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List of events
Events from the year 1879 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Rufus W. Cobb (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
William Read Miller (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
William Irwin (
Democratic )
Governor of Colorado :
John Long Routt (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Frederick Walker Pitkin (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Connecticut :
Richard D. Hubbard (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
Charles B. Andrews (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Delaware :
John P. Cochran (
Democratic ) (until January 21),
John W. Hall (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Governor of Florida :
George Franklin Drew (
Democratic )
Governor of Georgia :
Alfred H. Colquitt (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Shelby Moore Cullom (
Republican )
Governor of Indiana :
James D. Williams (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
John H. Gear (
Republican )
Governor of Kansas :
George T. Anthony (
Republican ) (until January 13),
John P. St. John (
Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Kentucky :
James B. McCreary (
Democratic ) (until September 2),
Luke P. Blackburn (
Democratic ) (starting September 2)
Governor of Louisiana :
Francis T. Nicholls (
Democratic )
Governor of Maine :
Seldon Connor (
Republican ) (until January 8),
Alonzo Garcelon (
Democratic ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Maryland :
John Lee Carroll (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
Alexander H. Rice (
Republican ) (until January 2),
Thomas Talbot (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Governor of Michigan :
Charles Croswell (
Republican )
Governor of Minnesota :
John S. Pillsbury (
Republican )
Governor of Mississippi :
John M. Stone (
Democratic )
Governor of Missouri :
John Smith Phelps (
Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska :
Silas Garber (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Albinus Nance (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Governor of Nevada :
Lewis R. Bradley (
Democratic ) (until January 6),
John H. Kinkead (
Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of New Hampshire :
Benjamin F. Prescott (
Republican ) (until June 5),
Natt Head (
Republican ) (starting June 5)
Governor of New Jersey :
George B. McClellan (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Lucius Robinson (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Zebulon Baird Vance (
Democratic ) (until February 5),
Thomas Jordan Jarvis (
Democratic ) (starting February 5)
Governor of Ohio :
Richard M. Bishop (
Democratic )
Governor of Oregon :
W. W. Thayer (
Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania :
John F. Hartranft (
Republican ) (until January 21),
Henry M. Hoyt (
Republican ) (starting January 21)
Governor of Rhode Island :
Charles C. Van Zandt (
Republican )
Governor of South Carolina :
Wade Hampton III (
Democratic ) (until February 26),
William Dunlap Simpson (
Democratic ) (starting February 26)
Governor of Tennessee :
James D. Porter (
Democratic ) (until February 16),
Albert S. Marks (
Democratic ) (starting February 16)
Governor of Texas :
Richard B. Hubbard (
Democratic ) (until January 21),
Oran M. Roberts (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Governor of Vermont :
Redfield Proctor (
Republican )
Governor of Virginia :
Frederick W. M. Holliday (
Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia :
Henry M. Mathews (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
William E. Smith (
Republican )
Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of California :
James A. Johnson (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado :
Lafayette Head (
Republican ) (until January 14),
Horace Austin Warner Tabor (
Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut :
Francis Loomis (
Democratic ) (until January 9),
David Gallup (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Florida :
Noble A. Hull (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois :
Andrew Shuman (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana :
Isaac P. Gray (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa :
Frank T. Campbell (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas :
Lyman U. Humphrey (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky :
John C. Underwood (
Democratic ) (until September 2),
James E. Cantrill (
Democratic ) (starting September 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana :
Louis A. Wiltz (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts :
Horatio G. Knight (
Republican ) (until January 2),
John D. Long (
Republican ) (starting January 2)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan :
Alonzo Sessions (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota :
James Wakefield (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi :
William H. Sims (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri :
Henry Clay Brockmeyer (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska :
Othman A. Abbott (
Republican ) (until January 9),
Edmund C. Carns (
Republican ) (starting January 9)
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada :
Jewett W. Adams (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of New York :
William Dorsheimer (
Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina :
Thomas J. Jarvis (
Democratic ) (until February 5), vacant (starting February 5)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio :
Jabez W. Fitch (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania :
John Latta (
Democratic ) (until January 21),
Charles Warren Stone (
Republican ) (starting January 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Albert Howard (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina :
William Dunlap Simpson (
Democratic ) (until February 26), vacant (starting February 26)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : Hugh M. McAdoo (
Democratic ) (until month and day unknown),
John R. Neal (
Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant (until January 21),
Joseph Draper Sayers (
Democratic ) (starting January 21)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont :
Eben Pomeroy Colton (
Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia :
James A. Walker (
Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin :
James M. Bingham (
Republican )
Events
December 31:
Edison demonstrates his
light bulb .
