1885 in the United States

1885 in the United States
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Events from the year 1885 in the United States.

Incumbents

March 4: First inauguration of Grover Cleveland

Federal Government

• President: Chester A. Arthur (R-New York) (until March 4), Grover Cleveland (D-New York) (starting March 4)
• Vice President:
  • until March 4: vacant
  • March 4–November 25: Thomas A. Hendricks (D-Indiana)
  • starting November 25: vacant
• Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Ohio)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
• Congress: 48th (until March 4), 49th (starting March 4)

Governors and Lieutenant Governors

Governors Governor of Alabama: Edward A. O'Neal (Democratic) Governor of Arkansas: James Henderson Berry (Democratic) (until January 17), Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. (Democratic) (starting January 17) Governor of California: George Stoneman (Republican) Governor of Colorado: James Benton Grant (Democratic) (until January 13), Benjamin Harrison Eaton (Republican) (starting January 13) Governor of Connecticut: Thomas M. Waller (Democratic) (until January 8), Henry B. Harrison (Republican) (starting January 8) Governor of Delaware: Charles C. Stockley (Democratic) Governor of Florida: William D. Bloxham (Democratic) (until January 7), Edward A. Perry (Democratic) (starting January 7) Governor of Georgia: Henry D. McDaniel (Democratic) Governor of Illinois: John Marshall Hamilton (Republican) (until January 30), Richard J. Oglesby (Republican) (starting January 30) Governor of Indiana: Albert G. Porter (Republican) (until January 12), Isaac P. Gray (Democratic) (starting January 12) Governor of Iowa: Buren R. Sherman (Republican) Governor of Kansas: George W. Glick (Democratic) (until January 12), John A. Martin (Republican) (starting January 12) Governor of Kentucky: J. Proctor Knott (Democratic) Governor of Louisiana: Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) Governor of Maine: Frederick Robie (Republican) Governor of Maryland: Robert Milligan McLane (Democratic) (until March 27), Henry Lloyd (Democratic) (starting March 27) Governor of Massachusetts: George D. Robinson (Republican) Governor of Michigan: Josiah Begole (Democratic) (until January 1), Russell Alger (Republican) (starting January 1) Governor of Minnesota: Lucius F. Hubbard (Republican) Governor of Mississippi: Robert Lowry (Democratic) Governor of Missouri: Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Democratic) (until January 12), John S. Marmaduke (Democratic) (starting January 12) Governor of Nebraska: James W. Dawes (Republican) Governor of Nevada: Jewett W. Adams (Democratic) Governor of New Hampshire: Samuel W. Hale (Republican) (until June 4), Moody Currier (Democratic) (starting June 4) Governor of New Jersey: Leon Abbett (Democratic) Governor of New York: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) (until January 6), David B. Hill (Democratic) (starting January 6) Governor of North Carolina: Thomas Jordan Jarvis (Democratic) (until January 21), Alfred Moore Scales (Democratic) (starting January 21) Governor of Ohio: George Hoadly (Democratic) Governor of Oregon: Z. F. Moody (Republican) Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert E. Pattison (Democratic) Governor of Rhode Island: Augustus O. Bourn (Republican) (until May 26), George P. Wetmore (Republican) (starting May 26) Governor of South Carolina: Hugh Smith Thompson (Democratic) Governor of Tennessee: William B. Bate (Democratic) Governor of Texas: John Ireland (Democratic) Governor of Vermont: Samuel E. Pingree (Republican) Governor of Virginia: William E. Cameron (Re-adjuster) Governor of West Virginia: Jacob B. Jackson (Democratic) (until March 4), Emanuel Willis Wilson (Democratic) (starting March 4) Governor of Wisconsin: Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican) Lieutenant Governors Lieutenant Governor of California: John Daggett (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: William H. Meyer (Republican) (until January 13), Peter W. Breene (Republican) (starting January 13) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: George G. Sumner (Democratic) (until January 8), Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) (starting January 8) Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Livingston W. Bethel (no political party) (until month and day unknown), Milton H. Mabry (no political party) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: William J. Campbell (Republican) (until January 30), John Smith (Republican) (starting January 30) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Thomas Hanna (Republican) (until January 12), Mahlon Dickerson Manson (Democratic) (starting January 12) Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Orlando H. Manning (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: David Wesley Finney (Republican) (until January 12), Alexander P. Riddle (Republican) (starting January 12) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James R. Hindman (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Clay Knobloch (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Oliver Ames (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Moreau S. Crosby (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Archibald Buttars (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles A. Gilman (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: G. D. Shands (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Robert Alexander Campbell (Democratic) (until January 12), Albert P. Morehouse (Democratic) (starting January 12) Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Alfred W. Agee (Republican) (until month and day unknown), Hibbard H. Shedd (Republican) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Charles H. Laughton (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of New York: until January 6: David B. Hill (Republican) January 6 to end of December 31: vacant Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: James L. Robinson (Democratic) (until January 21), Charles M. Stedman (Democratic) (starting January 21) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John George Warwick (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Oscar Rathbun (political party unknown) (until May 26), Lucius B. Darling (Republican) (starting May 26) Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: John Calhoun Sheppard (Democratic) Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Benjamin F. Alexander (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Cabell R. Berry (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Francis M. Martin (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Barnett Gibbs (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John F. Lewis (Republican) Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Sam S. Fifield (Republican)

