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1887 in the United States
Summary
Events from the year
1887 in the United States
.
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Decades:
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See also:
History of the United States (1865–1918)
Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)
List of years in the United States
Incumbents
edit
Federal government
edit
President
:
Grover Cleveland
(
D
-
New York
)
Vice President
:
vacant
Chief Justice
:
Morrison Waite
(
Ohio
)
Speaker of the House of Representatives
:
John G. Carlisle
(
D
-
Kentucky
)
Congress
:
49th
(until March 4),
50th
(starting March 4)
Governors
and
lieutenant governors
Governors
edit
Governor of Alabama
:
Thomas Seay
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Arkansas
:
Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr.
(
Democratic
)
Governor of California
:
until January 8:
George Stoneman
(
Republican
)
January 8-September 12:
Washington Bartlett
(
Democratic
)
starting September 12:
Robert Waterman
(
Republican
)
Governor of Colorado
:
Benjamin Harrison Eaton
(
Republican
) (until January 11),
Alva Adams
(
Democratic
) (starting January 11)
Governor of Connecticut
:
Henry B. Harrison
(
Republican
) (until January 7),
Phineas C. Lounsbury
(
Republican
) (starting January 7)
Governor of Delaware
:
Charles C. Stockley
(
Democratic
) (until January 18),
Benjamin T. Biggs
(
Democratic
) (starting January 18)
Governor of Florida
:
Edward A. Perry
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Georgia
:
John B. Gordon
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Illinois
:
Richard J. Oglesby
(
Republican
)
Governor of Indiana
:
Isaac P. Gray
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Iowa
:
William Larrabee
(
Republican
)
Governor of Kansas
:
John A. Martin
(
Republican
)
Governor of Kentucky
:
J. Proctor Knott
(
Democratic
) (until August 30),
Simon B. Buckner
(
Democratic
) (starting August 30)
Governor of Louisiana
:
Samuel D. McEnery
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Maine
:
until January 5:
Frederick Robie
(
Republican
)
January 5-December 15:
Joseph R. Bodwell
(
Republican
)
starting December 15:
Sebastian Streeter Marble
(
Republican
)
Governor of Maryland
:
Henry Lloyd
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Massachusetts
:
George D. Robinson
(
Republican
) (until January 6),
Oliver Ames
(
Republican
) (starting January 6)
Governor of Michigan
:
Russell Alger
(
Republican
) (until January 1),
Cyrus G. Luce
(
Republican
) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota
:
Lucius F. Hubbard
(
Republican
) (until January 5),
Andrew R. McGill
(
Republican
) (starting January 5)
Governor of Mississippi
:
Robert Lowry
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Missouri
:
John S. Marmaduke
(
Democratic
) (until December 28),
Albert P. Morehouse
(
Democratic
) (starting December 28)
Governor of Nebraska
:
James W. Dawes
(
Republican
) (until January 6),
John Milton Thayer
(
Republican
) (starting January 6)
Governor of Nevada
:
Jewett W. Adams
(
Democratic
) (until January 3),
Charles C. Stevenson
(
Democratic
) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Hampshire
:
Moody Currier
(
Republican
) (until June 2),
Charles H. Sawyer
(
Democratic
) (starting June 2)
Governor of New Jersey
:
Leon Abbett
(
Democratic
) (until January 18),
Robert Stockton Green
(
Democratic
) (starting January 18)
Governor of New York
:
David B. Hill
(
Democratic
)
Governor of North Carolina
:
Alfred Moore Scales
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Ohio
:
Joseph B. Foraker
(
Republican
)
Governor of Oregon
:
Z. F. Moody
(
Republican
) (until January 12),
Sylvester Pennoyer
(
Democratic
) (starting January 12)
Governor of Pennsylvania
:
Robert E. Pattison
(
Democratic
) (until January 18),
James A. Beaver
(
Republican
) (starting January 18)
Governor of Rhode Island
:
George P. Wetmore
(
Republican
) (until May 29),
John W. Davis
(
Democratic
) (starting May 29)
Governor of South Carolina
:
John Peter Richardson III
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Tennessee
:
William B. Bate
(
Democratic
) (until January 17),
Robert Love Taylor
(
Democratic
) (starting January 17)
Governor of Texas
:
John Ireland
(
Democratic
) (until January 20),
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
(
Democratic
) (starting January 20)
Governor of Vermont
:
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee
(
Republican
)
Governor of Virginia
:
Fitzhugh Lee
(
Democratic
)
Governor of West Virginia
:
Emanuel Willis Wilson
(
Democratic
)
Governor of Wisconsin
:
Jeremiah McLain Rusk
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant governors
edit
Lieutenant Governor of California
:
until January 8:
John Daggett
(
Democratic
)
January 8-September 13:
Robert Whitney Waterman
(
Republican
)
starting September 13:
Stephen M. White
