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List of events
Events from the year 1891 in the United States .
First Baptist Church in
Lake City, Colorado , built in 1891
Santa Fe Railroad Depot,
Orange, California in 1891
Adams Memorial by
Augustus Saint-Gaudens , built in 1891,
Washington, D.C.
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Thomas G. Jones (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
James Philip Eagle (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
Robert Waterman (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Henry Markham (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Colorado :
Job Adams Cooper (
Republican ) (until January 13),
John Long Routt (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Connecticut :
Morgan G. Bulkeley (
Republican )
Governor of Delaware :
Benjamin T. Biggs (
Democratic ) (until January 20),
Robert J. Reynolds (
Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Governor of Florida :
Francis P. Fleming (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
William J. Northen (
Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
N. B. Willey (
Republican )
Governor of Illinois :
Joseph W. Fifer (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
Alvin P. Hovey (
Republican ) (until November 23),
Ira Joy Chase (
Republican ) (starting November 23)
Governor of Iowa :
Horace Boies (
Democratic )
Governor of Kansas :
Lyman U. Humphrey (
Republican )
Governor of Kentucky :
Simon B. Buckner (
Democratic ) (until September 2),
John Y. Brown (
Democratic ) (starting September 2)
Governor of Louisiana :
Francis T. Nicholls (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Edwin C. Burleigh (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Elihu Emory Jackson (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
John Q. A. Brackett (
Republican ) (until January 8),
William E. Russell (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Michigan :
Cyrus G. Luce (
Republican ) (until January 1),
Edwin B. Winans (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota :
William R. Merriam (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
John M. Stone (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
David R. Francis (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
Joseph Toole (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
John Milton Thayer (
Republican )
Governor of Nevada :
Frank Bell (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Roswell K. Colcord (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of New Hampshire :
David H. Goodell (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Hiram A. Tuttle (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of New Jersey :
Leon Abbett (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
David B. Hill (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Daniel Gould Fowle (
Democratic ) (until April 7),
Thomas Michael Holt (
Democratic ) (starting April 7)
Governor of North Dakota :
John Miller (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Andrew H. Burke (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Ohio :
James E. Campbell (
Democratic )
Governor of Oregon :
Sylvester Pennoyer (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
James A. Beaver (
Republican ) (until January 20),
Robert E. Pattison (
Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Governor of Rhode Island :
John W. Davis (
Democratic ) (until May 26),
Herbert W. Ladd (
Republican ) (starting May 26)
Governor of South Carolina :
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (
Democratic )
Governor of South Dakota :
Arthur C. Mellette (
Republican )
Governor of Tennessee :
Robert Love Taylor (
Democratic ) (until January 19),
John P. Buchanan (
Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Governor of Texas :
Lawrence Sullivan Ross (
Democratic ) (until January 20),
James Stephen Hogg (
Democratic ) (starting January 20)
Governor of Vermont :
Carroll S. Page (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Philip W. McKinney (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
Elisha Peyre Ferry (
Republican )
Governor of West Virginia :
Aretas B. Fleming (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
William D. Hoard (
Republican ) (until January 5),
George W. Peck (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Wyoming :
Amos W. Barber (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
Stephen M. White (
Democratic ) (until January 8),
John B. Reddick (
Republican ) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
William Grover Smith (
Republican ) (until January 13),
William Story (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Samuel E. Merwin (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
John S. Gray (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Lyman Ray (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Ira Joy Chase (
Republican ) (until November 23),
Francis M. Griffith (
Republican ) (starting November 23)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Alfred N. Poyneer (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Andrew J. Felt (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
James William Bryan (
Democratic ) (until September 2),
Mitchell Cary Alford (
Democratic ) (starting September 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
James Jeffries (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
William H. Haile (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
William Ball (
Republican ) (until January 1),
John Strong (
Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
Albert E. Rice (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Gideon S. Ives (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
M. M. Evans (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Stephen Hugh Claycomb (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
John E. Rickards (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
George D. Meiklejohn (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Thomas J. Majors (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Frank Bell (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Joseph Poujade (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Edward F. Jones (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Thomas M. Holt (
Democratic ) (until April 7), vacant (starting April 7)
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota :
Alfred Dickey (
Republican ) (until January 7),
Roger Allin (
Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
William V. Marquis (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
William T. Davies (
Republican ) (until January 20),
Louis Arthur Watres (
Republican ) (starting January 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
William T. C. Wardwell (political party unknown) (until May 26),
Henry A. Stearns (political party unknown) (starting May 26)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Eugene B. Gary (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
James H. Fletcher (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
George H. Hoffman (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee :
Benjamin J. Lea (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
William C. Dismukes (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
Thomas B. Wheeler (
Democratic ) (until January 19),
George Cassety Pendleton (
Democratic ) (starting January 19)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Henry A. Fletcher (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James Hoge Tyler (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Charles E. Laughton (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
George W. Ryland (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Charles Jonas (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Events
January 2 – A. L. Drummond of
New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service.
