1892
1892 was the 21st year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.
Events
- April 1: An explosion at the Sterling Dynamite Factory in Bessemer killed four.
- David J. Fox succeeded A. O. Lane as Mayor of Birmingham].
- St Mark's Academic and Industrial School was established by James Van Hoose for the education of African American children.
Business
- The L & N Railroad purchased the Shelby Iron Company's rail spur stretching from Shelby to Columbiana, making it part of the Birmingham Mineral Railroad.
- The Jefferson County Building and Loan Association was founded by F. M. Jackson.
Government
- August 16: George Morrow succeeded Joseph S. Smith as Jefferson County Sheriff.
Sports
- The first Alabama Crimson Tide football team took the field, ending the year with a 2-2 record.
- The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama footbal team (later known as the Auburn Tigers) also went 2-2 for the season.
- The Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs reorganized.
Individuals
Births
- January 11: Tom Stewart, attorney
- May 13: Leo E. Bashinsky, industrialist, investor and civic leader
- June 12: Blanche Dean, naturalist, author, and educator
- June 15: Wallace Wade, college football coach
- July 4: A. G. Gaston, entrepreneur
- July 14: Nolan Harmon, Methodist bishop
- September 19: Jack Bethea, newspaper reporter, and novelist
Deaths
- April 1: Ed Boykin, dynamite factory worker
- April 1: Frank Boykin, dynamite factory worker
- April 1: George Hartley, dynamite factory worker
- April 1: Walter Lake, dynamite factory worker
Works
Buildings
- Caldwell Bradshaw residence
- South Highland Presbyterian Church
- St Mark's Academic and Industrial School
- Joseph Verchot residence
Context
In 1892, Ellis Island began accommodating immigrants to the United States. James Naismith published the rules for basketball. The General Electric Company was established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company. Abercrombie & Fitch was established by David T. Abercrombie. Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court case. The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Grover Cleveland was elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
Notable books published in 1892 included The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Notable music released included "After the Ball" by Charles K. Harris, "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two") by Harry Dacre, "My Old Dutch" by Albert Chevalier and Charles Ingle, and The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Notable births in 1892 included author J. R. R. Tolkien, film and television producer Hal Roach, actor Oliver Hardy, actor and singer Eddie Cantor, judge Robert H. Jackson, actress Mary Pickford, baseball player Sad Sam Jones, actor William Powell, film producer Jack Warner, physicist Arthur Compton, publisher Alfred A. Knopf Sr, actor Gummo Marx, bodybuilder Charles Atlas, and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Notable deaths included preacher Charles Spurgeon; fashion designer Louis Vuitton; poet Walt Whitman; Bahá'í founder Bahá'u'lláh; poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier; poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and financier Jay Gould.
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