1891
1891 was the 20th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- February 18: Oneonta was incorporated.
- Mercy Home was founded by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
Business
- The original Golden Rule Bar-B-Q opened in what is now Irondale.
Individuals
Births
- June 10: Frank Hartley Anderson, architect and artist
- June 18: Luther Hollums, Birmingham Police Chief
- June 26: Octavus Roy Cohen, author
- November 24: Ben Gross, radio critic
- Jenks Gillem, college football coach
- Jimmy Morgan, President of the Birmingham City Commission
Deaths
- March 9: Josiah Morris, co-founder of Birmingham
Works
Buildings
- Birmingham Water Works Dam
- First United Methodist Church
- Trinity Methodist Church (Southside), demolished c. 1926
Context
In 1891, The Chilean Civil War was fought. The first working escalator ("inclined elevator") is invented. The Wrigley Company was founded in Chicago. The London-Paris telephone system was opened. The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) had its grand opening. The first public demonstration of a prototype Kinetoscope was given at Thomas Edison's lab. Stanford University in California opened. Asteroid 323 Brucia became the first asteroid discovered using photography. James Naismith invented basketball. Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil.
Notable books published in 1891 included The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle, Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, L'Argent by Émile Zola. Notable music released included "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" by Henry J. Sayers, "The Laughing Song" by George W. Johnson, and Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano by Carl Nielsen.
Notable births in 1891 included physicist Walther Bothe, Chief Justice Earl Warren, composer Cole Porter, wrestler Man Mountain Dean, and writer Henry Miller. Notable deaths included Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, painter Georges Seurat, showman P. T. Barnum, poet and essayist James Russell Lowell, inventor Pierre Lallement, and novelist Herman Melville.
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