1891

Events from the year 1891 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Benjamin Harrison (R-IN)
* Vice President: Levi P. Morton (R-NY)
* Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (IL)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Brackett Reed (R-ME) (until March 4), Charles Frederick Crisp (D-GA) (starting December 8)
* Congress: 51st (until March 4), 52nd (starting March 4)
==Events==
* January 20 – Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
* January 27 – Mammoth Mine disaster
* January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
* March 3
** The International Copyright Act of 1891 is passed by the 51st United States Congress.
** Yellowstone Timberland Reserve, predecessor of Shoshone National Forest, in Wyoming is established as the first United States National Forest.
* March 14 – In New Orleans, a lynch mob storms the Old Parish Prison and lynches 11 Italians who had been found not guilty of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy.
* March 30 – Shoshone National Forest is established in Wyoming, the first U.S. National Forest.
* April 1 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
* May 5 – The Music Hall in New York (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.
* May 20 – Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope is first displayed at Edison's Laboratory, for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
* June 1 – The Johnstown Inclined Plane opens in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
* June 21 – First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado by Lucien and Paul Nunn.
* October 1 – Stanford University in California opens its doors.
* October 16 – White River National Forest is established in Colorado.
* November 28 – The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is organized in St. Louis, Missouri.
* December 17 – Drexel University is inaugurated as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry in Philadelphia.
==Memoriam==
* January 5 – Emma Abbott, operatic soprano (aged 40; Salt Lake City, UT Territory, USA)
* January 17 – George Bancroft, historian (aged 90; Washington, DC, USA)
* January 29 – William Windom, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1870 to 1881 and from 1881 to 1883 (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 14 – William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 21 – James Timberlake, law enforcement officer (aged 44; Liberty, MO, USA)
* February 28 – George Hearst, U.S. Senator from California from 1887 to 1891 (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 6
** George M. Chilcott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1882 to 1883 (aged 63; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Joshua Hill, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1871 to 1873 (aged 79; Madison, GA, USA)
* March 21 – Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate Army general (aged 84; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 2 – Albert Pike, Confederate military officer, attorney, writer and Freemason (aged 81; Charleston, SC, USA)
* April 14 – Annie Nowlin Savery, suffragist (aged 60; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 3 – Charles C. Foote, American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist and temperance activist (aged 80; White Lake, MI, USA)
* June 9 – Henry Edwards, entomologist and actor (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 17 – Harrison Ludington, 13th Governor of Wisconsin from 1876 to 1878 (aged 78; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
* June 21 – Joseph E. McDonald, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1875 to 1881 (aged 71; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
* July 4 – Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (aged 81; Bangor, ME, USA)
* August 5 – Thomas S. Bocock, U.S. Congressman, Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives (aged 76; Appomattox County, VA, USA)
* August 12 – James Russell Lowell, Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat and abolitionist (aged 72; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* August 14
** John Henry Hopkins Jr., clergyman and hymnist (aged 70; Hudson, NY, USA)
** Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States as wife of James K, Polk (aged 87; Nashville, TN, USA)
* August 27 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1861 to 1873 (aged 75; Whitinsville, MA, USA)
* September 10 – Charles B. Clark, politician and entrepreneur (aged 47; Watertown, NY, USA)
* September 28 – Herman Melville, novelist, short story writer and poet (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 16 – Sarah Winnemucca, Northern Paiute author, activist and educator (aged 47; Henry's Lake, ID, USA)
* November 6 – J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor (aged 73; St. Albans, VT, USA)
* November 7 – Comanche, horse, survivor of Custer's cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (aged 29; Fort Riley, KS, USA)
* November 17 – George H. Cooper, admiral (aged 70; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* December 7 – Mary Crane, activist; mother of writer Stephen Crane (aged 64; Paterson, NJ, USA)
* December 12 – Julia A. Ames, reformer (aged 30; Boston, MA, USA)
* December 20 – Preston B. Plumb, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (aged 64; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 29 – Marion McKinley Bovard, academic administrator, 1st President of the University of Southern California (aged 44; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
==External links==
* 1891 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 12