1895 in the United States

1895 in the United States
Years:	1892 1893 1894 – 1895 – 1896 1897 1898
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Events from the year 1895 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois)
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Illinois)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia) (until March 4), Thomas Brackett Reed (R-Maine) (starting December 2)
• Congress: 53rd (until March 4), 54th (starting March 4)

Events

• February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
• March 1 – William Lyne Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General.
• May 27 – In re Debs: The Supreme Court of the United States decides that the federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, legalizing the military suppression of the Pullman Strike.
• June 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
• August 19 – American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• September 3 – The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club (Latrobe wins 12–0).
• September 18 – Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.^[1]
• November 5 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• November 25
  • Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.
  • Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant U.S. interest in the automobile.^[2]
• December 24 – George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, inviting his family and guests to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.

Undated

• W. E. B. Du Bois becomes the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
• The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)

Births

• January 1
  • Bert Acosta, aviator (died 1954)
  • J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 1972)
• January 4 – Leroy Grumman, aeronautical engineer, test pilot and industrialist (died 1982)
• January 11 – Laurens Hammond, inventor (died 1973)
• January 23 – Harry Darby, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1950 (died 1987)
• February 2 – George Halas, football player (died 1983)
• February 6 – Babe Ruth, baseball player (died 1948)
• March 4
  • Shemp Howard, actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) (died 1955)
  • Milt Gross, comic book illustrator and animator (died 1953)
• March 15 – Virgil Chapman, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1949 to 1951 (died 1951)
• March 27 – Ruth Snyder, murderer (died 1928)
• March 28 – Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1985)
• May 2 – Lorenz Hart, lyricist (died 1943)
• May 15 – Prescott Bush, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 (died 1972)
• May 25 – Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer and photojournalist (died 1965 in the United States)
• May 28 – Samuel D. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1944 (died 1951)
• June 10
  • William C. Feazel, U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1948 (died 1965])
  • Hattie McDaniel, African-American film actress (died 1952)
• June 24 – Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxer (died 1983)
• July 12 – Richard Buckminster Fuller, architect (died 1983)
• July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)
• July 26 – Gracie Allen, comic actress (died 1964)
• August 12 – Lynde D. McCormick, admiral (died 1956)
• September 22 – Elmer Austin Benson, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1935 to 1936 and 24th Governor of Minnesota from 1937 till 1939 (died 1985)
• September 29 – Joseph Banks Rhine, parapsychologist (died 1980)
• October 4 – Buster Keaton, born Joseph Frank Keaton, silent film comedian (died 1966)
• October 6 – Caroline Gordon, writer and critic (died 1981)
• October 19 – Lewis Mumford, historian & philosopher of science (died 1990)
• October 23 – Clinton Presba Anderson, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1949 to 1973 (died 1975)
• October 30 – Dickinson W. Richards, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1973)
• November 10 – John Knudsen Northrop, airplane manufacturer (died 1981)
• November 14
  • Walter Freeman, physician (died 1972)
  • Maggie Mae Renfro, supercentenarian (died 2010)
• November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director and choreographer (died 1976)
• December 2 – W. Conway Pierce, chemist (died 1974)
• December 24 – Marguerite Williams, African-American geologist (died 1991?)
• December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink, author (died 1981)

Deaths

• January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, watchmaker (born 1812)
• February 20 – Frederick Douglass, African-American rights activist and former slave (born 1817)
• March 22 – Henry Coppée, historian and biographer (born 1821)
• April 22 – James F. Wilson, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1883 to 1895. (born 1828)
• May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham, politician (born 1832)
• June 23
  • Thomas Shaw, buffalo soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1846)
  • James Renwick, Jr., architect (born 1818)
• June 29 – Green Clay Smith, politician (born 1826)
• July 28 – Edward Beecher, theologian (born 1803)
• August 6 – George Frederick Root, composer (born 1820)
• August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, politician (born 1827)
• October 2 – Robert Crozier, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1874 (born 1827)
• October 8 – William Mahone, civil engineer and Confederate Army major general (born 1826)
• November 4 – Eugene Field, children's author (born 1850)
• Full date unknown – John Miley, Methodist theologian (born 1813)

References

External links

• Media related to 1895 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons