Episodes Nearest to March 13, 1890 to December 31, 1890: 1 through 25 of 25
- Ice Famine Narrowly Averted
March 13, 1890 to 1890
COPIAH, Mississippi
Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Economy, Urban-Life/BoosterismOn March 13, 1890, the Jackson Weekly Clarion Ledger relayed word from Chicago that the cold weather of the past ten days has been a God-send to the ice men... The Michigan fields are being heavily drawn upon, while the crop in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin is eminently encouraging, thus relieving fears of an ice shortage. This was especially good news for Mr. Beasly of Crystal Springs, Mississippi,...
- Easing City Life with Public Trasportation
August 13, 1890
HENRICO, Virginia
Economy, Migration/TransportationThe expansion of Richmond required an expansion of the transportation system that made it function.Officials announced on August 13, 1890, that there would be additions made to the city's street-car system.It was announced that the tracks on Broad Street would be extended further than they were at that particular time.George Fisher, the general manager of the City Railway and Union Passenger...
- A Change of Churches
August 17, 1890
KING WILLIAM, Virginia
African-Americans, Church/Religious-ActivityFor this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you. (Titus 1:5). Reverend William Troy, of Richmond, preached a powerful sermon, centered on this biblical passage, as he installed the Rev. E C Thomson as the new pastor of the Mangohick Baptist Church in King William County. Thomson, who had attended...
- Remembering the Brave
August 25, 1890
HENRICO, Virginia
Arts/Leisure, GovernmentThere must always be homage paid to those who lost their lives in battle.Even in defeat, the Confederate States honored their unknown fallen.OnAugust 25, 1890, The State newspaper out of Richmond reported that work was being continued on the monument to memorialize these brave men.Workers at the site said that the progress was moving along at a good pace to complete the monument.The stone in which...
- Southern Rhetoric Concerning Womens Suffrage in Relation to African American Suffrage
August 26, 1890
FULTON, Georgia
African-Americans, Politics, WomenThe Atlanta Constitution serves as an example of the negativity of Southern rhetoric concerning women's suffrage and rights in the early post Civil War era. . It also shows the development in rhetoric in the South and how discourse concerning women's suffrage evolved throughout the nineteenth century to discuss the movement more objectively. The more objective tone, which indicates change...
- To Protect and Serve: Overlooked White Crimes
September 3, 1890
ALBEMARLE, Virginia
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Race-RelationsThe black woman was badly injured. She had been close to death for several days and her family was stricken with feelings of uncertainty and anger. They wanted the police officer who had brutally beaten their loved one to be brought to justice, yet this seemed unlikely in Charlottesville, Virginia, a predominantly white city. The family maintained hope that they would finally see...
- American Tobacco Company Established
January 1, 1890 to December 31, 1890
DURHAM, North Carolina
EconomyIn the several years preceding 1890, brothers Ben and Buck Duke initiated several reforms of their tobacco manufacturing business. The brothers' company W. Duke and Sons experienced great success after the innovations. Then in response to concern about other manufacturers, in 1890, the Dukes joined four of their tobacco competitors to the form the American Tobacco Company. The American Tobacco...
- Missouri Farmer Sells Butter in East Because Interstate Railroad Growth
January 1, 1890 to December 31, 1890
KNOX, Missouri
Economy, Migration/TransportationJ.H. Hill, a Missouri creamery owner, produced 43,500 pounds of butter in 1890. He sold all of his butter in the eastern market. Increasing railroad building and growing connections with places like Edina, Missouri made possible the sale of agricultural products across the country. While some like Hill thrived because of this more open trade, others opposed the expansion of markets. They believed...
- Celebrating a Leader
July 2, 1890
HENRICO, Virginia
Arts/Leisure, Economy, GovernmentThe South had not lost its Confederate culture following the end of the Civil War.Those criminalized by the North were made immortal by southerners in the form of monuments.Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne and all six of his family and friends attended the festivities surrounding the laying the cornerstone of the monument for former Confederate President Jefferson Davis on July 2, 1896.The event included...
- Diversity in the Houston Saturday Evening Market
1890
HARRIS, Texas
Arts/Leisure, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-RelationsAs the sun lay low in the evening sky, the Saturday market in Houston sprang to life with a diverse and vivid collection of venders and products. Lee Hardy described how the area was full of venders alone representing every nationality, Americans being far in the minority. Open from 5 PM to 10 PM in the summer, here German traders, who had often traveled more than twenty miles to be present, set...
- A Long Awaited Education
1890
ALBEMARLE, Virginia
African-Americans, Education, Race-RelationsA sense of pride and accomplishment overwhelmed Benjamin Franklin Yancey towards the end of the 1890s. He had finally achieved a dream that he believed would change the lives of generations of young African Americans. Yancey had overcome the obstacles of racist sentiments and segregation that were a widespread aspect of life in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Benjamin Franklin Yancey...
- Susie Clark’s arrival in California by train from Boston
1890
LOS ANGELES, California
Native Americans, Railroad, TransportationDuring the 1890s Susie Champney Clark left Boston on a Raymond & Whitcomb Co. organized railroad trip across the country to California, recording her observations and notes along the way. Though this trip may have seemed impossible to make earlier in the century, as Ms. Clark said in the first chapter of her book The Round Trip from Hub to the Golden Gate, “California [was] much nearer...
- Agriculture in California
1890
MERCED, California
Agriculture, Farming, CaliforniaCalifornia’s land constitutes a diverse terrain. Between the mountain ranges and the coastlines, the deserts and the valleys, the state has always provoked an astonishing wonder from both locals and newcomers. Additionally, the climate proves to be beneficial in certain areas with minimal exposure to winter weather and ideal mild sunshine. The people of the late 19th century acknowledged...
