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==Events==
==Events==
* [[April 26]]: The [[Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument]] in [[Linn Park]] was formally dedicated.
* [[April 26]]: The [[Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument]] in [[Linn Park]] was formally dedicated.
* [[August 6]]: Urban folklore claims [[Hazel Farris]] killed her husband, three policemen, and a deputy sheriff.
* [[October 22]]: [[Sells & Downs Shows]] ended its run in [[Sylacauga]] and then wintered in Birmingham.
* [[October 22]]: [[Sells & Downs Shows]] ended its run in [[Sylacauga]] and then wintered in Birmingham.
* [[Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West]] wintered in Birmingham.
* [[October 24]]: [[List of Presidential visits|President Theodore Roosevelt]] visited [[Capitol Park]] and the [[Alabama State Fairgrounds]].
* December: A group of women secured the donation of the site for the future [[Bessemer Public Library]].
* [[Alice Furnace]] No. 1 was torn down.
* [[Birmingham Temple Lodge No. 636]] was chartered.
* The development of Booker, later called [[Docena]], began.
* Horse Creek was renamed [[Dora]] in honor of [[Dora Freil]].
* [[Pawnee Bill's|Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West]] wintered in Birmingham.
* An [[1905 Virginia Mines explosion|explosion at the Virginia Mines]] killed over 100 miners.
* [[Vulcan]] was returned to Birmingham from St. Louis and dumped beside a railroad siding on [[Red Mountain]].


===Business===
===Business===
* [[April 28]]: [[Ensley Furnace No. 6]] was blown in.
* [[June 23]]: [[Woodward Furnace No. 3]] was blown in.
* [[October 9]]: [[American Cast Iron Pipe Company]] was incorporated by [[John Joseph Eagan]].
* [[October 9]]: [[American Cast Iron Pipe Company]] was incorporated by [[John Joseph Eagan]].
* [[Truman Aldrich]] bought back the [[Montevallo Mining Company]].
* [[Mary Anderson (inventor)|Mary Anderson]]'s attempt to sell the rights to her windshield wiper through Dinning and Eckenstein was rejected.
* Commercial photography studio [[Birmingham View Company]] was founded.
* Commercial photography studio [[Birmingham View Company]] was founded.
* [[Blach's]] moved to a larger store on the northwest corner of [[3rd Avenue North]] and [[19th Street North|19th Street].
* [[Engel Realty Company]] was founded as an insurance underwriter.
* The [[Florence Hotel]] was leased by [[R. D. Burnett, Sr]] and completely refurbished.
* [[E. L. Huey Furniture Company]] was started in [[Bessemer]] by [[E. L. Huey]] and [[Chambers McAdory]].
* [[E. L. Huey Furniture Company]] was started in [[Bessemer]] by [[E. L. Huey]] and [[Chambers McAdory]].
* The [[Majestic Theatre]] opened.
* The [[Majestic Theatre]] opened.
* The Columbia Amusement Company secured a lease on the [[O'Brien's Opera House]] and renamed it the Gayety Theatre.
* [[Peek Beverage Company]] was established by chemist [[Jefferson J. Peek]].
* [[Peek Beverage Company]] was established by chemist [[Jefferson J. Peek]].
* [[Wiseola]] was established.
* [[Wiseola]] was established.
* The [[Milner & Kettig Company]] was acquired by the Crane Company of Chicago, Illinois and was operated as that company's Birmingham branch.
* [[John Walker Percy]] and [[Augustus Benners]] founded the law firm of [[Burr & Forman|Percy & Benners]].


<!-- ===Education===
===Education===
* [[February 28]]: The first class of [[Hillman Hospital]]'s Training School for Nurses was graduated.
* [[William Drennen]] became president of the [[Birmingham Board of Education]].
* [[A. H. Parker]] was elected president of the Alabama State Teacher's Association.
* [[St Mark's School]] was damaged by a fire.


