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Events from the year1888 in the United States.

• President:Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• Vice President:vacant
• Chief Justice:

Morrison Waite (Ohio) (until March 23)

Melville Fuller (Illinois) (starting October 8)

• Speaker of the House of Representatives:John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
• Congress:50th

• January 13 – TheNational Geographic Society is founded inWashington, D.C.
• February 27 – InWest Orange, New Jersey,Thomas Edison meets withEadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme forsound film.
• March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah, (laterUtah State University) is founded inLogan, Utah.
• March 11 – The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along theEast Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• March 25 – Opening of an internationalCongress for Women's Rights organized bySusan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of theInternational Council of Women, a key event in the international women's movement.
• May 1 –Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is established by theUnited States Congress.
• May 5 – TheInternational Association of Machinists is founded inAtlanta, Georgia.
• June 3 –Ernest Thayer'sbaseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions toThe San Francisco Examiner.
• June 19 – The Republican Convention opens at theAuditorium Building, Chicago.Benjamin Harrison andLevi Morton win the nominations forPresident andVice President, respectively.
• July 25 –Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person usingtouch 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 isreelected the 27thgovernor of Alabama defeatingW. T. Ewing.
• August 10 –Lynching of Amos Miller: 23-year-old African American farmhand Amos Miller is hanged by a mob from the balcony ofWilliamson County Courthouse (Franklin, Tennessee).
• August 25 –William Seward Burroughs patents theadding machine.
• September 4 –Eastman Kodak Company founded byGeorge Eastman.
• September 8 –President of the United StatesGrover 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 – Themediumship of theFox sisters is confessed to be fraudulent.
• October 9 – TheWashington Monument officially opens to the general public in D.C.
• November 6 –1888 United States presidential election:Democratic Party incumbentGrover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses theElectoral College vote toRepublican challengerBenjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
• November 27 – The sororityDelta Delta Delta is founded atBoston University.
• November 29 – Celebration ofThanksgiving and the first day ofHanukkah coincide.
• December 1 – TheWashington Bridge opens to permit-holding pedestrians over theHarlem River inNew York City, connecting the boroughs ofManhattan andThe Bronx.^[1]

• TheBaldwin School is founded inBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, as "Miss [Florence] Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory forBryn Mawr College".
• Globalpharmaceutical andhealth care brands are founded:
  • G.D. Searle byGideon Daniel Searle inOmaha, Nebraska.^[2]
  • Abbott Laboratories as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott inIllinois.^[3]
• Katz's Delicatessen is founded on theLower East Side ofManhattan.
• New Mexico State University is founded inLas Cruces, New Mexico.

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)

• October 25 – TheNew York Giants clinch their FirstNational League Championship series with an 11–3 win over theSt. 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 wins the ConsensusCollege Football National Championship

• January 1 –John Garand, inventor and designer of theM1 Garand (died1974)^[4]
• January 16 –Robert Henry English, admiral (died1943)^[5]
• c.January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly),folk andblues singer (died1949)
• February 22 –Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine from 1941 to 1952 (died1961)
• February 25 –John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959 (died1959)
• March 4 –Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (died1931)
• March 10 –Ilo Wallace,Second Lady of the United States as wife ofHenry A. Wallace (died1981)
• March 26 –Gerald Murphy, socialite (died1964)
• March 29 –James E. Casey, businessman and founder ofUPS (died1983)
• April 8 –Dennis Chávez, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1935 to 1962 (died1962)
• April 26 –Anita Loos, writer (died1981)
• May 11
  • Irving Berlin, composer (died1989)
  • Willis Augustus Lee, admiral and sport shooter (died at sea1945)
• May 15 –John E. Miller, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1937 to 1941 (died1981)
• June 3 –Tom Brown, jazz musician (died1958)
• June 6 –Pete Wendling, composer, pianist and piano roll recording artist (died1974)
• June 16 –Peter Stoner, mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (died1980)
• June 23 –F. Ryan Duffy, judge and politician (died1979)
• July 5 –Herbert Spencer Gasser, physiologist, winner of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1944 (died1963)
• July 8 –John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (died1947)
• July 10 –Hazel Abel, U.S. Senator from Nebraska in 1954 (died1966)
• July 20 –Geneve L. A. Shaffer, realtor, lecturer and author (died1976)
• July 22 –Kirk Bryan, geologist (died1950)
• July 23 –Raymond Chandler, novelist (died1959)
• July 31 –William Warren Barbour, U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1931 to 1937 (died1943)
• August 5 –George W. Christians, founder of the Crusader White Shirts (died1983)
• August 6 –Stephen Galatti,American Field Service director (d.1964)
• August 16 –Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (died1943)
• August 19 –Sam G. Bratton, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1925 to 1933 (died1963)
• September 2 –Charles C. Gossett, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1945 to 1946 (died1974)
• September 6 –Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., politician (died1969)
• September 26
  • J. Frank Dobie, folklorist and journalist (died1964)
  • T. S. Eliot, American-born poet, winner of theNobel Prize in Literature in 1948 (died1965 in the United Kingdom)
• October 4 –Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (died1961)
• October 7 –Henry A. Wallace, 33rdvice president of the United States from 1941 to 1945 (died1965)
• October 16
  • Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (died1953)
  • Paul Popenoe, eugenicist (died1979)
• October 20 –Milton C. Portmann Professional football player, WWI Army Officer, Attorney. (died1967)
• October 30 –Alan Goodrich Kirk, admiral (died1963)
• November 13 –Philip Francis Nowlan,science fiction writer, creator of theBuck Rogers character (died1940)
• November 17 –J. Melville Broughton, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1948 to 1949 (died1949)
• November 23 –Harpo Marx, comedian (died1964)
• November 24 –Roy Earl Parrish, politician (died1918)^[6]
• November 28 –Edgar Church,comic book collector (died1978)
• December 18 –Robert Moses, public works director (died1981)

• January 21 –Adolph Douai, German-American socialist and abolitionist newspaper editor, journalist and teacher (born1819)
• February 8 –Robert H. Anderson, infantry officer in theUnited States Army andbrigadier general in theConfederate States Army (born1835)
• February 11 –William Kelly, inventor (born1811)
• March 4 –Amos Bronson Alcott, educator and writer (born1799)
• March 6 –Louisa May Alcott, author (born1832)^[7]
• March 7 –Christopher Memminger, German-born American politician, 1stConfederate States Secretary of the Treasury (born1803)
• March 19 –John Pendleton King, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1833 to 1837 (born 1799)
• March 23 -Morrison Waite, 7thChief Justice of the Supreme Court (born1816)
• April 18 –Roscoe Conkling, leader of theStalwart faction of the Republican Party (born1829)
• May 6 –Abraham Joseph Ash, rabbi (born c. 1813)^[8]
• July 23 –Williams Carter Wickham, lawyer, politician, andConfederate general (born1820)
• August 14 –Charles Crocker, railroad executive (born1822)
• August 16 –John Pemberton, pharmacist and inventor ofCoca-Cola (born1831)
• August 22 –Charles W. Cathcart, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1853 (born1809)
• September 30 –Eunice Newton Foote, physicist and women's rights campaigner (born1819)
• October 16 –John Wentworth, mayor ofChicago from 1857 to 1858 and 1860 to 1861 (born1815)
• November 20 –Nathaniel Currier, illustrator (born1813)
• December 18 –Eagle Woman,Lakota leader (born1820)

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