- Potentially Fatal Train Wreck near Ivanhoe, Virginia
June 14, 1890
WYTHE, Virginia
Health/Death, Migration/TransportationOn Saturday, June 14, 1890, a serious accident between a passenger train and material train occurred on the Cripple Creek division of the Norfolk and Western railroad near Ivanhoe, Virginia. The material train ran under orders to meet the passenger train at a switch approximately fourteen miles outside of Ivanhoe. The passenger train apparently ran under no such order and continued toward Ivanhoe....
- Catholicism and other denominations in the South
August 19, 1890 to 1890
NORFOLK CITY, Virginia
Church/Religious-ActivityAccording to Edward Ayers, religion was a Southerner's way of life and they
often justified or condemned something based on religion. Myriad Christian
denominations were active in the South including Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist,
Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, and Quaker, however; the Baptist denomination claimed
the largest following. The Norfolk Virginian,...
- Calling in Sick
October 28, 1890
HENRICO, Virginia
African-Americans, Education, GovernmentThe Richmond Dispatch reported on October 28, 1890, on the status of the Richmond Public Schools.Administrators gathered at the Richmond high school building to discuss enrollment and attendance for the 1890-91 school year.The superintendent, W.F. Fox, reported that enrollment had increased from the previous year.The statistics included a category for blacks as well as whites.Interestingly, enrollment...
- Going North for Education: Nothing Exceptional
May 17, 1890
COLBERT, Alabama
Health/Death, Education, Politics, Migration/Transportation, WomenWas the cat out of the bag? Would the Chicago news reach her parents back home in Tuscumbia before she made it home to tell them in person? On May 17, 1890, the Chicago Tribune ran a special on the miraculous case of Helen Keller; a blind, deaf and dumb child from Alabama. Keller's wealthy parents had sent her up north to a special institution for the blind. According to the article, Keller's...
- An 1890 Constitutional Convention Role Reversal
September, 1890 to December, 1890
HINDS, Mississippi
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Government, Law, Politics, Race-RelationsDuring the 1890 Constitutional Convention in Jackson, Mississippi, two men, at least, seemed to be on the wrong sides of the color line; Marsh Cook, a white Republican from Jasper County, and Isaiah T. Montgomery, eventually the only black representative at the convention, stood up for things taboo to many in their respective communities. The results of each man's stand not only affected them...
- Assassination Conspiracy Uncovered
October 9, 1890 to December 8, 1890
DODGE, Georgia
Crime/Violence, Law, PoliticsOn the evening of October 9, 1890, J.C. Forsythe settled into his library in his Dodge County residence to relax for the night. He was the everyday normal Georgia citizen, working at the Normansdale Lumber Company, managing the estate of Norman Dodge, and even serving as a witness in an ongoing perjury case against another member of the town, Luther A. Hall. No one expected that he would turn up...
- Another Train Wreck
April 30, 1890
AUGUSTA, Virginia
Arts/Leisure, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, WomenRather than going to bed early Sunday night after a long day of church and family time, the city of Staunton spent the evening putting out a fire, only to then have a serious train wreck in the early hours of Monday, April 28, 1890. The No. 2 train on the C&O line from Cincinnati had cars derail after losing air power to the brakes. The train picked up even more speed because there is a descent...
- Alligators Protected to Improve Economy
April 26, 1890
PLAQUEMINES, Louisiana
Agriculture, Economy, Government, PoliticsIn April of 1890, the Police Jury of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana made the decision to prohibit the further killing of alligators. This decision was unfortunate for the fashion industry, as purses, reticules, traveling bags, and footwear were all accessories that could be made out of alligator hide. Apparently, it was fashion's mandate to do so. In Louisiana and Florida, their abundance of...
- Navy Slams Army: The Beginning of a Rivalry
November 29, 1890
ORANGE, New York
Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations, WarCadet Walker of the Army football team races down the sideline in pursuit of the Naval Academy's captain Emerich. Walker finally catches his opponent, and leaps at his chest to try and bring him down. In the fall, Walker's chest is crushed by the Midshipman, and he is unable to rise. His comrades race to his side and pump his lungs until he regains consciousness, and the cadet eventually...
- Farmers' Alliance Leaders in Tennessee Work to Influence Democratic Party before State Governor's Election
January 1, 1890 to July 15, 1890
DAVIDSON, Tennessee
AgricultureAfter its establishment in July 1889, membership of the Farmers' Alliance grew rapidly and reached over 100,000 people in 1890. The Alliance widely proclaimed their goal to influence the Democratic Party. Throughout the year the Alliance engaged in a publicity campaign to sway Party actions and nominations. Newspapers played an important part in this publicity campaign. The Nashville Banner...
- Governor Nominating Conventions in Tennessee Spark Exchange between State Democrats and Republicans
April 3, 1890
DAVIDSON, Tennessee
Race-RelationsIn the time leading up to both the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions for state governor, each party attempted to sort out its ideal choice for candidate. Each party faced the recent legislative actions regarding enfranchisement and elections. As a whole, the Democrats backed the poll-tax law recently enacted by the state legislature and favored the pending registration law. On...
- Debate over Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Sherman Silver Purchase Act
January, 1890 to June, 1890
Washington City, District of Columbia
Agriculture, EconomyThe Sherman Anti-Trust Act represented the first action by the federal government to curb business monopolies. The Act declared the illegality of any contract or combination between business entities that resulted in restraining trade. The Act also granted government attorneys and district courts the authority to investigate these trusts. The Farmers' Alliance actively supported government...