=== Government ===
=== Government ===
[[Image:George Ward 1905.jpg|right|thumb|150px|George Ward]]
* [[March 5]]: [[William Jelks]] resumed office as [[Governor of Alabama|Governor]] after contracting tuberculosis.
* [[May 4]]: [[George Ward]] succeeded [[Mel Drennen]] as [[Mayor of Birmingham]].
* The head of the [[Weather Forecast Office Birmingham|Weather Bureau's Birmingham Station Agency]], [[W. A. Mitchell]], was replaced by [[W. F. Lehman]].
* [[Will Walton]] succeeded [[Thad Mullin]] as Chief of the [[Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service|Birmingham Fire Department]].
===Religion===
* [[January 20]]: [[St Mark's Catholic Church (Thomas)|St Mark's Catholic Church]] was established in [[Thomas]].
* [[July 1]]: [[Raimundo deOvies]] became the first rector of [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church]].
* December: St Andrew's Episcopal Church was formally incorporated.
* [[George Bates]] succeeded [[Arthur Burrill]] as pastor of [[Pilgrim Church]].
* [[James Duncan]] became pastor of [[First United Methodist Church|First Methodist Episcopal Church South]].
* [[First Congregational Christian Church]] moved from [[26th Street North|26th Street]] and [[3rd Avenue North]] to the 600 block of [[15th Street North]].


===Religion=== -->
===Sports===
===Sports===
* [[November 18]]: [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] beat [[Auburn Tigers football|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]] by a score of 3-0 in the [[1905 Iron Bowl]] played at [[West End Park]] before a then-record crowd of 4,600.  
* [[November 18]]: [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]] beat [[Auburn Tigers football|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]] by a score of 3-0 in the [[1905 Iron Bowl]] played at [[West End Park]] before a then-record crowd of 4,600.
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* [[Davis Stakely]] coached the [[Samford Bulldogs football|Howard Bulldogs]] to a  1-2-1 season.


==Individuals==
==Individuals==
* [[September 27]]: [[Arthur Brown]] married [[Nellie Brown|Mamie Nellie Adams]].
* [[William Bankhead]] moved to [[Jasper]].
* [[A. G. Gaston]] moved to Birmingham as a boy with his mother.
* [[Erskine Ramsay]] purchased the [[Caldwell Bradshaw residence]].
* [[Rick Woodward]] became vice president of the [[Woodward Iron Company]].


===Births===
===Births===
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* [[February 24]]: [[John Weld]], stuntman and writer
* [[February 24]]: [[John Weld]], stuntman and writer
* [[April 9]]: [[Ida Moffett]], nurse
* [[April 9]]: [[Ida Moffett]], nurse
* [[August 8]]: [[Heman Drummond]], founder of the [[Drummond Company]]
* [[August 30]]: [[John A. Austin]], US Navy chief warrant officer killed at Pearl Harbor
* [[September 9]]: [[Charlie Perkins]], Major League baseball pitcher
* [[September 9]]: [[Charlie Perkins]], Major League baseball pitcher
* [[October 3]]: [[Epp Sykes]], Air Force general and "[[Yea Alabama!]]" composer
* [[October 3]]: [[Epp Sykes]], Air Force general and "[[Yea Alabama!]]" composer
* [[November 1]]: [[Dupree Greer]], architect
* [[November 19]]: [[Garnet Leader]], painter
* [[November 19]]: [[Garnet Leader]], painter
* [[December 9]]: [[Snitz Snider]], Olympian, football player, and football coach
* [[December 9]]: [[Snitz Snider]], Olympian, football player, and football coach
* [[December 4]]: [[James F. Sulzby, Jr]], businessman
* [[December 4]]: [[James Sulzby Jr]], businessman
* [[Eugenia Woodward Hitt]], art collector
* [[Eugenia Woodward Hitt]], art collector


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===Graduations===
* [[Elizabeth Hale]], from the [[Hillman Hospital]] Training School for Nurses.
 
===Marriages===
* [[May 21]]: [[Bob Wharton]] married [[Leslie Wharton|Leslie McKinstry]].
* [[Culpepper Exum]] married the former Lestra Kinney.
* [[Giuseppe Moretti]] married [[Dorthea Moretti|Dorthea Long]].
 