Events

September 2: Rock Springs massacre

January–March

• February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
• February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index stood at a level of 62.76, and represented the dollar average of 14 stocks: 12 railroads and two leading American industries.^[1]
• February 21 – United States President Chester A. Arthur dedicates the Washington Monument.
• March 3 – A subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), is incorporated in New York.
• March 4 – Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as President of the United States.

April–June

• April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature forming the Niagara Falls State Park.
• May – The Depression of 1882–85 ends.
• June 17 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

July–September

• July 14 – Sarah E. Goode is the first female African-American to apply for and receive a patent, for the invention of the hideaway bed.
• August 25 – Laura Ingalls Wilder married Almanzo Wilder.
• September 2 – The Rock Springs massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• September 8 – Saint Thomas Academy is founded in Minnesota.

October–December

• October 13 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is established in Atlanta, Georgia as the Georgia School of Technology.
• November 25 – Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks dies in office.
• December 1 – The U.S. Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper is served for the very first time; the exact date of Dr Pepper's invention is unknown.

Undated

• The first skyscraper (the Home Insurance Building) is built in Chicago, Illinois, USA (10 floors).
• Michigan Technological University (originally Michigan Mining School) opens its doors for the first time in what is now the Houghton County Fire Hall.
• Camp Dudley, the oldest continually running boys' camp in America, is founded.

Ongoing

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Depression of 1882–85 (1882–1885)

Births

• February 17 – Steve Evans, baseball player (d. 1943)
• April 1 – Wallace Beery, actor (d. 1949)
• May 14 – Ben J. Tarbutton, businessman and politician (d. 1962)
• May 30 – Arthur E. Andersen, accountant (d. 1947)

Deaths

• January 24 – Martin Delany, African-American abolitionist, journalist, and physician (born 1812)
• February 12 – Alexandre Mouton, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1843 till 1846. (born 1804)
• July 23 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States from 1869 till 1877. (born 1822)
• September 3 – William M. Gwin, United States Senator from California from 1850 till 1855 and from 1857 till 1861. (born 1805)
• November 25 – Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States in 1885. (born 1819)
• December 15 – Robert Toombs, United States Senator from Georgia from 1853 till 1861. (born 1810)
• December 29 – James E. Bailey, United States Senator from Tennessee from 1877 till 1881. (born 1821)

References

1. Dow Record Book Adds Another First. Philly.com. Retrieved 2013-07-08.

External links

• Media related to 1885 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons