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[[Image:Flag of Alabama.png|right|thumb|275px|Flag of Alabama, adopted 1895]]
'''1895''' was the 24th year after the founding of the City of [[Birmingham]].
'''1895''' was the 24th year after the founding of the City of [[Birmingham]].


==Events==
==Events==
* [[November 23]]: The [[Auburn Tigers football|Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama]] defeated the [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|University of Alabama]] 48-0 in what would later be known as the [[1895 Iron Bowl|Iron Bowl]], the first one played at [[Tuscaloosa]].
[[Image:Stillman College seal.png|right|150px]]
* The [[Apollo Club]] opera troupe founded by [[E. E. Williams]].
* [[January 5]]: [[Blount College]] in [[Oneonta]] burned down.
* [[January 11]]–[[January 23|23]]: The [[Alabama Press Association]] toured Cuba.
* [[February 16]]: The [[Flag of Alabama]] was adopted.
* [[July 6]]: [[Fred Grambs]] led his [[Grambs Military Band]] in a concert for 2,000 listeners at [[Linn Park|Capitol Park]]
* [[October 23]]: [[Buffalo Bill's Wild West]] paraded through [[downtown Birmingham]] and put on shows at [[Smith's Park]].
* The [[Apollo Club]] opera troupe was founded by [[E. E. Williams]].
* [[Birmingham's wards]] were expanded to nine and drawn with an eye toward dispersing African-American voters between wards.
* The [[Birmingham Board of Aldermen]] was expanded to 18 members and direct election of Aldermen by each ward was implemented.
* The [[Birmingham Conservatory of Music]] was founded by [[Benjamin Guckenberger]].
* The [[Birmingham Conservatory of Music]] was founded by [[Benjamin Guckenberger]].
* The [[Nineteenth Century Club]] literary society was founded by [[Hannah Elliot]].
* The first three locks on the [[Black Warrior River]] were completed.
* Women were first admitted to [[Samford University|Howard College]].
* Mount Pinson was renamed simply as [[Pinson]].
* The [[Nineteenth Century Club]] literary society was founded by [[Hannah Elliott]].
* [[Stillman College]] was chartered as a legal corporation by the [[Alabama|State of Alabama]].


===Business===
===Business===
* ''The Daily News'' changed its name to the ''[[Birmingham News|The Birmingham News]]''.
* ''[[The Dixie Home]]'' magazine was founded by [[John Rountree]].
* Industrial manufacturer [[Hardie-Tynes]] was founded.
* Industrial manufacturer [[Hardie-Tynes]] was founded.
* [[Susan Lunsford]] lost ownership of the [[Lunsford Hotel]].
* [[James Mayfield|James]] and [[Diva Brown|Diva Mayfield]] produced bottled sodas for Atlanta's Cotton States Exposition.
* The [[O'Brien Opera House]] was purchased by [[Charles Whelan]].
* The [[Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company]] moved its headquarters to Birmingham.
* [[Windham Construction]] was founded by [[Thomas C. Windham]].
* [[J. T. Massey]] founded a mercantile store on [[2nd Avenue North]].
* The [[Mary Lee Railroad]] was created.
* [[Jacob Burger]] founded [[Burger Dry Goods]].
* [[Louis Saks Clothiers]] moved to the new [[1895 Louis Saks building]].
===Religion===
[[Image:Morris Newfield 1911.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Morris Newfield]]
* [[December 27]]: [[McElwain Baptist Church]] was founded in [[McElwain]].
* [[James Carey]] succeeded [[Matthew Blease]] as pastor of [[Trinity Methodist Church (Southside)]].
* [[SS. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church]] was founded as a Roman Catholic mission in [[Brookside]].
* [[Alfred Moeller]] succeeded [[C. E. Scheibe]] as pastor of [[First Lutheran Church|Zion Lutheran Church]].
* [[Morris Newfield]] succeeded [[David Marx]] as rabbi of [[Temple Emanu-El]].
* [[WaterStone Church|Warrior Baptist Church]] became Warrior Missionary Baptist Church.
* [[J. Q. A. Wilhite]] succeeded [[J. W. White]] as pastor of [[Sixth Avenue Baptist Church]].
=== Sports ===
* [[John Heisman]] began coaching the [[Auburn Tigers football|Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama's football team]].
* [[University of Alabama|Alabama]] joined the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
* [[September 14]]: [[Carlton Molesworth]] made his Major League debut on the mound for the Washington Nationals.
* [[November 23]]: The [[Auburn Tigers football|A&M College of Alabama]] defeated the [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|University of Alabama]] 48-0 in what would later be known as the [[1895 Iron Bowl|Iron Bowl]], the first one played at [[Tuscaloosa]].


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== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
[[Image:Oscar Underwood.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Underwood c. 1910-15]]
* [[Henry Gray]] was elected president of the [[People's Bank & Trust Company]].
* [[Victor Hanson]] took a post with the ''Baltimore World''.
* [[William Mailly]] began serving as Associate Editor of the ''[[Birmingham Labor Advocate]]''.
* [[Robert A. Morris]] was appointed chief clerk in the department of estates in the [[Jefferson County Probate Court]].
* [[Thomas Duke Parke]] became the [[Birmingham City Physician]].
* [[John Phillips]] became president of the Southern Educational Association.
* [[N. F. Thompson]] became an industrial agent for the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
* [[Oscar Underwood]] was elected as Representative of the [[9th Congressional District of Alabama]].