===Deaths===
===Deaths===
* [[January 21]]: [[John Altman]], attorney and Chancellor
* [[January 21]]: [[John Altman]], attorney and Chancellor
* [[January 25]]: [[Charles Hooper]], merchant
* [[January 25]]: [[Charles Hooper]], merchant
* [[July 3]]: Firefighters [[Gip Spruiell]] and [[E. B. Huffman]] were the [[List of Birmingham firsts‎|first]] members of the [[Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service|Birmingham Fire Department]] to be killed in the line of duty when the [[Birmingham Paper Company]] building on [[Morris Avenue]] collapsed on them during a pre-dawn blaze.
* August: [[Thomas Hillman]], partner in the [[Alice Furnaces]]
* [[August 28]]: [[H. A. Wilson]], U.S. Commissioner and newspaper publisher
* [[August 30]]: [[Paul Gilardoni]], chef and restaurateur
* August 30: [[Joseph Riley Smith]], physician and landowner
* [[October 20]]: [[William Berney]], banker
* [[October 20]]: [[William Berney]], banker
* [[December 10]]: "[[Too Slick]]", a workhorse for the [[Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service|Birmingham Fire Department]]
* [[List of homicides in 1905]]


==Works==
==Works==
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* [[214 – 216 20th Street North]]
* [[214 – 216 20th Street North]]
* [[218 20th Street North]]
* [[218 20th Street North]]
* [[Birmingham Realty Company building]]
* Paper warehouse at 1720 2nd Avenue North (now part of [[Railroad Square]])
* [[Donnelly House]]
* Original [[Firehouse Shelter|Birmingham Fire Station No. 6]]
* [[Goodall-Brown Lofts|Goodall-Brown building]]
* [[Birmingham Realty Company building]] at 2118 1st Avenue North
* [[Majestic Theatre]]
* [[Dobbins Building]] at 1506 Ridge Road
* [[James Duncan residence]] at 705 [[Huntsville Avenue]] in [[Tarrant]]
* [[W. S. Brown Mercantile Building]] at 2223-2225 [[2nd Avenue North]]
* [[Goodall-Brown Lofts|Goodall-Brown building]] at 2200 1st Avenue North
* [[Highland View Apartments]] at 1300 21st Street South
* [[Majestic Theatre]] at 1808-10 3rd Avenue North
* [[Massey Business College building]] at 2024 3rd Avenue North
* [[Parker's Mill Ford Bridge]] over the [[Little Cahaba River]]
* [[Railroad Square|Paper warehouse]] at 1720 2nd Avenue North
* [[Railroad Square|Paper warehouse]] at 1720 2nd Avenue North
* [[Jayfe Ware residence]]
* The original [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church]]
* [[Thomas Rowan residence]] at 1900 Montevallo Road Southwest in [[Leeds]]
* [[Jayfe Ware residence]] on [[Old Springville Road]] in [[Clay]]
* [[First Baptist Church of Sylacauga|Sylacauga Baptist Church]]
 
====Demolitions====
* [[National Bank of Birmingham building]]
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Drish House c1905.jpg|[[Drish House]] c. 1905
File:Chalifoux Building.jpg|[[Chalifoux Building]] c. 1905
</gallery>


==Context==
==Context==

Latest revision as of 12:56, 20 November 2023

1905 was the 34th year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

Business

Education

Government

George Ward

Religion

Sports

Individuals

Births

Graduations

Marriages

Deaths

Works

Buildings

Demolitions

Gallery

Context

In 1905, the play The Scarlet Pimpernel opened at the New Theatre in London with a new final act. The Cullinan Diamond was found near Pretoria, South Africa. Rotary International was founded. President Theodore Roosevelt began a full term. Albert Einstein published his paper On a heuristic viewpoint concerning the production and transformation of light, in which he explained the photoelectric effect using the notion of light quanta. In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hit the Kangra valley, killed 20,000, and destroyed most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala. Albert Einstein submitted his doctoral dissertation On the Motion of Small Particles..., in which he explained Brownian motion. Las Vegas was founded. Norway gained independence from Sweden. Albert Einstein published the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies where he revealed his theory of special relativity. The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were established. Albert Einstein submitted his paper Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? in which he developed an argument for the famous equation E = mc². The Russo-Japanese War was ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth in New Hampshire. The Russian Revolution of 1905 took place, forcing Tsar Nicholas II to establish the Duma.


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