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List of events
Events from the year 1888 in the United States .
Eisenhower Executive Office Building , built in 1888 in
Washington, DC
Barthrop House in
Port Townsend, Washington , built in 1888
Incumbents
Events
President
Grover Cleveland , photo circa 1888, loses his re-election campaign this year, but is re-elected in 1892.
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
Sport
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
References
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"Washington Bridge" (PDF) .
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission . 1982-09-14.
^
"Searle family" . Forbes . 2015. Retrieved 2022-11-12 .
^ Burrell, Brandon (2013).
Abbott Laboratories: Provisioning a Vision . Tallahassee: Florida State University.
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"John C. Garand" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved Sep 22, 2023 .
^
"English (DD-696)" .
Naval History and Heritage Command . Apr 27, 2016. Retrieved Oct 13, 2023 .
^
"State Senator Roy E. Parrish Dies in Battle" .
The Wheeling Intelligencer . 1918-08-08. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-07-21 .
^
"Louisa May Alcott | Biography, Childhood, Family, Books, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 26 June 2020 .
^
Cyrus Adler and
Judah David Eisenstein (1901–1906).
"ASH, ABRAHAM JOSEPH" . In
Singer, Isidore ; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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