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[[Image:Horgan Flying Wedge (1893).jpg|thumb|right|400px|"The Flying Wedge", photographed during the [[1893 Iron Bowl]] by [[John Horgan, Jr]].]]
'''1893''' was the 22nd year after the founding of the City of [[Birmingham]].
'''1893''' was the 22nd year after the founding of the City of [[Birmingham]].


==Events==
==Events==
* The [[Panic of 1893]] pushed the nation into a financial crisis.
* February: A section of [[Lane Park]] on the west side of Cahaba Road was dedicated as a pauper's cemetery.
* [[April 6]]: The [[Avondale Town Hall]] burned to the ground.
* [[June 17]]: [[Mrs Willis' Boarding House]] in [[Avondale]] was destroyed by fire.
* [[July 12]]: The [[Birmingham Dental College]] was incorporated.
* [[September 7]]: The [[Southern Female University]] commenced its second fall session at [[Lakeview Park]].
* [[September 30]]: At the request of [[Julia Tutwiler]], a faculty committee approved the conditional enrollment of female students at the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[December 6]]: The [[Southern Female University]] burned down.
* The town of [[Highland]] was annexed into Birmingham.
* The town of [[Highland]] was annexed into Birmingham.
* [[Ben M. Jacobs]], a volunteer observer, began recording [[Weather Forecast Office Birmingham|daily weather observations]] (except on Sundays).
* [[Arthur W. McGaha]] succeeded [[Benjamin Franklin Riley]] as [[List of Samford University presidents|president of Howard College]].
* The [[Southern Club|Komus Club]] changed its name to the [[Southern Club]].


===Business===
===Business===
* May: The [[Birmingham Commercial Club]] was founded as a general businessmen's association.
* [[August 2]]: [[AmSouth Bank|First National Bank of Birmingham]] failed.
* [[Nelson Barker]] succeeded [[William Cameron]] as president of First National Bank of Birmingham.
* [[October 9]]: First National Bank of Birmingham resumed operations.
* November: The [[Tutwiler Coal, Coke and Iron Company]] was founded.
* Attorney [[John Altman]] formed a partnership with [[W. D. Bulger]].
* The [[Birmingham Brewing Company (1889)|Birmingham Brewing Company]] went bankrupt.
* The [[Birmingham Brewing Company (1889)|Birmingham Brewing Company]] went bankrupt.
* The [[Red Mountain Railroad Line]] closed.
* [[Jere Dennis]] served as president of the [[Birmingham Trades Council]].
* The [[Red Mountain Railroad]] closed down.


=== Government ===
=== Government ===
[[Image:David Fox.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Birmingham Mayor David Fox]]
* January: [[David Fox]] succeeded [[A. O. Lane]] as [[Mayor of Birmingham]].
* February: The [[Avondale Fire Department]] was formed.
* February: The [[Avondale Fire Department]] was formed.
* February: [[Red Mountain Cemetery]] was formally dedicated.
* [[February 18]]: A mass meeting of workingmen was held at [[Erswell's Hall]] to draft a resolution in support of [[John McQueen]]'s garnishment bill, then under consideration by the [[Alabama State Legislature]].
* The [[9th Congressional District of Alabama]] was created.
* A [[Jefferson County Courthouse Bessemer Division|Jefferson County Circuit Court]] was authorized in [[Bessemer]].
* [[Thomas McDonald]] succeeded [[S. H. Norton]] as [[List of Birmingham police chiefs|Chief of the Birmingham Police Department]].
* [[Samuel Ullman]] became president of the [[Birmingham Board of Education]].
===Religion===
* [[Joshua H. Foster, Jr]] succeeded [[Arthur W. McGaha]] as [[List of pastors of Ruhama Baptist Church|pastor of Ruhama Baptist Church]].
* [[J. D. Ellis]] succeeded [[H. C. Howard]] as pastor of [[East Lake United Methodist Church]].
* [[B. D. Gray]] succeeded [[W. L. Pickard]] as pastor of [[First Baptist Church of Birmingham]].
* [[H. C. Howard]] succeeded [[W. R. Kirk]] as pastor of [[Avondale United Methodist Church]].
* [[Burghard Steiner]] succeeded [[Jacob Fies]] as president of [[Temple Emanu-El]].
* [[Marshall Wells]] succeeded [[Sylvester Blythe]] as pastor of [[Trinity Methodist Church (Southside)]].


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===Sports===
===Sports===
* [[February 22]]: The [[1893 Alabama Crimson Tide|University of Alabama]] played football against the [[1893 Auburn Tigers|Agricultural and Mechanical College in Auburn]] for [[1893 Iron Bowls|the first time]], meeting in Birmingham at the [[Lakeview ball grounds|Base Ball Park]] with A&M College winning 32-22.
* [[February 22]]: The [[1893 Alabama Crimson Tide|University of Alabama]] played football against the [[1893 Auburn Tigers|Agricultural and Mechanical College in Auburn]] for [[1893 Iron Bowls|the first time]], meeting in Birmingham at the [[Lakeview ball grounds|Base Ball Park]] with A&M College winning 32-22.
* [[November 30]]: Alabama and what would become Auburn played for [[1893 Iron Bowls#November|the second time]], meeting at at Riverside Park in Montgomery, with Auburn winning [[40-16]].
* [[November 30]]: Alabama and what would become Auburn played for [[1893 Iron Bowls#November|the second time]], meeting at at Riverside Park in Montgomery, with Auburn winning 40-16.


== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
[[Image:Gene Walker.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Gene Walker]]
* [[George Cruikshank]] was appointed Assistant [[Postmaster of Birmingham]].
* [[Charles Glenn]] began his teaching career as an instructor at the Southwest Alabama State Agricultural School in Evergreen (Conecuh County).
* [[Hilary Herbert]] was appointed as Secretary of the Navy by President Grover Cleveland.
* [[Gus Jebeles (Barons owner)|Gus Jebeles]] emigrated to the United States from Greece.


===Births===
===Births===
* [[February 13]]: [[John Newsome]], one-term congressman
* [[February 15]]: [[Charles McCauley]], architect
* [[March 19]]: [[Orville Coston]], killed in action in [[World War I]].
* [[April 2]]: [[Lawrence Minter]], caretaker at [[Elmwood Cemetery]], was born in Selma, Dallas County.
* [[June 6]]: [[Carl Bottenfield]], [[U.S. Steel]] executive and [[Jefferson County Board of Education]] member
* [[June 7]]: [[Gene Walker]], motorcycle racer
* [[June 7]]: [[Gene Walker]], motorcycle racer
* [[June 17]]: [[Coot Grant]], blues singer
* [[June 17]]: [[Coot Grant]], blues singer
* [[September 7]]: [[Hargrove Van de Graaff]], football player
* [[November 1]]: [[Frank Samford Sr]], insurance executive
* [[Myra Bryant]], civic leader and columnist


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=== Graduations ===
* [[John H. Bankhead, II]] with a law degree.
* [[William Bankhead]] from the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[James Bray]] from Atlanta University.
* [[Hugh Morrow (senator)|Hugh Morrow]] from the [[University of Alabama]] with a bachelor of arts.
* [[Henry Steagall]] from the [[University of Alabama School of Law]]
 
===Marriages===
* [[Thomas Duke Parke]] to the former Amy Smith.
* [[November 25]]: [[Laura Burton]] to steamboat captain Chesley Thomas Bartee.
* [[December 20]]: [[Louis Clark]] to the former [[Mildred Clark|Mildred Jones]].


===Marriages=== -->
===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[March 25]]: [[Abner Killough]], former [[Jefferson County Sheriff]]
* [[March 25]]: [[Abner Killough]], former [[Jefferson County Sheriff]]
* [[June 11]]: [[Nathaniel Lupton]], [[Alabama State Chemist]]
* [[August 21]]: [[Robert Van Hook ]], Disciples of Christ minister
* [[November 28]]: [[Peyton King]], attorney


==Works==
==Works==
[[Image:1893 Birmingham Post Office.jpg|right|thumb|U.S. Court House & Post Office under construction in 1892]]
===Books===
* ''History of the Baptists in Alabama'' by [[Benjamin Franklin Riley]]


===Buildings===
===Buildings===
* [[Anheuser-Busch distribution center]]
* [[Cathedral Church of the Advent]]
* [[Cathedral Church of the Advent]]
* [[Chalifoux Building]]
* [[Chalifoux Building]]
* [[East Lake United Methodist Church]] (damaged beyond repair, early 20th century)
* [[East Lake United Methodist Church]] (damaged beyond repair, early 20th century)
* [[Lunsford Hotel]]
* [[Lunsford Hotel]]
* [[United States Court House and Post Office]] (torn down, 1920s)
* [[St Paul's Cathedral]]
* [[U.S. Court House and Post Office]] (torn down, 1920s)
 
===Demolitions===
* [[Southern Female University]], in the former [[Lakeview Hotel]] at [[Lakeview Park]] burned down.
 
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Image:Paul Hayne School.jpg|[[Paul Hayne School]]
</gallery>


==Context==
==Context==

Latest revision as of 11:22, 8 April 2023

"The Flying Wedge", photographed during the 1893 Iron Bowl by John Horgan, Jr.

1893 was the 22nd year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

Business

Government

Birmingham Mayor David Fox

Religion

Sports

Individuals

Gene Walker

Births

Graduations

Marriages

Deaths

Works

U.S. Court House & Post Office under construction in 1892

Books

Buildings

Demolitions

Gallery

Context

In 1893, Thomas A. Edison finished construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine. Grover Cleveland succeeded Benjamin Harrison as President. The Panic of 1893, a crash on the New York Stock Exchange, started a depression. Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murdering her parents. New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote. The World Parliament of Religions met in Chicago. Arthur Conan Doyle surprised the reading public by killing off his character Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," published in Strand Magazine.

Notable books published in 1893 included Earth Revisited by Byron A. Brooks, Sub-Coelum by Addison Peale Russell, and Le Docteur Pascal by Emile Zola. Notable music released included "The Cat Came Back" by Henry S. Miller, "The Liberty Bell" by John Philip Sousa, "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" by James M. Black, and Symphony No. 9 by Antonín Dvořák.

Notable births in 1893 included singer and comedian Jimmy Durante, actor Leslie Howard, actor Harold Lloyd, businessman Roy O. Disney, actress Mae West, writer Dorothy Parker, comedian Gummo Marx, and Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Notable deaths included former president Rutherford B. Hayes, Supreme Court justice Lucius Quintus Cincinatus Lamar, former Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard, actor Edwin Booth, painter Ford Madox Brown, baseball player Lip Pike, and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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