1894 in the United States
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| Years: | 1891 1892 1893 – 1894 – 1895 1896 1897 |
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Events from the year 1894 in the United States.
Contents
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)
- Congress: 53rd
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Events
Hershey chocolate is first sold. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- March 12 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
- March 25 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs from Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
- May 1
- Coxey's Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
- The May Day Riots of 1894 break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
- May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
- July – A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
- July 4 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- September 1 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
- September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
- November 5 – West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.
Undated
- In the U.S., the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
- In the U.S., the National Society of Pershing Rifles is founded at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Chatham Episcopal Institute (now known as Chatham Hall ) is founded in Chatham, Virginia, USA.
- Frederick W. Tamblyn founded Tamblyn Studio & School of Penmanship which later became Ziller of Kansas City the oldest Calligraphy Studio in United States.
- National Civic League established.[1]
Ongoing
- Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
- Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
- Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
- Panic of 1893 (1893–1894)
Births
- February 25 – Frank P. Briggs, United States Senator from Missouri from 1945 till 1947. (died 1992)
- March 14 – Osa Johnson (née Leighty), adventurer and filmmaker, wife of Martin Johnson (died 1953)
- March 31 – Francis T. Maloney, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1935 till 1945. (died 1945)
- June 5 – James Glenn Beall, United States Senator from Maryland from 1953 till 1965. (died 1971)
- August 29 – Henry Dworshak, United States Senator from Idaho from 1946 till 1949 and from 1949 till 1962. (died 1962)
- October 4 – Patrick V. McNamara, United States Senator from Michigan from 1955 till 1966. (died 1966)
- October 9 – Ernest McFarland, United States Senator from Arizona from 1941 till 1953. (died 1984)
- November 23 – Andrew Frank Schoeppel, United States Senator from Kansas from 1949 till 1962. (died 1962)
- December 29 – J. Lister Hill, United States Senator from Alabama from 1938 till 1969. (died 1984)
Deaths
- January 15 – Henry Mower Rice, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1858 till 1863. (born 1816)
- February 4 – Morton S. Wilkinson, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1859 till 1865. (born 1819)
- February 28 – James W. McDill, United States Senator from Iowa from 1881 till 1883. (born 1834)
- March 26 – Alfred H. Colquitt, United States Senator from Georgia from 1883 till 1894. (born 1824)
- March 28 – George Ticknor Curtis, author, lawyer and historian (born 1812)
- April 15 – James Harvey, United States Senator from Kansas from 1874 till 1877. (born 1833)
- April 30 – Francis B. Stockbridge, United States Senator from Michigan from 1887 till 1894. (born 1826)
- June 20 – Bishop W. Perkins, United States Senator from Kansas from 1892 till 1893. (born 1841)
- September 1
- Boston Corbett, England-born Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth (born 1832)
- Samuel J. Kirkwood, United States Senator from Iowa from 1881 till 1882. (born 1813)
- November 30 – Joseph E. Brown, United States Senator from Georgia from 1880 till 1891. (born 1821)
- December 19 – James L. Alcorn, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1871 till 1877. (born 1816)
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