January – The constitution of
California is ratified.
January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect: the
Greenback is valued the same as
gold for the first time since the
American Civil War .
February 12 – At
New York City 's
Madison Square Garden , the first artificial
ice rink in
North America opens.
February 15 –
Women's rights :
President
Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female
attorneys to argue cases before the
Supreme Court of the United States .
February 22 – In
Utica, New York ,
Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
March 3 – The
United States Geological Survey is created.
April 8 –
Milk sold in glass bottles for the first time.
April 12 –
Mary Baker Eddy founds the
Church of Christ, Scientist in
Boston .
[1]
May 10
May 30 –
New York City 's Gilmore's Garden is renamed
Madison Square Garden after President
James Madison by
William Henry Vanderbilt , and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
June 21 – Infielder
William White plays in one game for the
Providence Grays and in conjecture becomes the first
African American to play
MLB .
July 1 –
Christian Restorationist
Charles Taze Russell publishes the first issue of the monthly Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence which, as
The Watchtower , will become the
most widely circulated magazine in the world.
July 8 – The ill-fated U.S.
Jeannette Expedition departs San Francisco in an attempt to reach the
North Pole by pioneering a route through the
Bering Strait .
July 19 –
Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's
New Mexico saloon.
September –
Henry George self-publishes his major work
Progress and Poverty .
[2]
September 25 –
Deadwood, South Dakota fire: 2000 people are left homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3 million.
September 29 –
Meeker Massacre :
Nathan Meeker and others are killed in an uprising at the
White River Ute
Indian Reservation in
Colorado .
October 22 – Using a filament of
carbonized thread,
Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric
light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out).
November –
Simmons College of Kentucky , a historically black school, is founded.
December 31 –
Thomas Edison demonstrates
incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in
Menlo Park, New Jersey .
Undated –
Laton Alton Huffman photographs Native American woman
Pretty Nose .
[3]
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 3 –
Grace Coolidge ,
First Lady of the United States and
Second Lady of the United States as wife of
Calvin Coolidge (died
1957 )
January 12
January 13 –
Melvin Jones , founder of
Lions Clubs International (died
1961 )
January 20 –
Ruth St. Denis , dancer (died 1968)
February 3 –
Guy Gillette , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1936 to 1945 (died
1973 )
February 12 –
George McGill , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1930 to 1939 (died
1963 )
February 17 –
Dorothy Canfield Fisher , activist and novelist (died
1958 )
March 6 –
William P. Cronan , 19th
Naval Governor of Guam (died
1929 )
March 18 –
Emma Carus , opera singer (died
1927 )
March 27 –
Edward Steichen , photographer, painter and curator (died
1973 )
April 1 –
Louise Gunning , vaudeville singer (died
1960 )
April 9 –
Thomas Meighan , film actor (died
1936 )
April 14 –
James Branch Cabell , novelist (died 1958)
April 24 –
Oris Paxton Van Sweringen , financier (died 1936)
May 3 –
Clyde L. Herring , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1937 to 1943 (died
1945 )
May 12
May 19
May 22 –
Eastwood Lane , composer (died
1951 )
June 3 –
Raymond Pearl , biologist (died
1940 )
June 13 –
Lois Weber , film director and screenwriter (died
1939 )
June 21 –
Henry Creamer , songwriter (died
1930 )
July 1
July 10 –
Charles P. Snyder , admiral (died
1964 )
July 28 –
Lucy Burns , women's rights campaigner (died
1966 )
August 2 –
James M. Tunnell , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1941 to 1947 (died 1957)
