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November 1889
Elizabeth Bisland becomes associate editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine. Bessie Bisland was born in St. Mary Parish and grew up mostly in Natchez. Her southern upbringing considered it vulgar for a woman to have her name in print so she refused bylines or used a pseudonym. In November her editors assigned her to break the Around the World in 80 Days record of Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg and share her experiences with Cosmopolitan readers. She boarded a train bound for Chicago on November 19. She reached San Francisco in four days and 20 hours. She spent New Years Eve in Ceylon misses connections in France but makes it back to New York in 76 days. In 1891 she marries Charles W. Wetmore, a wealthy Harvard graduate and corporation lawyer. She moved to Washington D. C. and joined the Women’s National Democratic Club and campaigned for college courses in home economics. After her husband’s death in the 1920s she moved to Charlottesville, Va. She died in January 1929 and left a will that would be contested in courts for years to come. It creates the Wetmore Clinic which cares for victims of tuberculosis in the New Orleans area. |
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| John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds that last two hours and sixteen minutes in Richburg, Miss. In July in what turns out to be the last bare knuckle championship in America. | The Onward Brass Band is formed and will be active until 1925. Nick LaRocca and Freddie Keppard are born. Both are trumpeters and band leaders. Songwriter Spencer Williams is born. |
Richard Koch (1889-1971) architect , photographer and preservationist. He received the first degree in architecture awarded by Tulane University and specialized in historic restoration. He received additional training in Paris, New York and Boston. He helped to establish the Arts and Crafts Club in the 1920s. In the 1930s Koch was appointed district officer of the Historic Buildings Survey, part of the WPA. | The Morris building is completed at the corner of Camp and Canal Streets by John A. Morris, a real estate developer and manager of the Louisiana State Lottery. It is 110 feet in height and is designed by Thomas Sully and Albert Toledano. It burns on September 1, 1900 but is rebuilt. | |||||||||
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