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1899 $5
silver certificate
"The beautiful Indian maidens", promotional poster, ca. 1899
W. H. Shipman House ,
Hilo, Hawaii , built in 1899
Events from the year 1899 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Joseph F. Johnston (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
Daniel Webster Jones (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
James Budd (
Democratic ) (until January 4),
Henry Gage (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Colorado :
Alva Adams (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
Charles Spalding Thomas (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Connecticut :
Lorrin A. Cooke (
Republican ) (until January 4),
George E. Lounsbury (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Governor of Delaware :
Ebe W. Tunnell (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
William D. Bloxham (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Allen D. Candler (
Democratic )
Governor of Idaho :
Frank Steunenberg (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
John Riley Tanner (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
James A. Mount (
Republican )
Governor of Iowa :
Leslie M. Shaw (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
John W. Leedy (
Populist ) (until January 9),
William E. Stanley (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Kentucky :
William O. Bradley (
Republican ) (until December 12),
William S. Taylor (
Republican ) (starting December 12)
Governor of Louisiana :
Murphy James Foster, Sr. (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Llewellyn Powers (
Republican )
Governor of Maryland :
Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (
Republican )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Roger Wolcott (
Republican )
Governor of Michigan :
Hazen S. Pingree (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
David M. Clough (
Republican ) (until January 2),
John Lind (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Mississippi :
Anselm J. McLaurin (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
Lon Vest Stephens (
Democratic )
Governor of Montana :
Robert Burns Smith (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
Silas A. Holcomb (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
William A. Poynter (
Democratic ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Nevada :
Reinhold Sadler (
Silver )
Governor of New Hampshire :
George A. Ramsdell (
Republican ) (until January 5),
Frank W. Rollins (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Governor of New Jersey :
David Ogden Watkins (
Republican ) (until January 17),
Foster MacGowan Voorhees (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of New York :
Theodore Roosevelt (
Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of North Carolina :
Daniel Lindsay Russell (
Republican )
Governor of North Dakota :
Joseph M. Devine (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Frederick B. Fancher (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Ohio :
Asa S. Bushnell (
Republican )
Governor of Oregon :
William Paine Lord (
Republican ) (until January 9),
T. T. Geer (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
Daniel H. Hastings (
Republican ) (until January 17),
William A. Stone (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Elisha Dyer, Jr. (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
William Haselden Ellerbe (
Democratic ) (until June 2),
Miles Benjamin McSweeney (
Democratic ) (starting June 2)
Governor of South Dakota :
Andrew E. Lee (
Populist )
Governor of Tennessee :
Robert Love Taylor (
Democratic ) (until January 16),
Benton McMillin (
Democratic ) (starting January 16)
Governor of Texas :
Charles A. Culberson (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
Joseph D. Sayers (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Utah :
Heber Manning Wells (
Republican )
Governor of Vermont :
Edward Curtis Smith (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
James Hoge Tyler (
Democratic )
Governor of Washington :
John Rankin Rogers (
Populist )/(
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
George W. Atkinson (
Republican )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Edward Scofield (
Republican )
Governor of Wyoming :
William A. Richards (
Republican ) (until January 2),
DeForest Richards (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
William T. Jeter (
Democratic ) (until January 3),
Jacob H. Neff (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Jared L. Brush (
Republican ) (until January 10),
Francis Patrick Carney (Populist) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
James D. Dewell (
Republican ) (until January 4),
Lyman A. Mills (
Republican ) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho :
George F. Moore (
Democratic ) (until January 2),
J. H. Hutchinson (
Democratic ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
William Northcott (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
William S. Haggard (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
James C. Milliman (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Alexander M. Harvey (Populist) (until January 9),
Harry E. Richter (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
William Jackson Worthington (
Republican ) (until December 12),
John Marshall (
Republican ) (starting December 12)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Robert H. Snyder (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Winthrop M. Crane (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Thomas B. Dunstan (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
Orrin W. Robinson (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
John L. Gibbs (
Republican ) (until January 3),
Lyndon A. Smith (
Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
J. H. Jones (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : August Bolte (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana :
Archibald E. Spriggs (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
James E. Harris (
Democratic ) (until January 5),
Edward A. Gilbert (
Republican ) (starting January 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
James R. Judge (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
Timothy L. Woodruff (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Charles A. Reynolds (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Asa W. Jones (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
Walter Lyon (
Republican ) (until January 17),
John P. S. Gobin (
Republican ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island :
William Gregory (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
Miles Benjamin McSweeney (
Democratic ) (until June 2),
Robert B. Scarborough (
Democratic ) (starting June 2)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota :
Daniel T. Hindman (
Republican ) (until month and day unknown),
John T. Kean (
Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : John Thompson (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Seid Waddell (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas :
George Taylor Jester (
Democratic ) (until January 17),
James Browning (
Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Henry C. Bates (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
Edward Echols (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington :
Thurston Daniels (Populist)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
Emil Baensch (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Jesse Stone (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
September 6 –
Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late-nineteenth century and the early-twentieth century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note,
September 14 –
Henry H. Bliss becomes the first person to be killed by a motor vehicle in the United States. Upon disembarking from a
streetcar in
New York City , an electric-powered
taxicab strikes and crushes him and he dies from his injuries the following morning.