January 5 –
Henry B. Brown , of
Michigan , is sworn in as an
Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court .
January 13 – In
California ,
Leland Stanford (Rep.) re-elected
Senator .
January 17 –
George Bancroft dies at
Washington DC at age 91, all government buildings flying flags lower to half mast until after the funeral.
January 20 –
Jim Hogg becomes the first native
Texan to be governor of that state.
January 27 –
Mammoth Mine disaster
January 29 –
Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of
Hawaii .
March 3
March 14 – In
New Orleans , a
lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and
lynches 11 Italians who had been found not guilty of the murder of Police Chief
David Hennessy .
March 30 –
Shoshone National Forest is established in
Wyoming , the first
U.S. National Forest .
April 1 – The
Wrigley Company is founded in
Chicago .
May 5 – The Music Hall in
New York (later known as
Carnegie Hall ) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
May 20 –
Thomas Edison 's prototype
kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
June 1 – The
Johnstown Inclined Plane opens in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania .
June 21 – First long-distance transmission of
alternating current by the Ames power plant near
Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
September 23 –
California Institute of Technology in
California is founded.
October 1 –
Stanford University in
California opens its doors.
October 16 –
White River National Forest is established in
Colorado .
November 28 – The
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is organized in
St. Louis , Missouri.
December 17 –
Drexel University is inaugurated as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in
Philadelphia .
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January–June
January 1 –
Charles Bickford , actor (died
1967 )
January 2 –
Charles P. Thompson , actor (died
1979 )
January 7 –
Zora Neale Hurston , Harlem Renaissance writer (died
1960 )
January 25 –
Wellman Braud , jazz bassist (died
1966 )
January 28 –
Bill Doak , baseball player (died
1954 )
January 30 –
Walter Beech , aviator and aircraft manufacturer (died
1950 )
February 10 –
Elliot Paul , writer (died
1958 )
February 12 –
Eugene Millikin , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1941 to 1957 (died
1958 )
February 13 –
Grant Wood , painter (died
1942 )
February 15 –
Henry J. Knauf , politician (died
1950 )
March 10 –
Sam Jaffe , actor (died
1984 )
March 19 –
Earl Warren ,
Chief Justice of the United States (died
1974 )
March 26 –
Will Wright , actor (died
1962 )
April 13 –
Nella Larsen , novelist (died
1964 )
April 15 –
Wallace Reid , actor (died
1923 )
April 19 –
W. Alton Jones , industrialist and philanthropist (died
1962 )
April 26 –
Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd , mistress of Franklin D. Roosevelt (died
1948 )
May 21 –
John Peale Bishop , writer (died
1944 )
May 22 –
Eddie Edwards , jazz trombonist (died
1963 )
May 24 –
William F. Albright , archeologist and Biblical scholar (died
1971 )
May 26 –
May 30 –
Ben Bernie , bandleader (died
1943 )
June 3 –
Jim Tully , vagabond, pugilist and writer (died
1947 )
June 8 –
Audrey Munson , model and silent film actress (died
1996 )
June 9 –
Cole Porter , composer and songwriter (died
1964 )
June 28
June 30 –
Man Mountain Dean , wrestler (died
1953 )
July–December
July 5 –
John Howard Northrop , biochemist, winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (suicide
