1874 in the United States

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Events from the year 1874 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois)
  • Vice President: Henry Wilson (R-Massachusetts)
  • Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (Ohio) (starting March 4)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: James G. Blaine (R-Maine)
  • Congress: 43rd

Events[]

  • January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
  • February 21 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
  • March 18 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
  • March – The Young Men's Hebrew Association in Manhattan (which still operates today as the 92nd Street Y) is founded.
  • May 20 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. The price is $13.50 per dozen.
  • July 1
    • Philadelphia Zoo opens, the first public zoo in the U.S.
    • Four-year-old Charley Ross, America's first major kidnapping for ransom victim, is taken from his home in Philadelphia.
    • The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, with cylindrical platen and QWERTY keyboard, is first marketed.
  • November 4 – Democrats regain the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.
  • November 7 – Harper's Weekly publishes a political cartoon by Thomas Nast considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.[1]
  • November 9 – The Sigma Kappa sorority is founded at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, by Mary Caffrey Low, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Frances Mann, and Louise Helen Coburn.
  • November 11 – The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority.
  • November 24 – Inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire.
  • November 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a "National Independent" political party, composed primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.
  • November 28 – King Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States begins when the ship carrying him from Hawaii, USS Benicia, docks in San Francisco.

Undated[]

  • The San Diego Natural History Museum is founded.[2]
  • Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is completed.

Ongoing[]

Births[]

  • January 4 – John W. Thomas, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1928 to 1933 and from 1940 to 1945 (died 1945)
  • January 7 – M. M. Logan, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1931 to 1939 (died 1939)
  • January 9 – Helen Tufts Bailie, social reformer and activist (died 1962)
  • January 29 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., financier and philanthropist, son of John D. Rockefeller (died 1960)
  • February 2 – William T. Innes, writer, ichthyologist, publisher (died 1969)
  • March 4 – Stephen Victor Graham, United States Navy Rear Admiral and 18th Governor of American Samoa (died 1955)
  • March 8 – Charles Weeghman, restaurateur and owner of Chicago Cubs (died 1938)
  • April 5 – Jesse H. Jones, entrepreneur, 9th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1956)
  • April 16 – Frederick Van Nuys, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1933 to 1944 (died 1944)
  • March 5 – Daniel O. Hastings, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1928 to 1937 (died 1966)
  • March 26 – Robert Frost, poet (died 1963)
  • March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States as wife of Herbert Hoover (died 1944)
  • May 20 – Augustine Lonergan, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1933 to 1939 (died 1947)
  • July 1 – Edward P. Costigan, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1931 to 1937 (died 1939)
  • July 3 – Margaret G. Hays, comics writer and artist (died 1925)
  • August 10
    • Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (died 1964)
    • Tod Sloan, jockey (died 1933)
  • September 13 – Henry F. Ashurst, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1941 (died 1962)
  • December 4 – Edwin S. Broussard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1921 to 1933 (died 1934)

Deaths[]

  • January 7 – John Burton Thompson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1853 to 1859 (born 1810)
  • January 17 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai-American conjoined twin brothers (born 1811)
  • February 24 – John Bachman, Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist (born 1790)
  • March 8 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the U.S. from 1850 to 1853, and 12th Vice President of the U.S. from 1849 to 1850 (born 1800)
  • March 11 – Charles Sumner, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1874 (born 1811)
  • June 8 – Cochise, one of the greatest leaders of the Apache Indians, dies on the Chiricahua reservation in southeastern Arizona
  • October 6 – Samuel M. Kier, industrialist (born 1813)
  • November 20 – Jackson Morton, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1849 to 1855 (born 1794)
  • Full date unknown
    • Paul Jennings, slave of James Madison, writer (born 1799)
    • Eliza Seymour Lee, pastry chef and restaurateur (born 1800)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "On This Day: November 7, 1874". The New York Times. 2001. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  2. ^ Hile, Kevin (19 September 2016). The Handy California Answer Book. Visible Ink Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-57859-622-5.

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