1880

1880 was the ninth year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

Events

• 16th Street Baptist Church bought the property of its current site.
• F. W. Beall became Chief of the Birmingham Police Department.
• Rufus Cobb was re-elected Governor of Alabama.
• Thomas Jeffers was re-elected Mayor of Birmingham.
• Linn's Crossing Cemetery and Graham Cemetery were established.
• Payne Institute was established.
• Pleasant Sabine Baptist Church in Bibb County was founded.
• Andrew Tarrant was elected tax assessor for Jefferson County.

Business

• A. O. Lane became editor of the Birmingham Iron Age.
• Samuel Greene began practicing law in Jasper.
• Sisters Bertha and Estella Sommers founded the Parisian Dry Goods & Millinery Company.
• James Van Hoose went to work for the J. M. Maxwell and Company wholesale grocers.
• The Woodward Iron Company began operations in the Birmingham District.
• June 10: Edwards Furnace was blown in.
• November 23: Alice Furnace No. 1 was blown in.

Individuals

• Brother Bryan entered the University of North Carolina.
• Franklin Glass achieved his master's degree at Princeton University.
• Robert A. Morris joined the Alabama National Guard.
• John Phillips graduated Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, with a bachelor of arts.
• Physician Charles Whelan moved to Birmingham.

Births

• May 6: William Simmons, founder of the 2nd Ku Klux Klan
• July 25: Lloyd Noland, physician

Context

In 1880, Wabash, Indiana became the first electrically lit city in the world. France annexed Tahiti. Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hanged. The First Boer War began.

Notable births included those of Douglas MacArthur, W.C. Fields, Helen Keller, and H. L. Mencken. Deaths in 1880 included those of Lydia Maria Child and Jacques Offenbach.

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