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
:
Peter W. Breene
(
Republican
) (until January 11),
Norman H. Meldrum
(
Democratic
) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
:
Lorrin A. Cooke
(
Republican
) (until January 8),
James L. Howard
(
Republican
) (starting January 8)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida
:
Milton H. Mabry
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
:
John Smith
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
: vacant (until January 10),
Robert S. Robertson
/
Alonzo G. Smith
(
Republican
/
Democratic
) (starting January 10)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
:
John A. T. Hull
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
:
Alexander P. Riddle
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
:
James R. Hindman
(
Democratic
) (until August 30),
James William Bryan
(
Democratic
) (starting August 30)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
:
Clay Knobloch
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
:
Oliver Ames
(
Republican
) (until January 4),
John Q. A. Brackett
(political party unknown) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
:
Archibald Buttars
(
Republican
) (until month and day unknown),
James H. MacDonald
(
Republican
) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
:
Charles A. Gilman
(
Republican
) (until January 4),
Albert E. Rice
(
Republican
) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
:
G. D. Shands
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
:
Albert P. Morehouse
(
Democratic
) (until December 28), vacant (starting December 28)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
:
Hibbard H. Shedd
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
:
Charles E. Laughton
(
Republican
) (until month and day unknown), Henry C. Davis (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of New York
:
Edward F. Jones
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
:
Charles M. Stedman
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
:
Robert P. Kennedy
(
Republican
) (until March 3),
Silas A. Conrad
(
Republican
) (starting March 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
:
Chauncey Forward Black
(
Democratic
) (until January 20),
William T. Davies
(
Republican
) (starting January 20)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
:
Lucius B. Darling
(political party unknown) (until May 29), Samuel R. Honey (political party unknown) (starting May 29)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
:
William L. Mauldin
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee
:
Cabell R. Berry
(
Democratic
) (until month and day unknown), Z. W. Ewing (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas
:
Barnett Gibbs
(
Democratic
) (until January 18), Thomas B. Wheeler (
Democratic
) (starting January 18)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
:
Levi K. Fuller
(
Republican
)
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
:
John Edward "Parson" Massey
(
Democratic
)
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
:
Sam S. Fifield
(
Republican
) (until January 3),
George W. Ryland
(
Republican
) (starting January 3)
Events
edit
January 20 – The
United States Senate
allows the
Navy
to lease
Pearl Harbor
in
Hawaii
as a naval base.
January 28 – In a
snowstorm
at
Fort Keogh
,
Montana
, the largest
snowflakes
on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
[
citation needed
]
February 2 – In
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
, the first
Groundhog Day
is observed.
February 4 – The
Interstate Commerce Act
, passed by
Congress
, is signed into law, with the intention of regulating the railroad industry.
February 8 – The
Dawes Act
is signed into law by President
Grover Cleveland
.
February 26 –
Troy University
is established as Troy State Normal School; an institution to train teachers for Alabama's schools.
February – The
Atlanta Cyclorama
is first displayed in
Detroit
as "Logan's Great Battle".
March 3 –
Anne Sullivan
begins teaching
Helen Keller
.
March 7 –
North Carolina State University
is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
March 19 –
Cogswell College
is established as a
high school
by Dr.
Henry D. Cogswell
in
San Francisco
, the first technical training institution in the West (the school opens in 1888).
April 4 –
Argonia, Kansas
elects
Susanna M. Salter
as the first female mayor in the U.S.
May 14 – The cornerstone of the new
Stanford University
, in northern
California
, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
June 28 –
Minot, North Dakota
is incorporated as a city.
July 10 – The Grand Hotel opens in Mackinac, Michigan.
August – The U.S.
National Institutes of Health
is founded at the Marine Hospital,
Staten Island, New York
, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
October 3 -
Florida A&M University
is founded as The State Normal College for Colored Students in Tallahassee, Florida.
