1882
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1882 was the 11th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- May 8: Birmingham's first telephone exchange was established on the third floor of Hughes Drug Store with 39 subscribers.
- The Alabama Insane Hospital finally abandoned altogether the use of shackles, straitjackets and other restraints on patients.
- John Lonnergan purchased the John Looney house.
- The town of Readmon was founded in St Clair County.
- Joseph Riley Smith began developing Smithfield.
- The first systematic weather observations for Birmingham were initiated on behalf of the Signal Service.
Business
- April 12: Sloss Furnaces was blown in.
- April 18: Sloss Furnaces began pouring iron.
- November 14: The O'Brien Opera House opened with a production of Charles Barras' The Black Crook.
- Frank Evans and W. C Garrett reorganized The Daily Age and the Birmingham Iron Age under the Iron Age Publishing Company with Evans as president.
- Moore & Handley Hardware Company was founded by James and Benjamin Moore and W. A. Handley.
- The Southern States Coal, Iron and Land Company was purchased by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company.
Government
- Birmingham issued its first municipal bonds, for construction of the Birmingham City Hall.
- W. P. Brewer became Chief of the Birmingham Fire Department.
- A. O. Lane succeeded Thomas Jeffers as Mayor of Birmingham.
- Ellis Phelan was elected as Alabama's Secretary of State.
- December 1: Edward A. O'Neal succeeded Rufus Cobb as Governor of Alabama.
Religion
- June 28: Temple Emanu-El was founded. Joseph Stolz served as the first rabbi.
- Thomas Beard became rector of Cathedral Church of the Advent.
- First Congregational Christian Church was founded.
- Samuel H. Henderson succeeded Benjamin F. Hendon as pastor of Ruhama Baptist Church.
- Rock Springs Baptist Church was organized in Moody.
- Thomas Walker succeeded Silas Jones as pastor of Second Colored Baptist Church.
Individuals
- November: Attorney James Weatherly moved to Birmingham.
- Henry F. DeBardeleben returned from a brief relocation to Mexico.
- George Raps moved to Birmingham.
- Edmund Rucker moved to Birmingham.
- Architect Charles Wheelock moved to Birmingham.
- J. Q. A. Wilhite was named president of the Foreign Missions Board for the National Baptist Convention.
Births
- January 20: Gus Jebeles, shopkeeper
- October 27: Robert I. Ingalls, businessman
- Irene Hawes, murder victim
Graduations
- W. W. Rose from Ogdensburg Academy.
Marriages
- December 13: James Weatherly to the former Florence Milner in Birmingham.
- Lawyer Rufus Rhodes to the former Margaret Smith.
- Alabama Secretary of State Ellis Phelan to his second wife, the former Mary A. Frisbie.
Deaths
- Charles Linn, sailor, merchant, banker and industrialist
- March 14: Frank Pfaffenschlaeger, Civil War veteran and musician
Works
Buildings
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