October
November
1899 snowstorm in
Washington, D.C.
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 9 –
John A. Danaher , U.S. Senator from Connecticut 1939–1945 (died
1990 ).
January 17 –
Al Capone , gangster and crime boss (died
1947 ).
February 4 –
Virginia M. Alexander , African American physician (died
1949 )
[3]
February 22
February 27 –
Charles Best , medical scientist (died
1978 in Canada ).
April 11 –
Percy Lavon Julian , African American research chemist (died
1975 ).
April 28 –
Mary Loveless , née Hewitt, immunologist (died
1991 ).
April 29 –
Duke Ellington , jazz musician and composer (died
1974 ).
May 10 –
Fred Astaire , né Austerlitz, dancer and singer (died
1987 ).
May 15 –
Leonard B. Jordan , U.S. Senator from Idaho 1962–1973 (died
1983 ).
June 4 –
Arthur Barker , son of
Ma Barker and a member of the
Barker-Karpis gang (died
1939 )
July 7
July 6 –
Susannah Mushatt Jones , African American
supercentenarian ,
oldest (confirmed) living person 2015–2016 (died
2016 ).
July 17 –
James Cagney , film actor (died
1986 ).
July 21
July 23 –
Carl G. Fenner , botanist (died
1991 ).
September 9 –
Neil Hamilton , actor (died
1984 ).
September 11 –
Jimmie Davis , country and gospel singer-songwriter and politician (died
2000 ).
October 3 –
Gertrude Berg , American actress, screenwriter and producer (died
1966 )
[5]
November 5 –
Margaret Atwood Judson , historian and author (died
1991 ).
November 22 –
Hoagy Carmichael , composer and singer (died
1981 ).
December 20 –
John Sparkman , U.S. Senator from Alabama 1946–1979 (died
1985 ).
December 25 –
Humphrey Bogart , film actor (died
1957 ).
Caroline F. Ware , historian and
New Deal activist (died
1990 ).
Deaths
January 23 –
Daniel O'Connell , journalist, poet and writer (born
1849 )
January 26 –
Augustus Hill Garland , U.S. Senator from Arkansas 1885–1889 (born
1832 ).
March 1 –
Philip W. McKinney , 41st Governor of Virginia (born 1832).
March 18 –
Othniel Charles Marsh , paleontologist (born
1831 ).
March 19 –
Patrick Walsh , Irish-born U.S. Senator from Georgia 1894–1895 (born
1840 ).
April 10 –
Horace Tabor , U.S. Senator from Colorado in 1883 (born
1830 ).
April 22 –
Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. , founder of the
Kentucky Derby (born
1846 )
April 24 –
Richard J. Oglesby , U.S. Senator from Illinois 1873–1878 (born
1824 ).
June 7 –
Augustin Daly , dramatist and theater manager (born
1838 ).
July 18 –
Horatio Alger, Jr. , Unitarian minister and author (born
1832 ).
August 8 –
Lucy Pickens , socialite, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the
Confederacy " (born
1832 )
August 22 –
Caspar Buberl , Bohemian-born sculptor (born 1834).
September 9 –
James B. Eustis , U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1876–1879 and 1885–1891 (born
1834 ).
September 12 –
Cornelius Vanderbilt II , businessman (born
1843 ).
October 4 –
Jimmy Logue , Philadelphia based burglar (born
1837 ).
[6]
October 5 –
James Harlan , U.S. Senator from Iowa 1865–1866 (born
1820 ).
October 14 –
Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston , writer of poems, novels, hymns, and a diary (born
1812 ).
October 18 –
Gussie Davis , African American songwriter (born
1863 ).
October 28 –
Ottmar Mergenthaler , German-born inventor (born
1854 ).
October 30 –
William H. Webb , shipbuilder and philanthropist (born
1816 ).
November 21 –
Garret Hobart , 24th
vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899 (born
1844 ).
November 25 –
Robert Lowry , Baptist minister and hymn writer (born
1826 ).
December 22 –
Dwight L. Moody , preacher and publisher (born
1837 ).
See also
References
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"Professional Information" . The Major Taylor Society. Archived from
the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2012 .
^
"Milestones of the U.S. Archival Profession and the National Archives, 1800-2011" . U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved August 22, 2016 .
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"Dr. Virginia M. Alexander" . U.S. National Library of Medicine . Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
^
"Hart Crane | American poet" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved July 27, 2021 .
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"Gertrude Berg | American actress, producer, and screenwriter" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved January 25, 2021 .
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"Abbreviated Telegrams" .
Rock Island Argus . October 6, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved April 3, 2015 – via
Chronicling America .
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