Episodes Nearest to March 1, 1891 to March 31, 1891: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. The Future of Pacfic Trade Due to an Untimely Death
    date March, 1891 to 1891map Pacific, Outside UStags King Kalakana, Pacific Trade, Sandwich Islands, Hawaii

    In march of 1891, King Kalakana had died from an unknown cause in San Francisco within the United States. This death had arroused the citizens of both the continental united states as well as Hawaiian natives who enjoyed visiting San Francisco. The worry that notes itself here comes from certain negotiations that were taking place at the time of his unfortunete death. These negotiations were based...

  2. Italo-American Incident
    date March 14, 1891map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, War

    A mob comprised of 20,000 residents of New Orleans, angered at the failure of a jury to convict the alleged murderers of David C. Hennessy, superintendent of police, attacked the prison in which the accused were still held and lynched 11 of them. Three of the victims were Italian citizens. The Italian government demanded prosecution of the leaders of the mob. This was an example of the accepted...

  3. Brothers embark on mill buying adventure
    date November 20, 1890 to September 11, 1891map LOUISA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Brothers James Bibb and W.E. Bibb decided to invest in building a cotton mill.

    James was a real estate developer and W.E. Bibb was a lawyer. They corresponded by

    mail over several months trying to get other investors involved and talked about financial

    matters. James was the person who was mostly in charge of this deal although he always

    was asking his brother for...

  4. Abandoned spouse writes to lawyer asking for help with divorce case
    date April 25, 1891map LOUISA, Virginiatags Government, Law, Women

    A Lawyer from Louisa County, W.E. Bibb received a letter from Dealia Ann Smith, a woman from Mineral City requesting help with her divorce case. According to William Cooper, divorce had become more common at this time than in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, however; it was still an anomaly of society. Whether or not Dealia Ann Smith was granted a divorce was not determined in the letter's...

  5. A Lonely Woman Outside Charleston
    date May, 1891map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Women

    A woman identifying herself only as T.S. wrote a letter to the Ladies' Home Journal to express sympathy for another reader, Janet, who had complained of feelings of loneliness and desolation during the winter months in the Sea Islands off of South Carolina. The letter writer explains that she came to South Carolina by way of Vermont and Pennsylvania, and that the level salt marshes with the...

  6. Marriage Roles and Rates
    date January 10, 1891map ACCOMACK, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Marriage was very prominent in 1890 in Accomack, Virginia, and the people sustained well their reputation as marrying people. There were 267 marriages in that year alone, the most occurring in December with 63 marriages. April was the most unpopular month taking only 11 marriages. In 1891 a girl married at the age of 13, which showed that the year 1891 was starting off at a fast pace and that marriage...

  7. Democrats Continue to Oppose a “Force Bill'
    date January 5, 1891map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    The “Force Bill' was a name commonly given to legislation designed to protect black voting rights through federal supervision of congressional elections. Republicans generally supported these bills, but the Democrats fiercely resisted them. An Alabama editor charged that those in the north who were in support of a Force Bill were merely out for the blood of the South.<br /><br...

  8. Emancipation Celebration
    date January 1, 1891map Alexandria City, Virginiatags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations

    African Americans gathered in large numbers in Alexandria on New Year's night, January 1, 1891, to celebrate the twenty-eighth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Magnus L. Robinson, editor of the Weekly Leader noted with chivalry that in Lannon's Opera House every orchestra chair was filled with the fair sex--never have there been before such an array of Afro-American ladies at...

  9. Jim Crows to the Senate-a White Mississippians' Defense of Supremacy
    date December 31, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    On December 31, 1890, Senator James Z. George (D. Miss), a man Dunbar Rowland calls a life-long resident of Carroll County, began his overwhelmingly convincing speech on the Senate Floor defending the newly written Mississippi Constitution. The new constitution, according to Rowland's 1902 reflections, was drafted in order to eliminate ignorance at the ballot box, and Senator George's defense...

