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List of events
Events from the year 1876 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
George S. Houston (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Augustus Hill Garland (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
William Irwin (
Democratic )
Governor of Colorado :
John Long Routt (
Republican ) (starting August 1)
Governor of Connecticut :
Charles R. Ingersoll (
Democratic )
Governor of Delaware :
John P. Cochran (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Marcellus Stearns (
Republican )
Governor of Georgia :
James M. Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
John Lourie Beveridge (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Thomas A. Hendricks (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Cyrus C. Carpenter (
Republican ) (until January 13),
Samuel J. Kirkwood (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Kansas :
Thomas A. Osborn (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
James B. McCreary (
Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana :
William Pitt Kellogg (
Republican )
Governor of Maine :
Nelson Dingley, Jr. (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Seldon Connor (
Republican Party ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Maryland :
James B. Groome (
Democratic ) (until January 12),
John Lee Carroll (
Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Massachusetts :
William Gaston (
Democratic ) (until January 6),
Alexander H. Rice (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Michigan :
John J. Bagley (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
Cushman K. Davis (
Republican ) (until January 7),
John S. Pillsbury (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi :
Adelbert Ames (
Republican ) (until March 29),
John M. Stone (
Democratic ) (starting March 29)
Governor of Missouri :
Charles Henry Hardin (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
Silas Garber (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Lewis R. Bradley (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Person C. Cheney (
Republican )
Governor of New Jersey :
Joseph D. Bedle (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Samuel J. Tilden (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Curtis Hooks Brogden (
Republican )
Governor of Ohio :
William Allen (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Rutherford B. Hayes (
Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Oregon :
La Fayette Grover (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John F. Hartranft (
Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Henry Lippitt (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (
Republican ) (until December 14),
Wade Hampton III (
Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Governor of Tennessee :
James D. Porter (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Richard Coke (
Democratic ) (until December 21),
Richard B. Hubbard (
Democratic ) (starting December 21)
Governor of Vermont :
Asahel Peck (
Republican ) (until October 5),
Horace Fairbanks (
Republican ) (starting October 5)
Governor of Virginia :
James L. Kemper (
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
John J. Jacob (
Democratic )/(
Independent )
Governor of Wisconsin :
William Robert Taylor (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Harrison Ludington (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant governors
Events
"Centennial Mirror", showing events from 1776 (left) compared with similar events in 1876 (right)
January–March
April–June
April 17 –
Friends Academy is founded by Gideon Frost at
Locust Valley, New York .
May 10 – The
Centennial Exposition begins in
Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania .
May 18 –
Wyatt Earp starts work in
Dodge City, Kansas , serving under
Marshal Larry Deger.
May 29 – Senate votes 37 to 29 that Secretary of War
William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and
impeachment , despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.
June 4 – The
Transcontinental Express arrives in
San Francisco, California via the
First Transcontinental Railroad , 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left
New York City .
June 11 –
Rutherford B. Hayes selected by the
Republicans as presidential candidate.
June 17 –
Indian Wars :
Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500
Sioux and
Cheyenne led by
Crazy Horse beat back General
George Crook 's forces at Rosebud Creek in
Montana Territory .
June 25 – Indian Wars:
Battle of the Little Bighorn – an army under
Lieutenant Colonel
George Armstrong Custer is defeated by 1,500-2,500
Lakota ,
Cheyenne and
Arapaho led by
Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse , suffering over 300 casualties.
June 27 –
Samuel J. Tilden selected by the
Democrats as presidential candidate.
July–September
October–December
Undated
Emile Berliner invents an improved form of
microphone which will be adopted for
Alexander Graham Bell 's telephone.
[4]
Meharry Medical College is founded in
Nashville, Tennessee , as the Medical Department of
Central Tennessee College ; it is the first medical school for
African Americans in the
South .
Lyford House, by
Richardson Bay ,
Tiburon, California is constructed.
Heinz Tomato Ketchup introduced.
Adolphus Busch 's brewery,
Anheuser-Busch in
St. Louis ,
Missouri , first markets
Budweiser , a
pale lager , as a nationally sold
beer .
Melville Reuben Bissell files a patent for an improved
carpet sweeper .