1987 )
July 10 –
Edith Quimby , medical researcher and physicist (died
1982 )
July 16 –
Blossom Seeley , singer and vaudeville performer (died
1974 )
July 18 –
Billy Sullivan , actor (died
1946 )
July 26 –
William J. Connors , politician (died
1961 )
August 1 –
Edward Streeter , humorist (died
1976 )
August 15 –
Chief Yowlachie , Native American actor (died
1966 )
August 29 –
Joyce Hall , founder of
Hallmark Cards (died
1982 )
September 3 –
Annie Elizabeth Delany , African American physician and author (died
1995 )
September 28 –
Myrtle Gonzalez , silent film actress (died
1918 )
October 7 –
Charles R. Chickering , illustrator (died
1970 )
October 25 –
Charles Coughlin , antisemitic radio host and
Catholic priest (died
1979 )
October 29 –
Fanny Brice , actress, comedian and singer (died
1951 )
November 2 –
David Townsend , art director (died
1935 )
November 7 –
Miriam Cooper , silent film actress (died
1976 )
November 10 –
Carl Stalling , cartoon film composer (died
1972 )
November 15 –
Vincent Astor , philanthropist (died
1959 )
November 20 –
Leon Cadore , baseball pitcher (died
1958 )
December 14
December 26 –
Henry Miller , novelist (died
1980 )
Deaths
January 5 –
Emma Abbott , operatic soprano (born
1850 )
January 17 –
George Bancroft , historian (born
1800 )
January 29 –
William Windom , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1870 to 1881 and from 1881 to 1883 (born
1827 )
February 14 –
William Tecumseh Sherman , Civil War general (born
1820 )
February 21 –
James Timberlake , law enforcement officer (born
1846 )
February 28 –
George Hearst , U.S. Senator from California from 1887 to 1891 (born
1820 )
March 6
March 21 –
Joseph E. Johnston ,
Confederate Army general (born
1807 )
April 2 –
Albert Pike , Confederate military officer, attorney, writer and Freemason (born
1809 )
April 7 –
P. T. Barnum , showman, businessman, and politician (b.
1810 )
April 14 –
Annie Nowlin Savery , suffragist (born
1831 in the United Kingdom )
June 9 –
Henry Edwards ,
entomologist and actor (born
1827 in the United Kingdom )
June 17 –
Harrison Ludington , 13th Governor of Wisconsin from 1876 to 1878 (born 1812)
June 21 –
Joseph E. McDonald , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1875 to 1881 (born
1819 )
July 4 –
Hannibal Hamlin , 15th
vice president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (born
1809 )
August 5 –
Thomas S. Bocock , U.S. Congressman, Speaker of the
Confederate States House of Representatives (born
1815 )
August 12 –
James Russell Lowell , Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat and abolitionist (born
1819 )
August 14
August 27 –
Samuel C. Pomeroy , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1873 (born
1816 )
September 10 –
Charles B. Clark , politician and entrepreneur (born
1844 )
September 28 –
Herman Melville , novelist, short story writer and poet (born
1819 )
October 16 –
Sarah Winnemucca ,
Northern Paiute author, activist and educator (born
1844 )
November 6 –
J. Gregory Smith , Vermont governor (born
1818 )
November 17 –
George H. Cooper , admiral (born
1821 )
December 7 –
Mary Crane , activist; mother of writer
Stephen Crane (born
1827 )
December 12 –
Julia A. Ames , reformer (born
1861 )
December 20 –
Preston B. Plumb , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (born
1837 )
December 29 –
Marion McKinley Bovard , academic administrator, 1st president of the
University of Southern California (born
1847 )
See also
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