After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1887 – John van Melle, South African writer ( d. 1953 )

Lilith, oil on canvas by carved by John Collier ( artist ) | John Collier ( 1887 ).

The first real geographical intellect to emerge in United Kingdom geography was Halford John Mackinder, appointed reader at Oxford University in 1887.

John van Melle ( 11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953 ) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author.

* John Robert Brown ( Virginia politician ) ( 1842 – 1927 ), U. S. representative ( R-VA, 1887 – 1889 )

* John Lothrop Brown ( 1815 – 1887 ), farmer, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

* John Brown ( bridge ) ( 1887 –?

* 1808 – John Taylor, American religious figure ( d. 1887 )

* 1953 – John van Melle, South African author ( b. 1887 )

* 1887 – 1910 John Peile

** John Reed, American journalist ( b. 1887 )

** John Cromwell, American film director and actor ( b. 1887 )

* November 1 – John Taylor, American religious leader ( d. 1887 )

* July 9 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter ( d. 1887 )

Tubman ( far left ), with Davis ( seated, with cane ), their adopted daughter Gertie ( beside Tubman ), Lee Cheney, John " Pop " Alexander, Walter Green, Blind " Aunty " Sarah Parker, and great-niece, Dora Stewart at Tubman's home in Auburn, New York circa 1887

They had three children together: John Philip, Jr. ( April 1, 1881 – May 18, 1937 ), Jane Priscilla ( August 7, 1882 – October 28, 1958 ), and Helen ( January 21, 1887 – October 14, 1975 ).

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

In June 1887 the St John Ambulance Brigade was established to provide first aid and ambulance services at public events in London.

* David John Gunn ( 1887 – 1955 ), New Zealand farmer and bushman

In 1887 Townsend was succeeded by John St Loe Strachey, a young aristocrat who had replaced H. H.

The first practical pneumatic tire was made by John Boyd Dunlop while working as a veterinarian in May Street, Belfast, Ireland in 1887 for his son's bicycle, in an effort to prevent the headaches his son had while riding on rough roads ( Dunlop's patent was later declared invalid because of prior art by fellow Scot Robert William Thomson ).

John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies.

In 1887 Edward Weston discovered that metals can have a negative temperature

It was first developed by Edward Weston in 1892, improving upon his Constantan ( 1887 ).

In 1887 Edward Weston discovered that metals can have a negative temperature

File: In Summer 1887 Frank Weston Benson. jpg | In Summer, 1887, Private collection.

* 1887 – Bruno Frank, German author ( d. 1945 )

* 1887 – Frank Christian, American trumpet player ( d. 1973 )

* November 27 – Frank Christian, American musician ( b. 1887 )

During the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland several prominent figures involved in it were in Lewes Prison, including Éamon de Valera ( 1882 – 1975 ); Thomas Ashe ( 1885 – 1917 ); Frank Lawless ( 1871 – 1922 ); and Harry Boland ( 1887 – 1922 ).

In 1887, the Metropolitan Railway was extended from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Rickmansworth, and Carnegie sold his land to Frank Murray Maxwell Hallowell Carew for development for £ 59, 422.

Frank Joseph Christian ( September 3, 1887 – November 27, 1973 ) was an early jazz trumpeter.

With the aide of Major Frank P. Crandon, tax commissioner with the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, he successfully lobbied the Wisconsin Legislature for the creation of Forest County, which was established in 1887.

* Frank C. Whitmore ( 1887 – 1947 ), American chemist

Her siblings included Dora Furry ( born 1880 ); Sherman Furry ( born 1882 ); Cameron Furry ( born 1887 ); Edgar Furry ( 1889 – 1975 ); Frank M. Furry ( born 1891 ); and Margaret Furry ( born 1897 ).

Frank H. Chapman ( November 1861-December 2, 1937 ) was a professional baseball player who appeared in one game for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association in 1887.

He opened a shoe repair store in his hometown and played baseball on weekends, earning a professional contract in 1886 with an Oshkosh, Wisconsin, team which was managed by Frank Selee in 1887.

Although built in traditional fashion of stone without steel frame, Richardson's well-integrated Marshall Field's Wholesale Store | Marshall Field Wholesale Store was very influential in the development of modern approaches to building facades. The noted Marshall Field Wholesale Store ( Chicago, 1885 – 1887, demolished 1930 ) is Richardson's " culminating statement of urban commercial form ", and its remarkable design influenced Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many other architects.

The 1887 player was actually named Frank Chapman, and he was 25 years old at the time of his only major league appearance.

In part due to Anson's influence and of those of other white players, on July 14, 1887, the directors of the International League voted to prohibit the signing of additional black players – although blacks under contract, like Frank Grant of the Buffalo Bisons and Fleet Walker of the Syracuse franchise, could remain with their teams.

The Edge-Sweets Company was founded in 1887 as the Frank Edge Company, to produce saw blades for the furniture industry.

* Frank Nelson ( 1887 – 1970 ), Olympic athlete ( DUS )

* Frank Parkinson ( 1887 – 1946 ), British industrialist

* Frank Hodges ( trade unionist ) ( 1887 – 1947 ), English trade union leader

The introduction of the electrical streetcar in Richmond, Virginia in 1887 by Frank J. Sprague marked the start of a new era of transportation-influenced suburbanization through the birth of the " streetcar suburb ".

Frank Alexander de Pass VC ( 26 April 1887 – November 1914 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

The Elisha Taylor House ( 1870 ) and the Hudson-Evans House ( 1872 ) are both in Brush Park ; the Col. Frank J. Hecker House ( 1888 ) and the Charles Lang Freer House ( 1887 ) are in the East Ferry Avenue neighbhorhood.

Additional buildings they designed include: Theodore Roosevelt's country house Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay Long Island ( completed 1887 ), Mount Morris Bank in Harlem ( 1883 ), the Victorian Renaissance revival style Main Building at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn ( 1887 ), the Queen Anne style Astral Apartments ( commissioned by Charles Pratt-built 1885 / 86 ) at 184 Franklin St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn ( national register # 82001178 ), the Frank Babbott house at 153 Lincoln Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the main building of Barnard College in Manhattan, the John M. Greene Hall at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and " Copshaholm ," James Oliver's house in South Bend, Indiana.

* Frank J. Wilson ( 1887 – 1970 ), IRS agent who helped convict Al Capone