August 8 –
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld , professor of jurisprudence (died
1918 )
August 15 –
Ethel Barrymore , actress (died
1959 )
August 20 –
Ralph Budd , railroad president (died
1962 )
August 27 –
Otis F. Glenn , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1928 to 1933 (died 1959)
August 28 –
Sydney Ayres , silent film actor (died
1916 )
September 13 –
James Larkin Pearson , poet and newspaper publisher,
North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1953 to 1981 (died
1981 )
September 14 –
Margaret Sanger , birth control advocate (died 1966)
[4]
September 19 –
Louis Joseph Vance , novelist (died
1933 )
October 2 –
Wallace Stevens , poet (died
1955 )
October 5 –
Francis Peyton Rous , pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 (died
1970 )
October 12 –
Chris Smith , African American vaudeville composer and performer (died
1949 )
October 15 –
Jane Darwell , née Patti Woodard, actress (died
1967 )
October 21 –
Eugene Burton Ely , pioneer aviator (died
1911 in aviation accident)
November 2 –
Marion Jones Farquhar , tennis player (died
1965 )
[5]
November 4 –
Will Rogers , humorist (died
1935 )
November 5 –
Hannah J. Patterson , suffragist and social activist (died
1937 )
November 10 –
Vachel Lindsay , poet (died
1931 )
November 15 –
Lewis Stone , actor, known for playing Judge Hardy (died
1953 )
November 26 –
Charles Goddard , playwright and screenwriter (died
1951 )
November 28 –
Guy V. Howard , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1936 to 1937 (died
1954 )
December 1 –
Beth Slater Whitson , lyricist (died
1930 )
December 4 –
Richard Von Albade Gammon ,
University of Georgia football fullback (died
1897 )
December 5 –
Clyde Cessna , aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer (died 1954)
December 10 –
Jouett Shouse , politician (died 1968)
December 12 –
Laura Hope Crews , actress (died
1942 )
December 15 –
Bert H. Miller , U.S. Senator from Idaho in 1949 (died
1949 )
December 20 –
Earle Ovington , aviator, flew first experimental airmail (died
1936 )
December 25 –
Grace George , actress (died
1961 )
December 26 –
Christie Benet , U.S. Senator from South Carolina in 1918 (died 1951)
December 28 –
Billy Mitchell , general, military aviation pioneer (died 1936)
Gurdon Chapell
Deaths
February 2 –
Richard Henry Dana Sr. , poet, critic and lawyer (born
1787 )
March 2
March 16 –
George Goldthwaite , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1871 to 1877 (born
1809 )
April 12 –
Richard Taylor ,
Confederate general (born
1826 )
April 30 –
Sarah Josepha Hale , writer (born
1788 )
May 24 –
William Lloyd Garrison , abolitionist (born
1805 )
June 1
June 26 –
Richard H. Anderson ,
United States Army officer during the
Mexican–American War ,
Confederate general during the
American Civil War (born
1821 )
[6]
July 4 –
Sarah Dorsey , novelist and historian (born
1829 )
July 7 –
George Caleb Bingham , realist painter (born
1811 )
July 11 –
William Allen , U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1837 to 1849 (born
1803 )
July 16 –
Frederick Langenheim , pioneer of panoramic photography (born
1809 in Germany )
July 26 –
Robert Ward Johnson , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1862 to 1865 (born
1814 )
August 30 –
John Bell Hood ,
Confederate general (born
1831 )
September 8 –
William Morris Hunt , painter (born
1824 )
September 30 –
Francis Gillette , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1854 to 1855 (born
1807 )
October 11 –
Ethel Lynn Beers , poet (born
1827 )
October 13 –
Henry Charles Carey , economist (born
1793 )
October 31
November 1 –
Zachariah Chandler , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1857 to 1875 and in 1879 (born
1813 )
December 31 –
George S. Houston , Governor of Alabama from 1874 to 1878 and U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1879 (born
1811 )
See also
References
External links