1888 in the United States
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Events from the year 1888 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
- Vice President: vacant
- Chief Justice:
- Morrison Waite (Ohio) (until March 23)
- Melville Fuller (Illinois) (starting October 8)
State governments
Events
- January 13 â The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- February 27 â In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.
- March 8 â The Agriculture College of Utah, (later Utah State University) is founded in Logan, Utah.
- March 11 â The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along the East Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- March 25 â 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 â Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is established by the United States Congress.
- May 5 â The International Association of Machinists is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
- June 3 â 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 â 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 â 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 6 â Thomas Seay is reelected the 27th governor of Alabama defeating W. T. Ewing.
- August 10 â 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 â William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
- September 4 â Eastman Kodak Company founded by George Eastman.
- September 8 â 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 â The mediumship of the Fox sisters is confessed to be fraudulent.
- October 9 â The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public in D.C.
- November 6 â 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 â The sorority Delta Delta Delta is founded at Boston University.
- November 29 â Celebration of Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah coincide.
- December 1 â 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
- The Baldwin School is founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, as "Miss [Florence] Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory for Bryn Mawr College".
- Global pharmaceutical and health care brands are founded:
- G.D. Searle by Gideon Daniel Searle in Omaha, Nebraska.[2]
- Abbott Laboratories as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott in Illinois.[3]
- Katz's Delicatessen is founded on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
- New Mexico State University is founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Ongoing
- Gilded Age (1869âc. 1896)
Sport
- October 25 â The New York Giants clinch their First National League Championship series with an 11â3 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 â John Garand, inventor and designer of the M1 Garand (died 1974)[4]
- January 16 â Robert Henry English, admiral (died 1943)[5]
- c. January 20 â Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), folk and blues singer (died 1949)
- February 22 â Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1941 to 1952 (died 1961)
- February 25 â John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959 (died 1959)
- March 4 â Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (died 1931)
- March 10 â Ilo Wallace, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Henry A. Wallace (died 1981)
- March 26 â Gerald Murphy, socialite (died 1964)
- March 29 â James E. Casey, businessman and founder of UPS (died 1983)
- April 8 â Dennis Chávez, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1935 to 1962 (died 1962)
- April 26 â Anita Loos, writer (died 1981)
- May 11
- Irving Berlin, composer (died 1989)
- Willis Augustus Lee, admiral and sport shooter (died at sea 1945)
- May 15 â John E. Miller, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1937 to 1941 (died 1981)
- June 3 â Tom Brown, jazz musician (died 1958)
- June 6 â Pete Wendling, composer, pianist and piano roll recording artist (died 1974)
- June 16 â Peter Stoner, mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (died 1980)
- June 23 â F. Ryan Duffy, judge and politician (died 1979)
- July 5 â Herbert Spencer Gasser, physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 (died 1963)
- July 8 â John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (died 1947)
- July 10 â Hazel Abel, U.S. Senator from Nebraska in 1954 (died 1966)
- July 20 â Geneve L. A. Shaffer, realtor, lecturer and author (died 1976)
- July 22 â Kirk Bryan, geologist (died 1950)
- July 23 â Raymond Chandler, novelist (died 1959)
- July 31 â William Warren Barbour, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 (died 1943)
- August 5 â George W. Christians, founder of the Crusader White Shirts (died 1983)
- August 6 â Stephen Galatti, American Field Service director (d. 1964)
- August 16 â Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (died 1943)
- August 19 â Sam G. Bratton, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1925 to 1933 (died 1963)
- September 2 â Charles C. Gossett, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1946 (died 1974)
- September 6 â Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., politician (died 1969)
- September 26
- J. Frank Dobie, folklorist and journalist (died 1964)
- T. S. Eliot, American-born poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 (died 1965 in the United Kingdom)
- October 4 â Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (died 1961)
- October 7 â Henry A. Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945 (died 1965)
- October 16
- Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (died 1953)
- Paul Popenoe, eugenicist (died 1979)
- October 20 â Milton C. Portmann Professional football player, WWI Army Officer, Attorney. (died 1967)
- October 30 â Alan Goodrich Kirk, admiral (died 1963)
- November 13 â Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character (died 1940)
- November 17 â J. Melville Broughton, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1948 to 1949 (died 1949)
- November 23 â Harpo Marx, comedian (died 1964)
- November 24 â Roy Earl Parrish, politician (died 1918)[6]
- November 28 â Edgar Church, comic book collector (died 1978)
- December 18 â Robert Moses, public works director (died 1981)
Deaths
- January 21 â Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (born 1819)
- February 8 â Robert H. Anderson, infantry officer in the United States Army and brigadier general in the Confederate States Army (born 1835)
- February 11 â William Kelly, inventor (born 1811)
- March 4 â Amos Bronson Alcott, educator and writer (born 1799)
- March 6 â Louisa May Alcott, author (born 1832)[7]
- March 7 â Christopher Memminger, German-born American politician, 1st Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1803)
- March 19 â 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 â Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party (born 1829)
- May 6 â Abraham Joseph Ash, rabbi (born c. 1813)[8]
- July 23 â Williams Carter Wickham, lawyer, politician, and Confederate general (born 1820)
- August 14 â Charles Crocker, railroad executive (born 1822)
- August 16 â John Pemberton, pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola (born 1831)
- August 22 â Charles W. Cathcart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1853 (born 1809)
- September 30 â Eunice Newton Foote, physicist and women's rights campaigner (born 1819)
- October 16 â John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago from 1857 to 1858 and 1860 to 1861 (born 1815)
- November 20 â Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born 1813)
- December 18 â Eagle Woman, Lakota leader (born 1820)
