1891 in the United States
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| Years: | 1888 1889 1890 – 1891 – 1892 1893 1894 |
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Events from the year 1891 in the United States.
File:Baptist Church in Lake City, Colorado.jpg
First Baptist Church in Lake City, Colorado, built in 1891
Contents
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana)
- Vice President: Levi P. Morton (R-New York)
- Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Illinois)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) (until March 4), Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia) (starting December 8)
- Congress: 51st (until March 4), 52nd (starting March 4)
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Events
- January 20 – Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
- January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
- March 3 – The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed by the Fifty-first United States Congress.
- 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 15 – Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator at Coney Beach.
- 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.
- October 1 – Stanford University in California opens its doors.
- 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
- Seattle University is established as the Immaculate Conception school.
Ongoing
- Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
- Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
- Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
- Garza Revolution in Texas and Mexico (1891–1893)
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)
- 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)
- 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 30 – Ben Bernie, bandleader (died 1943)
- June 3 – Jim Tully, vagabond, pugilist and writer (died 1947)
- June 8 – Audrey Munson, actress (died 1996)
- June 9 – Cole Porter, composer and songwriter (died 1964)
- June 28 – Esther Forbes, writer (died 1967)
- 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 16 – Blossom Seeley, singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974)
- July 26 – William J. Connors, politician (died 1961)
- August 1 – Edward Streeter, humorist (died 1976)
- September 3 – Bessie Delany, African American physician and author (died 1995)
- September 14 – William F. Friedman, cryptographer (died 1969)
- 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 (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)
- December 14 – Katherine MacDonald, silent film actress (died 1956)
- December 26 – Henry Miller, novelist (died 1980)
Undated
- W. Alton Jones, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1962)
Deaths
- January 17 – George Bancroft, historian (born 1800)
- January 29 – William Windom, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1870 till 1881 and from 1881 till 1883. (born 1827)
- February 28 – George Hearst, United States Senator from California from 1887 till 1891. (born 1820)
- March 6
- George M. Chilcott, United States Senator from Colorado from 1882 till 1883. (born 1828)
- Joshua Hill, United States Senator from Georgia from 1871 till 1873. (born 1812)
- June 17 – Harrison Ludington, 13th Governor of Wisconsin from 1876 till 1878. (born 1812)
- June 21 – Joseph E. McDonald, United States Senator from Indiana from 1875 to 1881. (born 1819)
- August 27 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas from 1861 till 1873. (born 1816)
- December 20 – Preston B. Plumb, United States Senator from Kansas from 1877 till 1891. (born 1837)
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