In 1897 Dr. Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

# 1893 – 1897 Dr. Joseph H. Senner ( Democrat )

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

In 1897, Dr. Philip O ' Hanlon, a coroner's assistant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia ( 1889 – 1971 ), whether Santa Claus really existed.

A community that had existed here had no official name until Dr. A. H. Collins established a post office in May 1897.

* For further details see the Biographical History of Caius College, by Dr John Venn ( 1897 ).

His wife, Lady Ramsay, granddaughter of Dr Andrew Marshall of Kirkintilloch, accompanied him in many of his journeys and is the author of Everyday Life in Turkey ( 1897 ) and The Romance of Elisavet ( 1899 ).

In 1897, Dr. Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician and pathologist, demonstrated that beriberi is caused by poor diet, and discovered that feeding unpolished rice ( instead of the polished variety ) to chickens helped to prevent beriberi.

In 1897 the Rib Lake Herald newspaper began publishing and a Dr. Werner started a practice.

Shiel's novel centers on the murder of two German missionaries in Kiau-Tschou in 1897 and features the Chinese villain, Dr.

In the Scottish Orpheus ( 1897 ), Adam Hamilton gives the song as " Composed by Dr E. F. Rimbault.

Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg ( until 1919 Kurt Alois Josef Johann Edler von Schuschnigg, 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977 ) was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Nazi Germany ’ s annexing of Austria, ( Anschluss ), in March 1938.

A member of the B ' ne Moshe and Hoveve Zion movements in Ukraine, he was one of the organizers with Dr. Theodore Herzl of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in the fall of 1897.

Ernst Brand ( 1826 – 1897 ) of Berlin, Raljen and Theodor von Jürgensen of Kiel, and Karl Liebermeister of Basel, between 1860 and 1870, employed the cooling bath in abdominal typhus with striking results, and led to its introduction to England by Dr Wilson Fox.

It was under German rule that Dr. M. Zupitza, then serving as the local medical officer, encountered the plague outbreak in Kiziba ( 1897 – 1898 ).

Eisenmenger syndrome was so named by Dr. Paul Wood after Dr. Victor Eisenmenger, who first described the condition in 1897.

Salisbury steak was invented by an American physician, Dr. J. H. Salisbury ( 1823 – 1905 ), an early proponent of a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss ; the term " Salisbury steak " has been in use in the United States since 1897.

In 1897, he was elected to the position of comptroller of the treasury of Maryland, but was defeated in the next election by Dr. Joshua W. Hering.

In 1897 the Venlo-born priest parliamentarian Dr. Willem Nolens uttered in the Lower Chamber of the Dutch parliament the phrase that would eventually lead to the formation of the Limburg State Mines: " A country that does not know how to use its natural resources of wealth demonstrates that it is not worthy of them ".

The Cairo Geniza was located in a room adjoining The Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, which was gradually stuffed full of papers until it was discovered by European scholar Dr Solomon Schechter in 1897.

Piri's father, Dr. Paul Vermes ( 1897 – 1968 ), was a Hungarian refugee who became a professional mathematician at the age of 50.

Dr. Evans continued to serve as the Chairman of the Denver Seminary Board of Trustees until his death on July 2, 1897.

* June 8 – George Garrett, composer ( d. 1897 )

Garrett, who was appointed Doña Ana County sheriff on August 10, 1896, and elected to the post on January 4, 1897, believed he would never get a fair hearing regarding his evidence while Fall was in control of the courts.

* 1897 – Marian Anderson, American contralto ( d. 1993 )

* April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto ( b. 1897 )

* January 3 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress ( b. 1897 )

Marian Anderson ( February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993 ) was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.

Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Berkley Anderson and the former Annie Delilah Rucker.

* John Anderson ( mayor ) ( 1820 – 1897 ), mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand

* John Anderson ( blacksmith ) ( 1820 – 1897 ), New Zealand blacksmith, engineer, businessman and local politician

* John Byers Anderson ( 1817 – 1897 ), educator, railroad contractor and United States Army officer

It was discovered in 1897 by Robert A. Nelson, Melville Anderson, and Will Fitzgerald, who crawled into a small opening next to a large, well-known spring.

In 1897 or shortly before, the Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad was constructed by the Terry Lumber Company from Anderson to Bella Vista, passing through the settlement of Palo Cedro.

In 1897 the Interurban Railroad was born in Anderson.

: 15px This article incorporates text from Landmarks of Rensselaer County New York, by George Baker Anderson ( 1897 ), a publication now in the public domain.

The first cotton gin in the world to be operated by electricity was built in Anderson County in 1897.

He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony, but that a record should be played of Schubert's " Ave Maria " sung by Marian Anderson, and that his granite headstone should read simply: " Wilhelm Reich, Born March 24, 1897, Died ..."

Shaw had already used her as inspiration for some of his plays before their first meeting in 1897 when he unsuccessfully tried to persuade " Mrs Pat " to play the role of Judith Anderson in the first production of his play The Devil's Disciple.

He met Marine Anderson at the Lutheran church in Everett, where they were married in 1897.

His life is featured in the book, The “ Blackwood ” Group by Sir George Douglas, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1897.

Born in Magee, New York in 1866, Anderson earned his PhD in 1897 at Cornell University.

Omond ( 1897 ), Fletcher of Saltoun, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, (" Famous Scots Series ")

* William Anderson ( Canadian politician born 1822 ) ( 1822 – 1897 ), Canadian politician

Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC, MC ( 12 February 1897 – 11 November 1988 ) was a South African-born, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, a member of the Australian House of Representatives, and a farmer.