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In 1888 a town board was elected and within a short time they hired a marshal to keep the peace and light the street lamps.
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An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).
In April 1888, a great fire destroyed almost the entire business section of the town.
In 1888, Putnam's remains were removed from the Brooklyn cemetery and reinterred in a sarcophagus built into the foundation of a monument in his memory, newly erected on a plot of ground near the Brooklyn town green.
Thorpe was generally considered born on May 28, 1888, near the town of Prague, Oklahoma.
The authority of Egypt having lapsed over Zula, an Italian protectorate was proclaimed in 1888, and in 1890 the town was incorporated into the colony of Eritrea.
The original town club, Accrington, was amongst the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, before resigning from the league after just five years.
On New Year's Day of 1888, Flora Call and Elias Disney were married in the Lake County town of Kismet, and they lived for a short time in the adjoining town of Acron, Florida.
The men had the town incorporated as Eddy on September 15, 1888.
On May 28, 1888, the " Junction " part of the name was dropped, and the town of Wynne was formed.
The town was incorporated on Feb 4, 1888.
The town site traces its roots to the construction of a railroad lines through the San Joaquin Valley, by 1888 a line passed through the area.
The town suffered through many difficult challenges, but despite burning down and being rebuilt three times in its first fourteen years of existence, it was eventually incorporated in 1888.
Maj. Dudley Wheeler ( 1796 – 1888 ) was the most prominent member of the family at this time ; in addition to owning two stores in town, he also was extensively involved in the wool export business and during mid-century worked out of an import-export office in New York City.
In 1888 the local post office changed its name from Orion to High Springs and the town was officially incorporated in 1892.
The town was incorporated in 1884 and grew steadily following the arrival of the railroad in 1888.
The town of Interlachen was incorporated in 1888.
As of 1888, the town of Sidell had three main industries ( aside from farming ): tile, brick, and ice.
The subsequent discovery of natural gas on West 3rd Street in 1888 boosted the town ’ s growth even further as several additional industries chose to locate there.
The oldest surviving school structure was about 1850, while a stone structure on the east side of town was built in 1888.
By the time of West Lafayette's formation in 1888, the growth of the university was fueling the growth of the little town.
In the 16th century, a town was recognised as a city by the English Crown if it had a diocesan cathedral within its limits, but this link was abolished in 1888.
The town of Archer was founded in 1888 by John Archer, who owned the land on which the town was plotted according to obriencounty. com
1888 and board
Plimpton sits on the board of directors of The Players, a New York City social club founded in 1888 by actor Edwin Booth.
In March 1888, the school board made a decision to construct an addition onto the schoolhouse.
This factory began in 1888, as the Kelly & Jones Company ( John T. Kelly and George M. Jones ), and Huff was a member of their board of directors.
In 1888, the residents of Cullowhee desired a better school for the community than was offered in public schools of that day, organized a board of trustees
When he died on April 2, 1888, Clemson left a cash endowment of $ 80, 000 and the 814 acre Calhoun estate called Fort Hill to a board of lifetime trustees for the establishment of the proposed agricultural college.
In 1888 the board was divided into four wards: Adswood, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme and Gatley.
In 1888 he became president of the central board in Berlin.
In 1888, he moved to Tooele, Utah, where he served on the school board and on the irrigation board as well as directing the Tooele City Water Company.
His scientific and academic victories were rewarded, in 1887, with the title of director of the School, and chair of infectious diseases, and, in 1888, with an invitation to become a member to the first editorial board of the Annals of the Pasteur Institute.
Kleven joined the local council board where he served from 1888 to 1905.
Since 1888 the London directors of McIlwraith's Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co. had complained about the practices of the local board, and in 1892 they charged McIlwraith, Palmer and two others with fraud.
At the first meeting of the board of directors in April, 1888, E. H. Ripley was elected President, E. W. Harrison was appointed Chief Engineer, and a construction contract to build the railroad was awarded.
In 1888 Barking parish was reduced in size, to match the area of the local board, as the Ilford and Chadwell wards formed a new parish of Ilford.
The ancient parish had included Wood Green and in 1888 the district was divided, with Wood Green gaining its own local board.
Pressure from residents of the area led to the passing of the Tottenham Local Board ( Division of District ) Act 1888, constituting a separate local board for the area.
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The first result of Heidenstam's long sojourn abroad was a volume of poems, Pilgrimage And Wander-Years ( Vallfart och Vandringsar ), published in 1888.
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.
One of the enduringly influential early resolutions of the conference was the so-called Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1888.
Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.
As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.
The Concord School of Philosophy, which closed following Alcott's death in 1888, was reopened almost 90 years later in the 1970s.
He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.
From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.
An école normale ( an institute for training primary school teachers ) was founded in Barcelonnette in 1833, and remained there until 1888 when it was transferred to Digne.
An identical expression to Einstein's formula for the diffusion coefficient was also found by Walther Nernst in 1888 in which he expressed the diffusion coefficient as the ratio of the osmotic pressure to the ratio of the frictional force and the velocity to which it gives rise.
The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.
In 1888, when he was seven, his father ( the director of an agricultural school ) died suddenly.
Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.
In 1888, all production was moved, by Edward Drummond Libbey, to Toledo, Ohio, where it continues today under the name Owens Illinois.
First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.
The text is filled with references to baseball as it was in 1888, which in many ways is not far removed from today's version.
The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.
Of particular note, was Ranelagh House, Fulham's palatial home from 1886 – 1888.
The Kingdom of Rarotonga was established in 1858 and in 1888 it became a British protectorate by the request of Queen Makea Takau, mainly to thwart French expansionism.
In the United Kingdom the original Board of Trade carat was exactly (≈ 3. 170 ) grains ; in 1888, the Board of Trade carat was changed to exactly (≈ 3. 168 ) grains.
From 1888, block printing was limited to short run specialist jobs.
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