* Great Blizzard of 1888, Northeastern U. S.

Thus in four close U. S. elections ( 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 ), the candidate with the most popular votes still lost the election.

* 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.

The 1888 election for President of the United States saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U. S. Senator from Indiana.

The U. S. Congress first established a Bureau of Labor in 1888 under the Department of the Interior.

The Scott Act ( 1888 ) expanded upon the Chinese Exclusion Act, prohibiting reentry after leaving the U. S. The Act was renewed for ten years by the 1892 Geary Act, and again with no terminal date in 1902.

* LaFayette L. Patterson ( 1888 – 1987 ), born near Delta, served three terms in the U. S. Congress from 1928 to 1933

John Foster Dulles ( February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959 ) served as U. S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.

Prior to the 1888 Republican National Convention, federal judge Walter Q. Gresham sought Fairbanks's help in seeking the nomination for U. S. President.

* William Alexander Smith ( politician ) ( 1828 – 1888 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1873 – 1874 )

Pitman shorthand is still in widespread use, but in the U. S. and some other parts of the world it has been largely superseded by Gregg shorthand, which was first published in 1888 by John Robert Gregg.

Although Pitman's method was extremely popular at first and is still commonly used, especially in the UK, its popularity has been superseded especially in the U. S. by the method developed by J. R. Gregg in 1888.

The U. S. Post Office Department established the Piru Post Office on June 14, 1888.

In phase two ( 1878 to 1888 ), with work completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, commanded by Lt. Col. Thomas L. Casey, white marble for the exterior was used from a different Cockeysville quarry.

* Philip Sheridan ( 1831 – 1888 ), career U. S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War

The community was the fictional 1888 setting for the 1967-68 United States television series Cimarron Strip starring actor Stuart Whitman as a U. S. marshall.

* William Hood Simpson ( May 18, 1888 – August 15, 1980 ), a lieutenant general commanded the U. S. Ninth Army in northern Europe, during World War II.

* Joseph Egbert ( 1807 – 1888 ), U. S. Representative from New York

The tour made stops in Birmingham and Manchester before returning to the U. S. in May 1888 for a short summer tour.

Built by his father in 1888, this house in Cuthbert, Georgia | Cuthbert, Georgia ( U. S. State ) | Georgia is where Fletcher Henderson was born in 1897.

* Henry A. Wallace ( 1888 – 1965 ), U. S. Vice President 1941-1945, presidential candidate for the Progressive Party 1948

Between 1888 and 1892, the Bethlehem Iron Company completed the first U. S. heavy-forging plant.

Geoffrey Keyes ( October 30, 1888 – September 17, 1967 ) was a U. S. Army Lieutenant General who commanded the II Corps during World War II.

In 1883 Sheridan was appointed general-in-chief of the U. S. Army, and in 1888 he was promoted to the rank of General of the Army during the term of President Grover Cleveland.

He was promoted on June 1, 1888, shortly before his death, to the rank of general in the regular army ( the rank was titled " General of the Army of the United States ", by Act of Congress June 1, 1888, the same rank achieved earlier by Grant and Sherman, which is equivalent to a four-star general, O-10, in the modern U. S. Army ).

The first result of Heidenstam's long sojourn abroad was a volume of poems, Pilgrimage And Wander-Years ( Vallfart och Vandringsar ), published in 1888.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

After all, she had come to Spelman Seminary in 1888, and had been since 1891 except for one year, Associate Principal or Dean.

* Albert G. Ingalls ( 1888 – 1958 ), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols.

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

In 1888 Alfred's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published Alfred's obituary.

One of the enduringly influential early resolutions of the conference was the so-called Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1888.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer ( d. 1952 )

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

** Lacour-Gayet, A. le Pieux et son Temps ( 1888 )

* 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier ( d. 1888 )