[5]
First
carousel at
Coney Island built by
Charles I. D. Looff .
Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the
Sioux chief
Sitting Bull in the region of the
Little Bighorn River , creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the
Great Plains .
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 12
January 23 –
Bess Houdini , stage assistant and wife of
Harry Houdini (died
1943 )
February 4 –
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn , poet and socialist (died
1959 )
February 16 –
Mack Swain , actor and vaudevillian (died
1935 )
March 5 –
John Flammang Schrank , attempted assassin of
Theodore Roosevelt (died
1943 )
March 11 –
Carl Ruggles , composer (died
1971 )
March 21 –
Walter Tewksbury , track athlete (died
1968 )
March 31 –
William H. Dieterich , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1933 to 1939 (died
1940 )
April 9 –
Park Trammell , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1917 to 1936 (died
1936 )
April 23 –
Mary Ellicott Arnold , social activist (died
1968 )
June 5 –
Tony Jackson , jazz pianist (died
1920 )
July 12 –
Alphaeus Philemon Cole , portrait painter (died
1988 )
August 8 –
Pat McCarran , Democratic United States Senator from Nevada from 1933 until 1954 (died
1954 )
August 18 –
George B. Martin , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1918 to 1919 (died
1945 )
September 13 –
Sherwood Anderson , novelist (died
1941 )
September 16
September 26 –
Edith Abbott , social worker and educator (died
1957 )
October 10 Nash;
William James Bryan , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1907 to 1908 (died
1908 )
November 23 –
Thomas M. Storke , U.S. Senator from California from 1938 to 1939 (died
1971 )
November 24 –
Walter Burley Griffin , architect (died
1937 )
November 29 –
Nellie Tayloe Ross , 14th
Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the
United States Mint from 1933 to 1953; first
female state governor in the U.S. (died
1977 )
December 9 –
Pauline Whittier , golfer (died
1946 )
[7]
December 12 –
Alvin Kraenzlein , hurdler (died
1928 )
December 20 –
Walter Sydney Adams , astronomer (died
1956 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 10 –
Gordon Granger , U.S. and Union Army general (born
1822 )
January 15 –
Eliza McCardle Johnson ,
First Lady of the United States ,
Second Lady of the United States (born
1810 )
February 18 –
Charlotte Cushman , actress (born
1816 )
April 9 –
Charles Goodyear , politician (born
1804 )
April 23 –
Archibald Dixon , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1852 to 1855 (born
1802 )
May 7 –
William Buell Sprague , clergyman and biographer (born
1795 )
June 20 –
John Neal , eccentric and influential writer, critic, lecturer, and activist (born
1793 )
[9]
June 25 –
George Armstrong Custer , U.S. Army colonel (in battle) (born
1839 )
August 2 –
Wild Bill Hickok , gunfighter and gambler (murdered) (born
1837 )
August 23 –
Joseph R. Underwood , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1847 to 1853 (born
1791 )
September 27 –
Braxton Bragg , U.S. and Confederate Army general (born
1817 )
October 1 –
James Lick , land baron (born
1796 )
December 3 –
Samuel Cooper ,
United States Army officer during the
Second Seminole War and the
Mexican–American War , highest-ranking
Confederate general during the
American Civil War (born
1798 )
December 9 –
George Trenholm , 2nd
Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (born
1807 )
See also
References
^ Roth, Cheyna (December 28, 2023).
"My Favorite Victorian Criminal Was a Bank Robber With a Secret Weapon" . Slate .
ISSN
1091-2339 . Retrieved January 6, 2024 .
^ Dewey, Melvil (1876).
A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library .
OCLC
78870163 . Retrieved July 31, 2012 .
^ U.S. Patent #174,466.
^
"Birth of the Microphone: How Sound Became Signal" . Wired .
ISSN
1059-1028 . Retrieved September 19, 2023 .
^ Baxter, Albert (1891). History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan . Munsell.
^
"Warren Hugh Twining" . Political Graveyard. Retrieved November 7, 2011 .
^
"Olympedia – Polly Whittier" . www.olympedia.org . Retrieved July 20, 2021 .
^ Bell, John L. Hard Times : Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1982. Print.
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 12.
ISBN
080-5-7723-08 .
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