1888 in the United States

1888 in the United States
Decades:	1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s
Years:	1885 1886 1887 – 1888 – 1889 1890 1891
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Events from the year 1888 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Grover Cleveland (Democratic)
• Vice President: vacant
• Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (until March 23), Melville Fuller (starting October 8)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
• Congress: 50th

Events

• January 12 – Blizzards (see: Schoolhouse Blizzard) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.
• January 13 – In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded.
• February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.
• March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah, (later Utah State University) is founded in Logan, Utah.
• March 11 – The "Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• May 1 – The United States Congress establishes the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
• June 19 – In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison & Levi Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President, respectively.
• July 25 – Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at the time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used now.
• October 9 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1888: United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
• November 27 – Delta Delta Delta was founded at Boston University.

Undated

• Susan B. Anthony organizes a Congress for Women's Rights in Washington, DC.
• The Baldwin School is founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
• U.S. President Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)

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External links

• Media related to 1888 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons