Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1890s
13 dated events in 1890s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 13 dated mentions
1890s
- 1890–2026Schools as the long fight: from a ceiling's collapse to a decree still alive in 2025 — and the test of Penn-Harris-Madison
South Bend never adopted an explicit segregation statute for its schools; its "neighbourhood school" policy and intentionally drawn boundaries did the work, and Linden School, Linden and Adams Streets (opened 1 September 1890), became the system's Black school by demography.
- 1891–2026The club movement and the ballot's institutions — and Granger's one club
The county's club movement is documented at archive strength, none of it seated on this ground: SJCPL's clubs collection (43 boxes, bulk 1910–1970) holds the South Bend Woman's Club, the Progress Club (six boxes and a scrapbook), the Shakespeare Circle from 1891, the county Federation of Clubs and the Women's Civic Club.
- 1891–2026From the studio chair to the Kodak counter
In 1891 he gave up studio photography for the supply trade: as Beatty puts it, "with the advent of portable cameras, he and son Harry became dealers of Kodak cameras and film in a shop at 112 West Wayne Street," developing and finishing included.
- 1893–todayThe campus haunts, told as a group at the boundary: Notre Dame and Saint Mary's
The founder walks beside the football player: Father Edward Sorin, who died on Halloween 1893, is said in the lore to still patrol the campus he founded…
- 1894The Slaughterbecks: Jacob, who cleared 270 acres, and Charley of the Idlewild Stock Farm
Jacob Slaughterbeck came from Germany as a small child, owned 270 acres — all but fifty of them in Harris Township — and cleared the land himself; he died 8 August 1894, aged fifty-six.
- 1894–2006Press photographers: the staff tradition, the courthouse commission, and the art photographer
22 May 1912) began as a traveling photographer, worked for Schanz, and from 1894 — Miner & Dexter at 44 Calhoun, then alone at 23 W. Wayne, renumbered 102 W. Wayne in 1902 — built the studio Griswold described in 1905 as "built for him according to his own plans."
- 1894–2026Every renaming an event: Epworth becomes Memorial, 1945 — and the mental-health making in stages
Epworth Hospital and Training School was organised on May 28, 1894 and incorporated on June 7, 1894, by the Woman's Home Missionary Societies of South Bend's Methodist Episcopal churches — by the Indiana Methodist record, the first hospital founded by any branch of United Methodism in Indiana.
- 1894–2026The Nursing Schools
The Methodist line came first: Epworth Hospital and Training School — the training school is in the founding name of 1894 — became the Memorial Hospital School of Nursing at the 1945 renaming, and closed in 1988, ninety-four years after it opened…
- 1894–todayThe ethnic nests and societies: the Falcons, the West Side club, the Breezers — and this ground's thinner layer
The M. R. Falcons — Mieczyslaw Romanowski Falcons, Nest 4 — stand in the county's immigrant-societies record from 1894, and stand today at 3212 Keller Street, an active club and hall.
- 1896–1897Before the saucers: the 1896–97 airship wave, tested over this ground specifically
Tested negative over this ground, at newspaper strength: between mid-November 1896 and the end of April 1897 the American press carried the mystery-airship wave — more than 1,200 articles in over 400 newspapers in 41 states and six Canadian provinces, by the standard scholarly count…
- 1897–todayThe colour line and the parallel orders: exclusion, documented plain
Its founding prints with its variance whole: the order's accounts give a formal organisation in February 1897, and a first lodge meeting on 17 November 1898 at Masonic Hall on George Street in Cincinnati, the ritual copyrighted in September 1898 and the first Ohio charter in June 1899.
- 1898The Spanish-American War at the roster's strength
The county's war: St. Joseph County's Spanish-American War was fought by South Bend's companies of the 157th Indiana — the regiment the South Bend build follows as "Studebaker's Tigers and the two South Bend companies"…
- 1899The council as an institution, and its long servers
Until 1899 the boards of county commissioners exercised the county's fiscal powers essentially unchecked; the County Reform Act, approved March 3, 1899, created the county council in every Indiana county as a separately elected fiscal check on the commissioners…