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[[Image:Mardi Gras royals 1898.jpg|right|thumb|255px|Rex Vulcan III & Queen, 1898 [[Mardi Gras]], {{BPL permission caption|http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll6/id/1326}}]]
'''1898''' was the 27th year after the founding of the City of [[Birmingham]].
'''1898''' was the 27th year after the founding of the City of [[Birmingham]].


== Events ==
== Events ==
* [[September 26]]: The [[Country Club of Birmingham]] was founded at [[North Birmingham Park]].
* [[September 26]]: The [[Country Club of Birmingham]] was founded at [[North Birmingham Park]].
* The [[Garden City]] post office was established.
* Efforts to [[Greater Birmingham|bring neighboring communities and municipalities into Birmingham]] began in earnest.
* [[Jemison]] in [[Chilton County]] was incorporated.
* [[St Vincent's Birmingham|St Vincent's Hospital]] was founded by Father [[Patrick O'Reilly]] and four Sisters of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent’s DePaul.
* [[St Vincent's Birmingham|St Vincent's Hospital]] was founded by Father [[Patrick O'Reilly]] and four Sisters of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent’s DePaul.


===Business===
===Business===
* [[February 23]]: The [[Birmingham Railway & Electric Company]] became part of the newly-incorporated [[Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company]].
* [[February 23]]: The [[Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company]] was incorporated, bringing together the [[Birmingham Railway & Electric Company]], [[Consolidated Electric Light Company]], and the [[Birmingham Gas Company]] as a single entity.
* [[Berney's Drug Store]] was established in [[Ensley]].
* [[Berney's Drug Store]] was established in [[Ensley]].
* Real estate firm [[Brown Brothers|Brown Brothers & Company]] was founded.
* [[Angwin Service Funeral Company|Echols and Angwin Funeral Home]] was established in [[Ensley]].
* [[Angwin Service Funeral Company|Echols and Angwin Funeral Home]] was established in [[Ensley]].
<!-- ===Education===
* The [[Ensley Land Company]] made its first official sales of lots.
 
===Education===
* September: [[Birmingham-Southern College|North Alabama Conference College]] opened to students.
* [[John Abercrombie]] began serving as state superintendent of education.


===Government===
===Government===
* [[William Jelks]] was elected to the [[Alabama Senate]] from Barbour County.


===Religion===
===Religion===
* [[A.C. Davidson]] succeeded [[Phillip Hale]] as pastor of [[Southside Baptist Church]].
* [[J. J. Grier]] succeeded [[John Barbour]] as pastor of [[South Highland Presbyterian Church]].
* [[Wylam Presbyterian Church]] was founded.


===Sports=== -->
===Sports===
* The [[Alabama Crimson Tide football]] team only played a single game due to a ban on student athletes traveling.


== Individuals ==
== Individuals ==
* [[William Oliver]] began serving as a solicitor in the [[6th Judicial Circuit of Alabama]].
* [[Henry Walthall]] enlisted in the United States Army's [[First Alabama Regiment]].


===Births===
===Births===
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* [[November 15]]: [[Frank W. Thomas]], college football coach
* [[November 15]]: [[Frank W. Thomas]], college football coach
* [[November 25]]: [[P. H. Polk]], photographer
* [[November 25]]: [[P. H. Polk]], photographer
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===Marriages=== -->
===Graduations===
* [[Robert I. Ingalls]] from Bellefontaine High School in Ohio.
* [[Lloyd Noland]] from Central High School in Washington, D. C.
* [[Wallace Rayfield]] from Pratt Polytechnic Institute, received certificate.
 
===Marriages===
* [[December 21]]: Educator [[A. H. Parker]] to [[Anna Parker|Anna B. Gilbert]].
* Industrialist [[Henry F. DeBardeleben]] to [[Katherine DeBardeleben|Katherine McCrossin]].
* Superintendent [[John Phillips]] to [[Minnie Phillips|Minnie Holman]].


===Awards===
===Awards===
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===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[October 25]]: [[Charles Whelan]], physician
* [[October 25]]: [[Charles Whelan]], physician
* [[Nellie Phillips]], first wife of [[John Phillips]]


== Works ==
== Works ==
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* [[Councill Elementary School|Davis School]]
* [[Councill Elementary School|Davis School]]
* [[Angwin Service Funeral Company|Echols and Angwin Funeral Home]] (original location)
* [[Angwin Service Funeral Company|Echols and Angwin Funeral Home]] (original location)
* [[Elliott House]]
* [[Gay Bridge]]
* [[Gay Bridge]]
* [[William Hassinger residence]]
* [[William Hassinger residence]]

Revision as of 09:34, 17 August 2012

Rex Vulcan III & Queen, 1898 Mardi Gras, courtesy BPL Archives

1898 was the 27th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

Business

Education

Government

Religion

Sports

Individuals

Births

Graduations

Marriages

Awards

Deaths

Works

Buildings

Context

In 1898, the Spanish-American War was fought over four months. Pepsi was invented. Marie and Pierre Curie announced the discovery of radium.

Notable books published in 1898 included The Open Boat and Other Tales by Stephen Crane, Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. Notable music released included "Ciribiribin" by Carlo Tiochet & Alberto Pestalozza and "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" by James Thornton.

Notable births in 1898 included race car driver and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, minister and author Norman Vincent Peale, artist M. C. Escher, author Stephen Vincent Benét, physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, screenwriter Preston Sturges, composer George Gershwin, chemist Karl Ziegler, author C. S. Lewis, and jazz drummer Baby Dodds. Notable deaths included author Lewis Carroll, engineer Sir Henry Bessemer (namesake of Bessemer), illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, German statesman Otto von Bismarck, and civil engineer Sir John Fowler.

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