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.

He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

In June 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1891 was awarded their Royal Medal.

In recognition of the above, Olmsted was elected a Third Class member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ( MOLLUS ) on May 2, 1888.

He became an extraordinary professor only in 1888, when he was also elected a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

He was later elected city councilman in 1888.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician — first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician-in 1855 first black person in Ohio elected to public office, first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

Helen Timmons Henderson ( 1877 – 1925 ) helped participate in the work of the Buchanan Mission School at Council, Va. She and Sarah Lee Fain ( 1888 – 1962 ) of Norfolk became the first two women to be elected into the Virginia General Assembly.

In 1888, he was elected as commissioner of public works in New Orleans.

In 1888, Edward P. Duplex was elected Mayor, the first black man to be elected mayor of a Western United States city.

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.

* John " Liver-Eating " Johnston was elected the first marshal in Red Lodge in 1888.

Their younger brother John Mercer Langston, who became the first black elected to the United States Congress from Virginia in 1888, also graduated from Oberlin.

* John Mercer Langston ( 1829 – 1899 ), abolitionist, activist, educator and politician – first dean of Howard University law school, first president of Virginia State University, in 1888 first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.

He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1888, was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902, and was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1904 and of the Aristotelian Society from 1914-15.

He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1888.

He served as the Mayor of Berne from 1888 to 1895, and was an elected member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1895 to 1919.

With Cowles ' enmity ended by Hanna's sale of the Herald, the latter had little trouble being elected as a district delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention.

The Local Government Act 1888 created elected county councils to administer services throughout England and Wales.

He wrote articles on foreign affairs for the République Française and Paris, and in 1888 was elected conseiller général of his native département, standing as " un disciple fidèle de Léon Gambetta.

He served in the state legislature between 1882 and 1888, then was elected solicitor in the eighth Judicial Circuit, where he stayed until 1901.

Under the Local Government Bill of 1888, which proposed the introduction of elected county councils, the Isle was to form part of Cambridgeshire.

Duly elected Fellow in 1878, he became vice-master of the college in 1888.