* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

* 1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross, American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas ( d. 1898 )

The eastern border with Allegany County was defined by the Bauer Report, submitted to Governor Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. on November 9, 1898.

* Phillips Lee Goldsborough ( August 6, 1865 – October 22, 1946 ), a member of the United States Republican Party, was a United States Senator representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935, 47th Governor of Maryland from 1912 to 1916 and Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1898 to 1900

* David Ogden Watkins ( 1862 – 1938 ), the acting Governor of New Jersey from 1898 to 1899 and former mayor of Woodbury from 1886 to 1890.

On March 3, 1898, New Jersey Senate President Foster M. Voorhees, the acting Governor of New Jersey, signed a bill incorporating “ Sea Side Park ” as an independent borough, created from portions of Berkeley Township.

On March 15, 1898, the Borough of Totowa was officially incorporated under Chapter 56 of the Laws of New Jersey, signed by Governor John Griggs.

In 1898, Ohio Governor Asa Bushnell chose a cluster of unsold lots around Broad and Drexel in Bullitt Park as an assembly site for those headed for war.

The 1898 statute granted the Commissioner in Council “ the same powers to make ordinances ... as are possessed by the Lieutenant Governor of the North-west Territories, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly thereof .” In 1908, amendments to the Yukon Act transformed the Council into an elected body.

After San Juan, Wood led the 2nd Cavalry Brigade for the rest of the war ; he stayed in Cuba after the war and was appointed the Military Governor of Santiago in 1898, and of Cuba from 1899 – 1902.

After his term as Governor, Colcord was named Superintendent of the United States Mint's Carson City Mint, a position he held from 1898 to 1911.

The new Hong Kong Governor Henry Blake arrived in November 1898.

Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891, Macdonald's prediction came true when Lord Minto was named Governor General of Canada in the summer of 1898.

He was appointed honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Governor General's Foot Guards Regiment on 1 December 1898 and was subsequently appointed Honorary Colonel, a tradition that has continued with the post of Governors General to this day.

Sir George Grey, KCB ( 14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898 ) was a soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony ( South Africa ), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer.

He later became Lord Minto and served as Governor General between 1898 and 1904.

Jones was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1896, and was reelected in 1898.

* Sir George Grey ( 1812 – 1898 ), Governor of Cape Colony, South Australia and New Zealand

He was the younger brother of U. S. Representative George Shannon " Doc " Long and Governor and U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Long's younger sister was Lucille Long Hunt ( 1898 – 1985 ) of Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana and the mother of future Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John S. Hunt, III ( 1928 – 2001 ), of Monroe.

Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, KCMG ( March 5, 1813 – August 24, 1898 ), was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897.

He married Josephine Hamilton, the daughter of the former Maryland Governor William T. Hamilton December 21, 1898, in Hagerstown, Maryland, and had a son, Hiram Hamilton Maxim, and a daughter, Percy Hamilton Maxim, who married John Glessner Lee, the grandson of John J. Glessner.

In June 1898, the existing mule car service was phased out and a transition to electric trams, initially operated by the West India Electric Company and later by the Jamaica Public Service Company, was undertaken.

Leonard P. Howell was a Mystic Jamaican born in the hills of Clarendon, Jamaica in 1898.

After his passing, hurricane warning services were assumed by the United States Signal Corp and United States Weather Bureau over the next decade, first based in Jamaica in 1898 and Cuba in 1899 before shifting to Washington, D. C. in 1902 .< ref name =" Simpson "> The central office in Washington, which would evolve into the National Meteorological Center and Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, assumed hurricane warning / advisory responsibility at that time.

Broad Channel remained a parcel within the Town of Jamaica until the consolidation of New York City in 1898.

In 1898 the family moved to Neenah, Wisconsin where Frank Hawks began working for his father-in-law's Howard Paper Company.

A Russian sea captain noted oil seeps along the shore of the Cook Inlet as early as 1853, and oil drilling began in 1898 in a number of locations along the southern coast of Alaska.

Italian inventor Enrico Forlanini began working on hydrofoils in 1898, and used a “ ladder ” foils system.

After briefly considering Lev Mey's The Tsar's Bride as a subject ( later taken up in 1898 by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, his 9th opera ), Borodin began looking for a new project for his first opera.

On returning to California in 1898, London began working deliberately to get published, a struggle described in his novel, Martin Eden.

Construction work began in 1898 and continued till 1912.

Rolls graduated from Cambridge University-where he won a Half Blue at cycling-in 1898, and began working on the steam yacht Santa Maria followed by a position at the London and North Western Railway in Crewe.

After moving to Lausanne with his parents as a boy, he returned to England at the age of 11 without them ; three years later, at " the somewhat advanced age of 14 ," he began attending Malvern College and, later, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1897 to 1898.

Word of the military court's framing of Alfred Dreyfus and of an attendant cover-up began to spread, chiefly owing to J ' accuse, a vehement open letter published in a Paris newspaper in January 1898 by the notable writer Émile Zola.

He was created Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on 31 October 1898 as a victory title commemorating his successes, and began a programme of restoring good governance to the Sudan.

Construction began in 1898 on the Trans-Siberian Railway connecting Chita and Vladivostok, starting at each end and meeting halfway.

Gorky's first book Очерки и рассказы ( Essays and Stories ) in 1898 enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began.

The first large-scale irrigation attempts began in 1898, but it would be years before real success.

Fessenden began experimenting with wireless telephones in 1898 ; by 1899 he had a wireless communication system functioning between Pittsburgh and Allegheny City.

In 1898, Lineville was incorporated, graphite mining became a major industry and National Bank began operating there.

It was not until May 1898 that the White Pass and Yukon Route began laying narrow gauge railroad tracks in Skagway.

After a four-month-long lecture tour that ended in April 1897, Gilman began to think more deeply about sexual relationships and economics in American life, eventually completing the first draft of Women and Economics ( 1898 ).

Brother Adam ( born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, died in 1996 ) was put in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping in 1919, and began extensive breeding work creating the honeybee known as the Buckfast bee.

After graduating in theology in 1898, he was soon tempted to travel to the United States where he began coordinating relations between Danish Lutheran churches in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine.

Residents voted to incorporate the town, and on October 11, 1898, the first election was held, and town government began under President A. F. Diehn.

In 1898 Marcus M. Brown began the development of Mayfield Heights along the north side of Mayfield Road just beyond the Cleveland boundary and to take advantage of the Mayfield Road streetcar.

Bristow began in 1898, when the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway (" Frisco ") built a track between Sapulpa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Depew began as a settlement named Hall in 1898, when the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad ( later merged into the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway ) built a line between Sapulpa, Oklahoma and Oklahoma City.

Incrementally, local merchants and residents began relocating to John Day — primarily each time after severe fires in Canyon City: the Grant County Courthouse burned in 1870, Chinatown burned in 1885, and fires in 1898 and 1937 devastated Canyon City's downtown.