The Union Association survived for only one season ( 1884 ), as did the Players League ( 1890 ), an attempt to return to the National Association structure of a league controlled by the players themselves.

In 1884 Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson, who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company and improved the cash register by adding a paper roll to record sales transactions, thereby creating the receipt.

Already a leading player in state politics, he attended the Republican National Convention in 1884 and fought alongside the Mugwump reformers ; they lost to the Stalwart faction that nominated James G. Blaine.

" Crossing the Rubicon: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the 1884 Republican National Convention.

Between 1884 and 1886, William attended the Metropolitan School of Art — now the National College of Art and Design — in Thomas Street.

US President Chester A. Arthur appointed him as one of the commissioners to the National Conference of Electricians, which convened in Philadelphia in September of 1884, and Gibbs presided over one of its sessions.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and delegate to the 1880 and 1884 Democratic National Conventions.

Allan Pinkerton ( 25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884 ) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Pinkerton National Detective Agency | Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884.

The next year Khleber M. Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became Fort Worth National Bank in 1884.

The law offended machine politicians within the Republican Party and did not prove to be enough for the party's reformers ; hence, Arthur lost popularity within the Republican Party and was unable to win the party's Presidential nomination at the 1884 Republican National Convention.

The Bathers at Asnières, 1884, in the National Gallery, London

Image: Seurat_bathers. png | Bathers at Asnières, 1884, National Gallery, London

In 1884 the National Temperance Federation, associated with the Liberal Party was founded.

In 1884 the company and patents were bought by John Henry Patterson and his brother Frank Jefferson Patterson and the firm was renamed the National Cash Register Company.

* Edwin Cowles, ( 1825 – 1890 ), born in Austinburg, publisher of The Cleveland Leader, Vice-President of the 1884 Republican National Convention

The Shorter Mansion was built in 1884 by Eli Shorter and is recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The museum buildings, formerly the Pflueger General Merchandise Store ( built in 1881 ) and the attached Annex Saloon ( built in 1884 ), are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1884, four men robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and allegedly left with over $ 10, 000 in gold coins.

Pinkerton National Detective Agency | Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884

In 1884, Hanna sought election as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in support of the presidential bid of Senator Sherman ( as he was by then )— President Chester A. Arthur, Garfield's successor, was seeking re-nomination, but was opposed by a number of other Republicans Hanna supported Sherman as the candidate favored the gold standard and worked to solve the problems of business, and because he was from Ohio.

Cox Terrace on Rubidge Street, built in 1884 and declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1991

* Philip Harling, ‘ Hayward, Abraham ( 1801 – 1884 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 6 Feb 2007

The party was so thoroughly German that it published the stenographic proceedings of its 1884 and 1885 National Conventions only in that language.

* Hack Schumann ( 1884 – 1946 ), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Morris established the Socialist League in December 1884, which was encouraged by Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.

He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with that organization over goals and methods by the end of the decade.

Disagreements with Hyndman over Irish Home Rule and a generalized mistrust of Hyndman's personal motives led to the foundation of the breakaway Socialist League in December 1884, encouraged by Friedrich Engels and Eleanor Marx.

These include the Union Association ( 1884 ), the American Association ( 1882 – 1891, not to be confused with later minor leagues of the same name ), the Players ' League ( 1890 ) and the Federal League ( 1914 – 1915 ).

The Union Association survived for only one season ( 1884 ), as did the Players League ( 1890 ).

Edward Victor Cicotte (; June 19, 1884 – May 5, 1969 ), nicknamed " Knuckles ", was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball best known for his time with the Chicago White Sox.

Johnson is also the AL leader in wins ( 36 ), but Charles Radbourn's NL total is over 20 wins higher ; his 59 wins in 1884 are a Major League Baseball single-season record.

The original Millers date back to 1884 when the Northwestern League was formed.

In the early years of Major League Baseball before 1900 it was common for an exceptional pitcher to win 30 or more games in one season with Old Hoss Radbourn of the defunct Providence Grays holding the record with an astounding 59 wins in 1884.

The artist William Morris was a leader of the Socialist League founded in December 1884.

On September 15, 1884 it was the setting for the meeting of the Three Emperors ' League.

In 1884, he left the SDF with William Morris to join the Socialist League.

In 1884, Radbourn became the second National League ( NL ) pitcher to win a Triple Crown ; in the process, he broke the single-season wins record which still stands today.

When a large section of the party's active membership, including Hyndman and William Morris, departed the SDF in 1884 to form the Socialist League, Quelch stayed behind, redoubling his efforts on behalf of the organization.

Start's 1879 Providence team won the National League, and in 1884 they won a championship, beating the New York Metropolitans.

In 1884, Marx also met Clementina Black, a painter and trade unionist, and became involved in the Women's Trade Union League.

In 1884 protest action was much more widespread, many thousands of crofters became members of the Highland Land League and among MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885 there were Crofters ' Party MPs elected by the constituencies of Argyllshire ( Donald Horne Macfarlane ), Inverness-shire ( Charles Fraser-Mackintosh ), Ross and Cromarty ( Roderick Macdonald ) and Caithness ( Gavin Brown Clark ).

* Jack Ryan ( pitcher ) ( 1884 – 1949 ), Major League Baseball pitcher

Early soccer leagues in the U. S. mostly used the name " football ," for example: the American Football Association ( founded in 1884 ), the American Amateur Football Association ( 1893 ), the American League of Professional Football ( 1894 ), the National Association Foot Ball League ( 1895 ), and the Southern New England Football League ( 1914 ).