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In 1890, Buffalo entrepreneur and philanthropist, John J. Albright, a wealthy Buffalo industrialist, began the construction of the Albright Art Gallery for the Academy.
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Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance ( December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932 ), born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes.
William Francis Kemmler ( May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890 ) of Buffalo, New York, was a convicted murderer and the first person in the world to be executed using an electric chair.
He played for the Buffalo Bisons ( 1880 ), Providence Grays ( 1881 – 1885 ), Boston Beaneaters ( 1886 – 1889 ), Boston Reds ( 1890 ), and Cincinnati Reds ( 1891 ).
( An " outlaw " team also known as the Buffalo Bisons also played in the Players ' League, an upstart third major league, in 1890, but that team is not currently considered part of the Bisons history.
He and Mack joined the Buffalo Bisons of the Players League in 1890, after which Hoy returned to the AA with the St. Louis Browns under player-manager Charles Comiskey for the league's final season in 1891, leading the league with 119 walks and scoring a career-high 136 runs ( second in the league ).
In 1890, Rowe concluded his playing career as a player, manager, and owner of the Buffalo Bisons in the newly organized Players ' League.
In 1890, Buffalo Bill took his Wild West show to Rome and northern Italy ( during his tour of Europe ) to display cowboy skills, such as the capture of young cattle and the taming of wild horses.
The first Sun Life Building, designed by Buffalo architect Richard Waite, was built in 1889 and expanded by Robert Findlay in 1890.
One colorful visit was from the American entertainer Buffalo Bill who brought his Western show in 1890.
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Tilton Library, endowed by New Orleans businessman and philanthropist Frederick William Tilton ( 1821 – 1890 ).
**** Harry Frank Guggenheim philanthropist who privately funded Goddard's liquid fuel rocket research ( 1890 – 1971 )
* Charles Loring Brace ( 1826 – 1890 ) was a philanthropist and was most renowned for founding the Children's Aid Society.
Jeptha Homer Wade ( August 11, 1811 – August 9, 1890 ) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph.
Charles Loring Brace ( June 19, 1826 in Litchfield, Connecticut-August 11, 1890 ) was a contributing philanthropist in the field of social reform.
Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques ( 1890 – 1961 ) was a Jewish philanthropist of Portuguese origins, concentrating his work in the East End of London during the first half of the 20th century.
Sir Arthur Renwick, a doctor, philanthropist and politician built his home here in 1890 and called it Abbotsford House in honour of Sir Walter Scott's home.
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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 ).
While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.
Nonetheless, John Forrest immediately adopted the title on taking office as first premier of Western Australia in 1890, and it has been used ever since.
The Giants already had their share of stars during its brief history at this point, such as Smiling Mickey Welch, Roger Connor, Tim Keefe, Jim O ' Rourke and John Montgomery Ward, the player-lawyer who formed the renegade Players League in 1890 to protest unfair player contracts.
His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).
When the name of Saint John of Damascus was inserted in the General Roman Calendar in 1890, it was assigned to 27 March.
John Muir publicized the damage to the subalpine meadows that surround the Valley and in 1890, the government created a national park that included a much larger territory — enclosing Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove.
Laurent-Perrier's advertisements in late 1890 boasted their Champagne was the favourite of King Leopold II of Belgium, George I of Greece, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Margaret Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge, and John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham, among other nobles, knights, and military officers.
For 1890 – 1940 details, see In 1946, knowing of the Bureau's funding of Hollerith and, later, Powers, John Mauchly approached the Bureau about early funding for UNIVAC development.
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