Concern for social problems among Chicago's immigrant poor led Jane Addams to co-found Hull House in 1889.

He acted as electoral agent for Samuel Montagu in Whitechapel at the General Election of 1886, and for Jane Cobden, who stood for election to the London County Council as a Liberal candidate in 1889.

The family was connected with the Carlyles, and early in 1889 Ritchie edited a volume of Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle.

The architect was buried in the lair adjacent to that in which his five deceased children were laid to rest, in Gorbals Southern Necropolis, on 26 March 1875, and he was joined there by his widow, Jane, in 1889.

In 1889, Gray married Jane Matthews, who was the daughter of his former colleague on the court, Thomas Stanley Matthews.

* Edward Chaney and Jane Hall, ‘ Herbert Horne ’ s 1889 Diary of his first Journey to Italy ’, The Walpole Society, LXIV ( 2002 ), pp. 69 – 125

The other two children, Joseph Henry and Mary Jane, both died before 1889.

The most famous Settlement House in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after they had visited Toynbee Hall in 1888.

* Lady Charlotte Jane Seymour ( 1803 – 7 October 1889 ), m. 31 March 1839 William Blount, of Orelton, Herefordshire ( d. 27 July 1885 )

However, on 28 December 1889, Emila Jane Webb died, aged 63.

In 1889 she and her college friend and intimate partner, Ellen Gates Starr, co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, the first settlement house in the United States.

In 1889, Svinhufvud married Alma ( Ellen ) Timgren ( 1869 – 1953 ).

" The next definite performance was in 1889, when George Osmond Tearle directed another stand-alone production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, starring Erskine Lewis as Henry and Ellen Cranston as Margaret.

He was married a second time in 1889 to Ellen Haycraft, sister of Professor John Berry Haycraft.

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, by John Singer Sargent, 1889

* Mother Teresa Ellen Dease ( 4 May 1820-1 July 1889 ), foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Loretto Sisters ) in North America ( at Toronto )

William Henry BuryWilliam Henry Bury ( 25 May 1859 – 24 April 1889 ) had recently moved to Dundee from the East End of London, when he strangled his wife Ellen Elliott, a former prostitute, on 4 February 1889.

* William Henry Bury ( 1859-1889 ) was executed in Dundee, Scotland, for the murder of his wife Ellen in 1889.

In 1889, the Dwight School for Girls was founded as a college preparatory school by Euphemia S. Creighton and Ellen W. Farrar.

William Henry Bury ( 25 May 1859 – 24 April 1889 ) was executed in Dundee, Scotland, for the murder of his wife Ellen in 1889, shortly after the height of the Whitechapel murders in London that were attributed to the unidentified serial killer " Jack the Ripper ".

William claimed that he had strangled Ellen without premeditation on the night of 4 – 5 February 1889 during a drunken row over money, and that he had tried to dismember the body for disposal the next day but was too squeamish to continue.

Elizabeth Hamilton ( 1847 – 1901 ); Agnes Crooks ( 1849 – 1889 ); James ( 1851 – 1920 ); Alexander ( 1853 – 1900 ); Marion ( 1855 – 1892 ); Mary Jean ( 1862 – 1928 ); Emily Ellen ( 1864 – 1944 ); Jessie Sophia ( 1866 – 1946 ); Annie Euphemia ( 1868 – 1952 ); Henrietta Maude ( 1872 – 1950 ).

The great Shakespearean actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry performed for the Queen in 1889 and 1893.

In that year's census he was a widower, his wife Ellen having died in 1889, and his occupation was then shown as ' Professional Cricketer '.

McGill remarried Ellen Angel Fairweather of Adelaide in 1889.

Harriman was founded as a Temperance Town in 1889 by Temperance movement activists led by New York-born minister and plant manager Frederick Gates.

Seeking a land venture that could attract industrial and economic development while avoiding the vice-driven pitfalls of late 19th century company towns, Gates and fellow prohibitionists chartered the East Tennessee Land Company in May 1889 and in subsequent months acquired several hundred thousand acres of land around what is now Harriman.

The Rockefeller University was founded in June 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research — often called simply The Rockefeller Institute — by John D. Rockefeller, who had founded the University of Chicago in 1889, upon advice by his adviser Frederick T. Gates and action taken in March 1901 by his son, John D. Rockefeller Jr.

* 1848 – Belle Starr, American outlaw ( d. 1889 )

** Belle Starr, American outlaw ( d. 1889 )

Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr ( February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889 ), better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

Japan's consulate in Vancouver was established in 1889, 40 years before its embassy was opened in Ottawa in 1929.

The original mantles gave a green-tinted light and were not very successful, and his first company, which established a factory in Atzgersdorf in 1887, failed in 1889.

Accident insurance was provided in 1884, while old age pensions and disability insurance were established in 1889.

* 1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.

In 1889, French athletics associations had grouped together for the first time and Coubertin founded a monthly magazine La Revue Athletique, the first French periodical devoted exclusively to athletics and modelled on The Athlete, an English journal established around 1862.

After the discovery and excavation of these monuments and associated stone slabs by Russian archaeologists in the wider area surrounding the Orkhon Valley between 1889 and 1893, it became established that the language on the inscriptions was the Old Turkic language written using the Orkhon script, which has also been referred to as " Turkic runes " or " runiform " due to a superficial similarity to the Germanic runic alphabets.

The first established records of the Turkic languages are the eighth century Orkhon inscriptions by the Göktürks, recording the Old Turkic language, which were discovered in 1889 in the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia.

By the end of the 1880s, France had established what passed for effective control over the coastal regions of Côte d ' Ivoire, and in 1889 Britain recognized French sovereignty in the area.

The IBWC traces its institutional roots to 1889, when the International Boundary Committee was established to maintain the border.

Category: Populated places established in 1889

The traditional district was eventually combined into the traditional county of Inverness-shire along with the traditional district of Inverness and parts of Lochaber and some island districts during reorganisation due to Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1889, this Act established a uniform system of county councils and town councils in Scotland and restructured many of Scotland ’ s counties.

Category: Companies established in 1889

Aomori Town was established in 1889.

The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1889 established a uniform system of county councils in Scotland and realigned the boundaries of many of Scotland ’ s counties.

After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool and Scotland in 1889.

An 1889 agreement with France established the present boundaries, and The Gambia became a British Crown Colony, divided for administrative purposes into the colony ( city of Banjul and the surrounding area ) and the protectorate ( remainder of the territory ).

An 1889 agreement with France established the present boundaries.

Category: Religious organizations established in 1889

Between 1888 and 1889, democratic County Councils were established in Great Britain.

Three years later, in 1889, the construction of a primitive hydro-electric factory at Cascade of the Jarrauds ( Cascade des Jarrauds ) on the little River Maulde at Saint-Martin-Château, away, established a more reliable electricity supply for the little town.

* 1889 Norris community established.

The Texas legislature established Coke County in 1889, out of Tom Green County.

Despite forming part of the built up area of London the parish remained outside the statutory metropolitan area established in 1855 and the County of London established in 1889.