died 1974)
- June 16 - Peter Stoner, mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (died 1980)
- June 23 - F. Ryan Duffy, judge and politician (died 1979)
- July 5 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 (died 1963)
- July 8 - John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (died 1947)
- July 10 - Hazel Abel, U.S. Senator from Nebraska in 1954 (died 1966)
- July 20 - Geneve L. A. Shaffer, realtor, lecturer and author (died 1976)
- July 22 - Kirk Bryan, geologist (died 1950)
- July 23 - Raymond Chandler, novelist (died 1959)
- July 31 - William Warren Barbour, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 (died 1943)
- August 5 - George W. Christians, founder of the Crusader White Shirts (died 1983)
- August 6 - Stephen Galatti, American Field Service director (d. 1964)
- August 16 - Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (died 1943)
- August 19 - Sam G. Bratton, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1925 to 1933 (died 1963)
- September 2 - Charles C. Gossett, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1946 (died 1974)
- September 6 - Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., politician (died 1969)
- September 26
- October 4 - Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (died 1961)
- October 7 - Henry A. Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945 (died 1965)
- October 16
- October 30 - Alan Goodrich Kirk, admiral (died 1963)
- November 13 - Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character (died 1940)
- November 17 - J. Melville Broughton, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1948 to 1949 (died 1949)
- November 23 - Harpo Marx, comedian (died 1964)
- November 24 - Roy Earl Parrish, politician (died 1918)[6]
- November 28 - Edgar Church, comic book collector (died 1978)
- December 18 - Robert Moses, public works director (died 1981)
Deaths
- January 21 - Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (born 1819)
- February 8 - Robert H. Anderson, infantry officer in the United States Army and brigadier general in the Confederate States Army (born 1835)
- February 11 - William Kelly, inventor (born 1811)
- March 4 - Amos Bronson Alcott, educator and writer (born 1799)
- March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, author (born 1832)[7]
- March 7 - Christopher Memminger, German-born American politician, 1st Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1803)
- March 19 - John Pendleton King, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1833 to 1837 (born 1799)
- March 23 - Morrison Waite, 7th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (born 1816)
- April 18 - Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party (born 1829)
- May 6 - Abraham Joseph Ash, rabbi (born c. 1813)[8]
- July 23 - Williams Carter Wickham, lawyer, politician, and Confederate general (born 1820)
- August 14 - Charles Crocker, railroad executive (born 1822)
- August 16 - John Pemberton, pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola (born 1831)
- August 22 - Charles W. Cathcart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1853 (born 1809)
- September 30 - Eunice Newton Foote, physicist and women's rights campaigner (born 1819)
- October 16 - John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago from 1857 to 1858 and 1860 to 1861 (born 1815)
- November 20 - Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born 1813)
- December 18 - Eagle Woman, Lakota leader (born 1820)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Washington Bridge. 1982-09-14. New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
- Web site: Searle family. 2022-11-12. Forbes. 2015.
- Book: Burrell, Brandon. Abbott Laboratories: Provisioning a Vision. Florida State University. 2013. Tallahassee.
- Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Britannica. John C. Garand. Sep 22, 2023.
- Web site: English (DD-696). Apr 27, 2016. Naval History and Heritage Command. Oct 13, 2023.
- News: 1918-08-08 . State Senator Roy E. Parrish Dies in Battle . 1 . . 2023-07-21.
- Web site: Louisa May Alcott Biography, Childhood, Family, Books, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 26 June 2020 . en.
- ASH, ABRAHAM JOSEPH. Cyrus Adler and Judah David Eisenstein. https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1908-ash-abraham-joseph.