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Events from the year 1894 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of California : John B. Reddick (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : David Hopkinson Nichols (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Ernest Cady (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : F. B. Willis (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Joseph B. Gill (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Mortimer Nye (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Samuel L. Bestow (Democratic ) (until January 11), Warren S. Dungan (Republican ) (starting January 11)Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Percy Daniels (Populist)Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Mitchell Cary Alford (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Hiram R. Lott (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Roger Wolcott (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : John Strong (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), J. Wight Giddings (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Gideon S. Ives (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), David M. Clough (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : M. M. Evans (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Stephen H. Claycomb (Democratic ) (until January 9), John B. O'Meara (Democratic ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Montana : John E. Rickards (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Alexander Campbell Botkin (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Thomas J. Majors (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Joseph Poujade (political party unknown)Lieutenant Governor of New York : William F. Sheehan (Democratic ) (until end of December 31)Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : vacant (until month and day unknown), Rufus A. Doughton (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Elmer D. Wallace (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Andrew L. Harris (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Louis Arthur Watres (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Melville Bull (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Edwin Allen (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Washington H. Timmerman (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Charles N. Herreid (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : William C. Dismukes (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Texas : Martin McNulty Crane (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : F. Stewart Stranahan (Republican ) (until October 4), Zophar M. Mansur (Republican ) (starting October 4)Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : James Hoge Tyler (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Robert Craig Kent (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of Washington : F. H. Luce (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Charles Jonas (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), vacant (starting month and day unknown)
Events January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery -operated telephone switchboard , in Lexington, Massachusetts .
February 7 – 5-month Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 begins
February 9 – Milton S. Hershey establishes the Hershey Chocolate Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania .
February 17 – Outlaw John Wesley Hardin is released from prison.
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.
April 21 – A bituminous coal miners' strike closes mines across the central US.
May 1
May 11 – Pullman Strike : Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike to protest lowered wages without an equivalent reduction in expenses charged in the company town of Pullman, Chicago .
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.
October 3 – Pomfret School is founded in Connecticut.
November 1 – The first issue of Billboard magazineWilliam Donaldson and James Hennegan. Initially, it covers the advertising and bill posting industry, and is at the time known as Billboard Advertising .
November 5 – West Palm Beach, Florida is incorporated as a city.
November 6 – Republican win by a landslide in the House of Representatives elections , which sets the stage for the decisive 1896 presidential election .
December 6 – Kate Chopin 's feminist short story "The Story of an Hour " is first published, in the magazine Vogue Undated Ongoing Births January 2 – Robert Nathan , poet and novelist (died 1985 )
January 20 – Walter Piston , composer (died 1976 )
January 31
February 1
February 3 – Norman Rockwell , painter and illustrator (died 1978 )
February 14 – Jack Benny , actor and comedian (died 1974 )
February 18 – Paul Williams , architect (died 1980 )
February 22 – Enid Markey , actress (died 1981 )
February 25 – Frank P. Briggs , U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1945 to 1947 (died 1992 )
February 28 – Ben Hecht , playwright and film writer (died 1964 )
March 14 – Osa Johnson (née Leighty), adventurer and filmmaker, wife of Martin Johnson (died 1953 )
March 17 – Paul Green , playwright (died 1981)
March 19 – Moms Mabley , African American comedian (died 1975 )
March 31 – Francis T. Maloney , U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945 (died 1945 )
April 3 – Dooley Wilson , African American pianist and singer (died 1953)
April 15 – Bessie Smith , African American blues singer (died 1937 )
April 19 – Elizabeth Dilling , right-wing political activist (died 1966 )
May 2 – Norma Talmadge , silent film actress (died 1957 )
May 5 – August Dvorak , educational psychologist (died 1975)
May 11 – Martha Graham , dancer and choreographer (died 1991 )
May 15 – Eddie Stumpf , baseball player (died 1978 )
May 16 – Walter Yust , encyclopædia editor (died 1960 )
May 27 – Dashiell Hammett , detective fiction writer (died 1961 )
May 31 – Fred Allen , comedian (died 1956)
June 5 – James Glenn Beall , U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1953 to 1965 (died 1971)
June 23 – Alfred Kinsey , biologist, professor of entomology and zoology and sexologist, founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1947 (died 1956 )
June 28 – Arthur Dewey Struble , admiral (died 1983 )
July 9 – Phelps Putnam , poet (died 1948 )
August 3 – Harry Heilmann , baseball player (died 1951 )
August 16 – George Meany , labor leader (died 1980)
August 29 – Henry Dworshak , U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1946 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1962 (died 1962 )
September 6 – Howard Pease , adventure novelist (died 1974)
September 7 – George Waggner , film director, producer and actor (died 1984 )
September 12 – Billy Gilbert , comedian and actor (died 1971)
September 24 – Harry B. Liversedge , general (died 1951)
September 25 – J. Mayo Williams , African American blues music producer (died 1980])
September 26 – Vaughn De Leath , crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (died 1943 )
October 2 – Thomas L. Sprague , admiral (died 1972 )
October 4 – Patrick V. McNamara , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1955 to 1966 (died 1966 )
October 7 – Del Lord , film director (died 1970 )
October 9 – Ernest McFarland , U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1941 to 1953 (died 1984)
October 14 – E. E. Cummings , poet and painter (died 1962 )
October 18 – H. L. Davis , fiction writer (died 1960)
November 23 – Andrew Frank Schoeppel , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1949 to 1962 (died 1962)
November 26 – Norbert Wiener , mathematician (died 1964)
November 28 – Henry Hazlitt , journalist and economist (died 1993)
December 5 – Philip K. Wrigley , business and sports executive (died 1977 )
December 8
December 15 – Felix Stump , admiral (died 1972)
December 17 – Arthur Fiedler , orchestral conductor (died 1979 )
December 26 – Jean Toomer (Nathan Eugene Pinchback Toomer), African American poet and novelist (died 1967 )
December 29 – J. Lister Hill , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1938 to 1969 (died 1984) Deaths January 15 – Henry Mower Rice , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1858 to 1863 (born 1816 )
February 4 – Morton S. Wilkinson , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1859 to 1865 (born 1819 )
February 28 – James W. McDill , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1881 to 1883 (born 1834 )
March 2
March 3 – Ned Williamson , baseball player (born 1857 )
March 26 – Alfred H. Colquitt , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1883 to 1894 (born 1824 )
March 28 – George Ticknor Curtis , author, lawyer and historian (born 1812 )
April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. , poet and humorist (born 1857 )
April 14 – Zebulon Baird Vance , Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator (born 1830 )
April 15 – James Harvey , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1874 to 1877 (born 1833 )
April 30 – Francis B. Stockbridge , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1887 to 1894 (born 1826 )
June 17 – William Hart , landscape painter (born 1823 in Scotland )
June 20 – Bishop W. Perkins , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1892 to 1893 (born 1841 )
June 24 – George Peter Alexander Healy , American portrait painter (born 1813 )
July 19 – William B. Avery , Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (born 1840 )
August 15 – Arthur Rotch , architect (born 1850 )
October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , physician and writer (born 1809 )
October 18 – William F. Raynolds , military engineer (born 1820 )
September 1
November 30 – Joseph E. Brown , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880 to 1891 (born 1821 )
December 19 – James L. Alcorn , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1871 to 1877 (born 1816) See also References External links
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