1876 in the United States
List of events
Events from the year 1876 in the United States .
Incumbents
Michael C. Kerr (D -Indiana ) (until August 19)
Samuel J. Randall (D -Pennsylvania ) (starting December 4)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : George S. Houston (Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas : Augustus Hill Garland (Democratic )
Governor of California : William Irwin (Democratic )
Governor of Colorado : John Long Routt (Republican ) (starting August 1)
Governor of Connecticut : Charles R. Ingersoll (Democratic )
Governor of Delaware : John P. Cochran (Democratic )
Governor of Florida : Marcellus Stearns (Republican )
Governor of Georgia : James M. Smith (Democratic )
Governor of Illinois : John Lourie Beveridge (Republican )
Governor of Indiana : Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic )
Governor of Iowa : Cyrus C. Carpenter (Republican ) (until January 13), Samuel J. Kirkwood (Republican ) (starting January 13)
Governor of Kansas : Thomas A. Osborn (Republican )
Governor of Kentucky : James B. McCreary (Democratic )
Governor of Louisiana : William Pitt Kellogg (Republican )
Governor of Maine : Nelson Dingley, Jr. (Republican ) (until January 5), Seldon Connor (Republican Party ) (starting January 5)
Governor of Maryland : James B. Groome (Democratic ) (until January 12), John Lee Carroll (Democratic ) (starting January 12)
Governor of Massachusetts : William Gaston (Democratic ) (until January 6), Alexander H. Rice (Republican ) (starting January 6)
Governor of Michigan : John J. Bagley (Republican )
Governor of Minnesota : Cushman K. Davis (Republican ) (until January 7), John S. Pillsbury (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi : Adelbert Ames (Republican ) (until March 29), John M. Stone (Democratic ) (starting March 29)
Governor of Missouri : Charles Henry Hardin (Democratic )
Governor of Nebraska : Silas Garber (Republican )
Governor of Nevada : Lewis R. Bradley (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Person C. Cheney (Republican )
Governor of New Jersey : Joseph D. Bedle (Democratic )
Governor of New York : Samuel J. Tilden (Democratic ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina : Curtis Hooks Brogden (Republican )
Governor of Ohio : William Allen (Democratic ) (until January 10), Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Oregon : La Fayette Grover (Democratic )
Governor of Pennsylvania : John F. Hartranft (Republican )
Governor of Rhode Island : Henry Lippitt (Republican )
Governor of South Carolina : Daniel Henry Chamberlain (Republican ) (until December 14), Wade Hampton III (Democratic ) (starting December 14)
Governor of Tennessee : James D. Porter (Democratic )
Governor of Texas : Richard Coke (Democratic ) (until December 21), Richard B. Hubbard (Democratic ) (starting December 21)
Governor of Vermont : Asahel Peck (Republican ) (until October 5), Horace Fairbanks (Republican ) (starting October 5)
Governor of Virginia : James L. Kemper (Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia : John J. Jacob (Democratic )/(Independent )
Governor of Wisconsin : William Robert Taylor (Democratic ) (until January 3), Harrison Ludington (Republican ) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant governors
Events
"Centennial Mirror", showing events from 1776 (left) compared with similar events in 1876 (right)
January–March
April–June
April 17 – Friends Academy is founded by Gideon Frost at Locust Valley, New York .
May 10 – The Centennial Exposition begins in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
May 18 – Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas , serving under Marshal Larry Deger.
May 29 – Senate votes 37 to 29 that Secretary of War William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and impeachment , despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.
June 4 – The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad , 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City .
June 11 – Rutherford B. Hayes selected by the Republicans as presidential candidate.
June 17 – Indian Wars : Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook 's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory .
June 25 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn – an army under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer is defeated by 1,500-2,500 Lakota , Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse , suffering over 300 casualties.
June 27 – Samuel J. Tilden selected by the Democrats as presidential candidate.
July–September
October–December
Undated
Emile Berliner invents an improved form of microphone which will be adopted for Alexander Graham Bell 's telephone.[5]
Meharry Medical College is founded in Nashville, Tennessee , as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College ; it is the first medical school for African Americans in the South .
Lyford House, by Richardson Bay , Tiburon, California is constructed.
Heinz Tomato Ketchup introduced.
Adolphus Busch 's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis , Missouri , first markets Budweiser , a pale lager , as a nationally sold beer .
Melville Reuben Bissell files a patent for an improved carpet sweeper .[6]
First carousel at Coney Island built by Charles I. D. Looff .
Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River , creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains .
Ongoing
Sport
Births
January 12
January 23 – Bess Houdini , stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini (died 1943 )
February 4 – Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn , poet and socialist (died 1959 )
February 16 – Mack Swain , actor and vaudevillian (died 1935 )
March 5 – John Flammang Schrank , attempted assassin of Theodore Roosevelt (died 1943 )
March 11 – Carl Ruggles , composer (died 1971 )
March 21 – Walter Tewksbury , track athlete (died 1968 )
March 31 – William H. Dieterich , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1933 to 1939 (died 1940 )
April 9 – Park Trammell , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1917 to 1936 (died 1936 )
April 23 – Mary Ellicott Arnold , social activist (died 1968 )
June 5 – Tony Jackson , jazz pianist (died 1920 )
July 12 – Alphaeus Philemon Cole , portrait painter (died 1988 )
August 8 – Pat McCarran , Democratic United States Senator from Nevada from 1933 until 1954 (died 1954 )
August 18 – George B. Martin , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1918 to 1919 (died 1945 )
September 13 – Sherwood Anderson , novelist (died 1941 )
September 16
September 26 – Edith Abbott , social worker and educator (died 1957 )
October 10 Nash; William James Bryan , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1907 to 1908 (died 1908 )
November 23 – Thomas M. Storke , U.S. Senator from California from 1938 to 1939 (died 1971 )
November 24 – Walter Burley Griffin , architect (died 1937 )
November 29 – Nellie Tayloe Ross , 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953; first female state governor in the U.S. (died 1977 )
December 9 – Pauline Whittier , golfer (died 1946 )[8]
December 12 – Alvin Kraenzlein , hurdler (died 1928 )
December 20 – Walter Sydney Adams , astronomer (died 1956 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 10 – Gordon Granger , U.S. and Union Army general (born 1822 )
January 15 – Eliza McCardle Johnson , First Lady of the United States , Second Lady of the United States (born 1810 )
February 18 – Charlotte Cushman , actress (born 1816 )
April 9 – Charles Goodyear , politician (born 1804 )
April 23 – Archibald Dixon , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1852 to 1855 (born 1802 )
May 7 – William Buell Sprague , clergyman and biographer (born 1795 )
June 20 – John Neal , eccentric and influential writer, critic, lecturer, and activist (born 1793 )[10]
June 25 – George Armstrong Custer , U.S. Army colonel (in battle) (born 1839 )
August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok , gunfighter and gambler (murdered) (born 1837 )
August 23 – Joseph R. Underwood , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1847 to 1853 (born 1791 )
September 27 – Braxton Bragg , U.S. and Confederate Army general (born 1817 )
October 1 – James Lick , land baron (born 1796 )
December 3 – Samuel Cooper , United States Army officer during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican–American War , highest-ranking Confederate general during the American Civil War (born 1798 )
December 9 – George Trenholm , 2nd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1807 )
See also
References
^ Roth, Cheyna (December 28, 2023). "My Favorite Victorian Criminal Was a Bank Robber With a Secret Weapon" . Slate . ISSN 1091-2339 . Retrieved January 6, 2024 .
^ Dewey, Melvil (1876). A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library . OCLC 78870163 . Retrieved July 31, 2012 .
^ A Correspondent (March 21, 1876). "The Carnal Rain – Careful Investigation of the Kentucky Marvel" (PDF) . New York Herald . p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2018.
^ U.S. Patent #174,466.
^ "Birth of the Microphone: How Sound Became Signal" . Wired . ISSN 1059-1028 . Retrieved September 19, 2023 .
^ Baxter, Albert (1891). History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan . Munsell.
^ "Warren Hugh Twining" . Political Graveyard. Retrieved November 7, 2011 .
^ "Olympedia – Polly Whittier" . www.olympedia.org . Retrieved July 20, 2021 .
^ Bell, John L. Hard Times : Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1982. Print.
^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal . Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 080-5-7723-08 .
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