October 14 –
Pomona College
is founded in
Claremont, California
.
Undated
edit
Ruby Mining District
(Salmon Creek District) is established in Washington state.
Teachers College
, later part of
Columbia University
, is founded by
Grace Hoadley Dodge
as the New York School for the Training of Teachers;
Nicholas Murray Butler
is its first president.
Ongoing
edit
Gilded Age
(1869–c. 1896)
Sport
edit
September 28 – The
Detroit Wolverines
win the
National League
pennant with a 7–3 victory over the
Indianapolis Hoosiers
.
November 24 –
Yale
wins the Consensus
College Football National Championship
Births
edit
January 22
David W. Stewart
, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1926 to 1927 (died
1974
)
Elmer Fowler Stone
, first United States Coast Guard aviator (died
1936
)
February 6 –
Ernest Gruening
, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1969 (died 1974)
February 7 –
Eubie Blake
, African American jazz composer-pianist (died
1983
)
February 11 –
H. Kent Hewitt
, admiral (died
1972
)
February 26
Grover Cleveland Alexander
, baseball player (died
1950
)
William Frawley
, actor best known for played Fred Mertz in
I Love Lucy
(died
1966
)
March 4 –
Violet MacMillan
, Broadway theater actress (died
1953
)
March 5 –
Harry Turner
, American football player (died
1914
)
March 14 –
Charles Reisner
,
silent actor
and film director (died
1962
)
March 22 –
Chico Marx
, comedian (died
1961
)
April 9 –
Florence Price
, African American classical composer (died
1953
)
April 15 –
Mike Brady
, golfer (died
1972
)
July 16 –
Shoeless Joe Jackson
, baseball outfielder (died
1951
)
July 31 –
Peter Bocage
, jazz musician (died
1967
)
August 27 –
Julia Sanderson
, actress (died
1975
)
September 3 –
Frank Christian
, jazz musician (died
1973
)
September 8 –
Jacob L. Devers
, U.S. Army general (died
1979
)
September 9 –
Alf Landon
, Republican politician, presidential candidate (died
1987
)
September 13 –
Frank Gray
, physicist and researcher, known for the
Gray code
(died
1969
)
September 28 –
Avery Brundage
, 5th president of the
International Olympic Committee
(died
1975
)
September 29 –
Annie Dove Denmark
, music educator and academic administrator (died
1974
)
November 15 –
Georgia O'Keeffe
, painter (died 1986)
December 19 –
George R. Swift
, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1946 (died
1972
)
date unknown
–
White Parker
, missionary and actor (died
1956
)
Deaths
edit
January 7 –
Aaron Shaw
,
U.S. Representative
from
Illinois
(born
1811
)
March 8 –
Henry Ward Beecher
, clergyman and reformer (born
1813
)
March 24 –
Justin Holland
, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (born
1819
)
May 14
Lysander Spooner
, philosopher and abolitionist (born
1808
)
William Burnham Woods
, Supreme Court justice and politician (born
1824
)
May 19 –
Charles E. Stuart
, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1853 to 1859 (born
1810
)
June 4 –
William A. Wheeler
, 19th
vice president of the United States
from 1877 to 1881 (born
1819
)
June 25 –
James Speed
, U.S. Attorney General from 1864 to 1866 under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (born
1812
)
July 18
Dorothea Dix
, mental health reformer (born
1802
)
[1]
Robert M. T. Hunter
,
Virginian
lawyer, politician,
14th
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
,
2nd Confederate States Secretary of State
(born
1809
)
July 25 –
John Taylor
, 3rd president of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(born
1808
)
August 14 –
Aaron A. Sargent
, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1879 (born
1827
)
August 18 –
Orson Squire Fowler
,
phrenologist
and leading proponent of the
octagon house
(born
1809
)
August 23 –
Sarah Yorke Jackson
, Acting
First Lady of the United States
(born
1803
)
November 8 –
Doc Holliday
, gunfighter, gambler and dentist (TB; born
1851
)
November 11 –
August Spies
, labor activist, newspaper editor and anarchist (executed; born 1855 in Germany)
December 24 –
Daniel Manning
, businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (born
1831
)
See also
edit
Timeline of United States history (1860–1899)
References
edit
^
Brown, Thomas J. (1998).
Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer
. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. p. 1.
ISBN
978-0-67421-488-0
.
External links
edit
Media related to 1887 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons