1888 in the United States

::Melville Fuller (Illinois) (starting October 8) - Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky) - Congress: [50th](50th-united-states-congress) #### State governments ::data[format=table] | Governors and lieutenant governors | |---| | | :: ## Events ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Appletons'_Cleveland_Grover.jpg" caption="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 6 – Thomas Seay is [reelected](1888-alabama-gubernatorial-election) the 27th governor of Alabama defeating W. T. Ewing. - 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](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. ### 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. - Abbott Laboratories as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott in Illinois. - 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 (1869–c. 1896) ## Sport - October 25 – The New York Giants clinch their First National League Championship series with an 11–3 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](1887-yale-bulldogs-football-team) wins the Consensus College Football National Championship ## Births - January 1 – John Garand, inventor and designer of the M1 Garand (died [1974](1974-in-the-united-states)) - January 16 – Robert Henry English, admiral (died [1943](1943-in-the-united-states)) - c. January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), folk and blues singer (died [1949](1949-in-the-united-states)) - February 22 – Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1941 to 1952 (died [1961](1961-in-the-united-states)) - February 25 – John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959 (died [1959](1959-in-the-united-states)) - March 4 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (died [1931](1931-in-the-united-states)) - March 10 – Ilo Wallace, Second Lady of the United States as wife of Henry A. Wallace (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) - March 26 – Gerald Murphy, socialite (died [1964](1964-in-the-united-states)) - March 29 – James E. Casey, businessman and founder of UPS (died [1983](1983-in-the-united-states)) - April 8 – Dennis Chávez, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1935 to 1962 (died [1962](1962-in-the-united-states)) - April 26 – Anita Loos, writer (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) - May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (died [1989](1989-in-the-united-states)) - Willis Augustus Lee, admiral and sport shooter (died at sea [1945](1945-in-the-united-states)) - May 15 – John E. Miller, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1937 to 1941 (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) - June 3 – Tom Brown, jazz musician (died [1958](1958-in-the-united-states)) - June 6 – Pete Wendling, composer, pianist and piano roll recording artist (died [1974](1974-in-the-united-states)) - June 16 – Peter Stoner, mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (died [1980](1980-in-the-united-states)) - June 23 – F. Ryan Duffy, judge and politician (died [1979](1979-in-the-united-states)) - July 5 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 (died [1963](1963-in-the-united-states)) - July 8 – John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (died [1947](1947-in-the-united-states)) - July 10 – Hazel Abel, U.S. Senator from Nebraska in 1954 (died [1966](1966-in-the-united-states)) - July 20 – Geneve L. A. Shaffer, realtor, lecturer and author (died [1976](1976-in-the-united-states)) - July 22 – Kirk Bryan, geologist (died [1950](1950-in-the-united-states)) - July 23 – Raymond Chandler, novelist (died [1959](1959-in-the-united-states)) - July 31 – William Warren Barbour, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 (died [1943](1943-in-the-united-states)) - August 5 – George W. Christians, founder of the Crusader White Shirts (died [1983](1983-in-the-united-states)) - August 6 – Stephen Galatti, American Field Service director (d. [1964](1964-in-the-united-states)) - August 16 – Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (died [1943](1943-in-the-united-states)) - August 19 – Sam G. Bratton, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1925 to 1933 (died [1963](1963-in-the-united-states)) - September 2 – Charles C. Gossett, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1946 (died [1974](1974-in-the-united-states)) - September 6 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., politician (died [1969](1969-in-the-united-states)) - September 26 - J. Frank Dobie, folklorist and journalist (died [1964](1964-in-the-united-states)) - T. S. Eliot, American-born poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 (died [1965 in the United Kingdom](1965-in-the-united-kingdom)) - October 4 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (died [1961](1961-in-the-united-states)) - October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945 (died [1965](1965-in-the-united-states)) - October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (died [1953](1953-in-the-united-states)) - Paul Popenoe, eugenicist (died [1979](1979-in-the-united-states)) - October 20 – Milton C. Portmann Professional football player, WWI Army Officer, Attorney. (died [1967](1967-in-the-united-states)) - October 30 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, admiral (died [1963](1963-in-the-united-states)) - November 13 – Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of the Buck Rogers character (died [1940](1940-in-the-united-states)) - November 17 – J. Melville Broughton, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1948 to 1949 (died [1949](1949-in-the-united-states)) - November 23 – Harpo Marx, comedian (died [1964](1964-in-the-united-states)) - November 24 – Roy Earl Parrish, politician (died [1918](1918-in-the-united-states)) - November 28 – Edgar Church, comic book collector (died [1978](1978-in-the-united-states)) - December 18 – Robert Moses, public works director (died [1981](1981-in-the-united-states)) ## Deaths - January 21 – Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (born [1819](1819-in-germany)) - February 8 – Robert H. Anderson, infantry officer in the United States Army and brigadier general in the Confederate States Army (born [1835](1835-in-the-united-states)) - February 11 – William Kelly, inventor (born [1811](1811-in-the-united-states)) - March 4 – Amos Bronson Alcott, educator and writer (born [1799](1799-in-the-united-states)) - March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, author (born [1832](1832-in-the-united-states)) - March 7 – Christopher Memminger, German-born American politician, 1st Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (born [1803](1803-in-the-united-states)) - 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](1816)) - April 18 – Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party (born [1829](1829-in-the-united-states)) - May 6 – Abraham Joseph Ash, rabbi (born c. 1813) - July 23 – Williams Carter Wickham, lawyer, politician, and Confederate general (born [1820](1820-in-the-united-states)) - August 14 – Charles Crocker, railroad executive (born [1822](1822-in-the-united-states)) - August 16 – John Pemberton, pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola (born [1831](1831-in-the-united-states)) - August 22 – Charles W. Cathcart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1853 (born [1809](1809-in-the-united-states)) - September 30 – Eunice Newton Foote, physicist and women's rights campaigner (born [1819](1819-in-the-united-states)) - October 16 – John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago from 1857 to 1858 and 1860 to 1861 (born [1815](1815-in-the-united-states)) - November 20 – Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born [1813](1813-in-the-united-states)) - December 18 – Eagle Woman, Lakota leader (born [1820](1820-in-the-united-states)) ## References ## References 1. (1982-09-14). ["Washington Bridge"](http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1222.pdf). *[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]*. 2. (2015). ["Searle family"](https://www.forbes.com/profile/searle/). 3. Burrell, Brandon. (2013). ["Abbott Laboratories: Provisioning a Vision"](https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:253319/datastream/PDF/view). *Florida State University*. 4. ["John C. 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