===Births===
===Births===
* [[Frank Cross, Sr]], pastor of [[Ensley Highlands Presbyterian Church]]
* [[February 7]]: [[Lula Mehaffey]], [[Howard College]]'s first female graduate
* [[Glenn Messer]], aviation pioneer
* [[March 16]]: [[Clarence Mullins]], District Court Judge
* April: [[John Rice]], Presbyterian minister
* [[July 12]]: [[Glenn Messer]], aviation pioneer
* [[September 3]]: [[John Bryan]], educator and [[Birmingham City Council]] member
* [[September 27]]: [[William Badham]], World War I Flying Ace
* [[October 25]]: [[William Van de Graaff]], football coach and army officer
* [[Frank Cross Sr]], pastor of [[Ensley Highlands Presbyterian Church]]
 
=== Graduations===
* [[William Bankhead]] from Georgetown University, law degree
* [[Isaac Beatty, Jr]] from [[Birmingham High School]]
* [[Ulysses Mason]] from the Meharry Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee
* [[Morris Newfield]], Bachelor of Arts from the the University of Cincinnati
* Morris Newfield, Master of Arts from the Theological College of the University of Budapest
 
[[Image:Henry M Caldwell.jpg|right|125px|thumb|H. M. Caldwell]]
 
===Marriages===
* [[June 5]]: Widowed educator [[A. H. Parker]] to the former [[Bessie Parker|Bessie D. Pettiford]].
* [[October 22]]: Banker [[William Harding]] to the former [[Amanda Harding|Amanda Moore]].
* [[December 18]]: Newspaper reporter [[Edward Barrett]] to the former Janie Southerlin Smith.
* Publisher [[John Rountree]] to the former [[Maude McIver]].
* Surgeon [[Arthur Brown]] to [[Mamie Lou Brown|Mamie Lou Coleman]].


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===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[February 22]]: [[Ernest Loosley]], bicycle repairman and merchant
* [[May 3]]: [[Campbell Wallace]], railroad executive and shareholder in the [[Elyton Land Company]]
* [[May 27]]: [[Goldsmith Hewitt II]], former US Representative
* [[August 7]]: [[Henry Caldwell]], president of the [[Elyton Land Company]]
* [[August 7]]: [[Henry Caldwell]], president of the [[Elyton Land Company]]
* [[August 17]]: [[Robert Mustin]], entrepreneur
* [[October 29]]: [[Peter Zinszer]], merchant
* [[December 3]]: [[John Cullmann]], founder of [[Cullman]]
* [[December 3]]: [[John Cullmann]], founder of [[Cullman]]


==Works==
==Works==
[[Image:Powell Ave Steam Plant 1908.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Powell Avenue Steam Plant in 1908]]
===Buildings===
===Buildings===
* Tower and portico of [[Cathedral Church of the Advent]]
* [[C. T. Davidson residence]]
* [[C. T. Davidson residence]]
* [[Powell Avenue Steam Plant]]
* [[Powell Avenue Steam Plant]]
* [[G. H. Stevenson residence]]
* [[G. H. Stevenson residence]]
* The original [[Woodlawn City Hall]]
* The original [[Woodlawn City Hall]] on [[1st Avenue North]]
* The [[Fox Building]] for [[Fox and Sons Grocery]] at [[19th Street North|19th Street]] and [[4th Avenue North]]
* [[Mabson Hotel|Thomson House]] hotel at [[22nd Street North|22nd Street]] and [[3rd Avenue North]]
* [[1895 Louis Saks building]]
* [[6th Avenue Presbyterian Church|First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Birmingham]]
* [[Raden building]] at [[2nd Avenue South|Avenue B]] and [[22nd Street South|22nd Street]]
 
====Demolitions====
* [[Marre building]]/[[Ruby Saloon]]
 
==Context==
In 1895, Mintonette, later known as volleyball, was created.  Oscar Wilde's last play ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' was first shown.  The Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the first Sino-Japanese War.  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.  Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.  Auguste and Louis Lumière displayed their first moving picture film in Paris.
 
Notable books published in 1895 included ''The Red Badge of Courage'' by Stephen Crane, ''The Second Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling, and ''The Time Machine'' by H. G. Wells.  Notable music composed in 1895 included "America the Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates and Samuel A. Ward, "The Band Played On" by John F. Palmer and Charles B. Ward, and ''Cello Concerto in B minor'' by Antonín Dvořák.


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Notable births in 1895 included FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, baseball player Babe Ruth, comedian Shemp Howard, actor Rudolph Valentino, boxer Jack Dempsey, actor Buster Keaton, and King George VI of the United Kingdom.  Notable deaths included ex-slave and author Frederick Douglass, painter Berthe Morisot, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, philosopher Friedrich Engels, microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur, and inventor Ányos Jedlik.
In 1895,  


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Latest revision as of 14:59, 15 March 2024

Flag of Alabama, adopted 1895

1895 was the 24th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

Stillman College seal.png

Business

Religion

Morris Newfield

Sports

Individuals

Underwood c. 1910-15

Births

Graduations

H. M. Caldwell

Marriages

Deaths

Works

Powell Avenue Steam Plant in 1908

Buildings

Demolitions

Context

In 1895, Mintonette, later known as volleyball, was created. Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest was first shown. The Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the first Sino-Japanese War. A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. Auguste and Louis Lumière displayed their first moving picture film in Paris.

Notable books published in 1895 included The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. Notable music composed in 1895 included "America the Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates and Samuel A. Ward, "The Band Played On" by John F. Palmer and Charles B. Ward, and Cello Concerto in B minor by Antonín Dvořák.

Notable births in 1895 included FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, baseball player Babe Ruth, comedian Shemp Howard, actor Rudolph Valentino, boxer Jack Dempsey, actor Buster Keaton, and King George VI of the United Kingdom. Notable deaths included ex-slave and author Frederick Douglass, painter Berthe Morisot, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, philosopher Friedrich Engels, microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur, and inventor Ányos Jedlik.

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