1894 in the United States

1894 in the United States
Years:	1891 1892 1893 – 1894 – 1895 1896 1897
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Events from the year 1894 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal Government

• President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson I (D-Illinois)
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Illinois)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Charles Frederick Crisp (D-Georgia)
• Congress: 53rd

Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors 2 Lieutenant Governors 2

Events

Hershey chocolate is first sold. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.

• March 12 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
• March 25 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs from Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
• May 1
  • Coxey's Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • The May Day Riots of 1894 break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
• May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
• July – A fire at the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago destroys most of the remaining buildings.
• July 4 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• September 1 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.
• September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
• November 5 – West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.

Undated

• In the U.S., the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects is founded.
• In the U.S., the National Society of Pershing Rifles is founded at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Chatham Episcopal Institute (now known as Chatham Hall ) is founded in Chatham, Virginia, USA.
• Frederick W. Tamblyn founded Tamblyn Studio & School of Penmanship which later became Ziller of Kansas City the oldest Calligraphy Studio in United States.
• National Civic League established.

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Gay Nineties (1890–1899)
• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Panic of 1893 (1893–1894)

Births

• February 25 – Frank P. Briggs, United States Senator from Missouri from 1945 till 1947. (died 1992)
• March 14 – Osa Johnson (née Leighty), adventurer and filmmaker, wife of Martin Johnson (died 1953)
• March 31 – Francis T. Maloney, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1935 till 1945. (died 1945)
• June 5 – James Glenn Beall, United States Senator from Maryland from 1953 till 1965. (died 1971)
• August 29 – Henry Dworshak, United States Senator from Idaho from 1946 till 1949 and from 1949 till 1962. (died 1962)
• October 4 – Patrick V. McNamara, United States Senator from Michigan from 1955 till 1966. (died 1966)
• October 9 – Ernest McFarland, United States Senator from Arizona from 1941 till 1953. (died 1984)
• November 23 – Andrew Frank Schoeppel, United States Senator from Kansas from 1949 till 1962. (died 1962)
• December 29 – J. Lister Hill, United States Senator from Alabama from 1938 till 1969. (died 1984)

Deaths

• January 15 – Henry Mower Rice, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1858 till 1863. (born 1816)
• February 4 – Morton S. Wilkinson, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1859 till 1865. (born 1819)
• February 28 – James W. McDill, United States Senator from Iowa from 1881 till 1883. (born 1834)
• March 26 – Alfred H. Colquitt, United States Senator from Georgia from 1883 till 1894. (born 1824)
• March 28 – George Ticknor Curtis, author, lawyer and historian (born 1812)
• April 15 – James Harvey, United States Senator from Kansas from 1874 till 1877. (born 1833)
• April 30 – Francis B. Stockbridge, United States Senator from Michigan from 1887 till 1894. (born 1826)
• June 20 – Bishop W. Perkins, United States Senator from Kansas from 1892 till 1893. (born 1841)
• September 1
  • Boston Corbett, England-born Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth (born 1832)
  • Samuel J. Kirkwood, United States Senator from Iowa from 1881 till 1882. (born 1813)
• November 30 – Joseph E. Brown, United States Senator from Georgia from 1880 till 1891. (born 1821)
• December 19 – James L. Alcorn, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1871 till 1877. (born 1816)

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