  10. West Virginian ex-Confederate Soldiers
    date June 13, 1891map BERKELEY, West Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, War

    More than one-quarter of a century after the civil war ended and the defeat of the Confederate Army, veterans still met quarterly to discuss important business and upcoming events. The business at hand on June 13th, 1891 for Ex-Confederate veterans of Berkley County, West Virginia was to find homes for ex-confederate veterans who were disabled and aged in need of special care. The need for care...

  11. Navy Slams Army: The Beginning of a Rivalry
    date November 29, 1890map ORANGE, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations, War

    Cadet 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...

  12. Tennessee Miner Uprising
    date 1891map ANDERSON, Tennesseetags tennessee, Convict Labor

     

    In Tennessee, the abuse of the convict labor system was putting many coal miners out of work in the late 1800’s.  If an employer was unsatisfied with wages or conduct of his workers, he could hire convicts as employees of the state.  Thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state’s coal companies in 1891.  This involved significant mountain communities...

  13. Assassination Conspiracy Uncovered
    date October 9, 1890 to December 8, 1890map DODGE, Georgiatags Crime/Violence, Law, Politics

    On 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...

  14. An 1890 Constitutional Convention Role Reversal
    date September, 1890 to December, 1890map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    During 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...

  15. Calling in Sick
    date October 28, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Government

    The 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...

  16. Catholicism and other denominations in the South
    date August 19, 1890 to 1890map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    According 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,...

  17. A Confederate Monument is Dedicated
    date August 20, 1891map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, War

    In August of 1891, the people of Charleston, South Carolina turned out to dedicate an Obelisk to the memory of the Washington Light Infantry Regiment, which fought in the defense of the Rebellion. The event featured a sermon by the popular preacher Reverend E.C. Edgerton, who praised the members of the regiment for doing their duty to their state despite the noble but ultimately hopeless cause for...

  18. Cotton strike led by Ben Patterson
    date September 20, 1891 to September 30, 1891map LEE, Arkansastags African-Americans, Agriculture, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    Ben Patterson, a thirty-year old black man from Memphis led a cotton strike of twenty-five men, probably influenced by the call for strike by the Colored Farmer's Alliance. On September 25 a fight broke out between Patterson's men and workers on a plantation that refused to join the strike. Two pickers were killed. In the last week of September, local planters crushed the strike, killing...

  19. To Protect and Serve: Overlooked White Crimes
    date September 3, 1890map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Race-Relations

    The 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...

  20. Grand Opening of the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse
    date October 1, 1891map PITT, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    October 1, 1891 was a day to remember in the history of Greenville in Pitt County, North Carolina. The grand opening of the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse was the beginning of a new era in the prosperity of the town and community. The warehouse would allow the opportunity for farmers in Greenville to sell their tobacco close to home and by opening day, arrangements had already been made to bring in...

  21. Southern Rhetoric Concerning Womens Suffrage in Relation to African American Suffrage
    date August 26, 1890map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Politics, Women

    The 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...

  22. Remembering the Brave
    date August 25, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Government

    There 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...

  23. Black Farmers' Strike
    date September 12, 1891 to November 1, 1891map HOUSTON, Texastags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy

    The Colored Farmer's Alliance organized a Black Farmers' Strike to take place from September 12- November 1, 1891 across the Southern cotton states. Although calls to strike sent from Alliance headquarters in Houston claimed that “The biggest agricultural strike in the history of the world is imminent' and that its “organization has been perfected through colored alliances'...

  24. Norfolk Virginian reports on tobacco output
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Norfolk Virginian reported the acres of farmland that grew tobacco and the

    pounds of tobacco harvested as a result in 1891. There were various counties and big

    producers included Amherst, Bedford, and Prince Edward. Many of these counties

    resided in the Central Virginia region. 24,034 planters planted on 110,579 acres and

    produced 48,522,655 pounds of tobacco...

  25. Advancement of Health and Sanitation in Central Virginia
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Law, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the city of Norfolk on July 21, 1891, Dr. Morgan Health officer of Norfolk

    County, examined the dairies and livestock in the city. The Norfolk Virginian reported

    on the results and also wrote about other issues the Board of Health addressed.

    According to the newspaper, he examined 475 animals with an output of 768 gallons. Dr.

    Morgan's examination yielded results...