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| North America:The seventeenth Democratic national convention meets in Chicago to nominate William Jennings Bryan. He challenges the gold standard and champions the unlimited coinage of silver.
The eleventh Republican national convention meets in St. Louis to nominate William McKinley. |
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January 1896
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February 1896
In February of 1896 George Nicholson dies His widow and boss, editor of the Picayune follows him in death eleven days later. Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson catches pneumonia and dies at the age of 47. |
March 1896
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April 1896
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September 1896
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October 1896 |
November 1896
Murphy James Foster wins re-election as governor with 116,216 votes to 87,698 for John N. Pharr the Populist-Republican candidate. Foster needed to turn to the Democratic Regulars of New Orleans to win. |
December 1896
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| Henry J. Hearsey purchases Daily Advocate. The New Orleans Dock Board created. |
Artist Caroline Wogan Durieux (1896-1989). Printmaker and satirist. | Captain Thomas Paul Leathers (1816-1896) of the steam boat Natchez fame dies on June 13, 1896 at the age of 80 after being run over by a bicyclist on St. Charles Avenue. |
A third St. Charles Hotel built in Romanesque style was a favorite place for Mardi Gras balls and political meetings for 60 years. It was demolished in 1974. Vitascope Hall, what was believed to be the first movie house in America, perhaps the world, opens at the corner of Exchange Alley and Canal Street. Professor William T. Rock, Known as Pop Rock has shown over 60 titles, some lasting for over a minute, which he brought from New York. < /TD> | The Van Benthuysen-Elms Mansion is built in New Orleans for Yankee in Grey, Capt. Watson Van Benthuysen, II, CSA. , a relative by marriage of Jefferson Davis & Quartermaster of the Presidential convoy that fled Richmond in April, 1865. Van Benthuysen became a merchant & industrialist with interests in St. Charles streetcar line, telephone company & firm that bridged the Hudson at Poughkeepsie. Born in NY 1833, died here 1901. Granddaughter Mae Van Benthuysen. became Queen of Carnival 1902. His house at 3029 St. Charles Avenue served as German Consulate General 1931-1941. From here, Baron Edgar von Spiegel, novelist & U-boat Kapitan, informed Axis submarines of ship departures. Became John Elms family residence 1951. |
The settlement in Livingston Parish known as Arpadhon is the site of the largest rural Hungarian settlement in U.S. The settlers are attracted here by Charles Brakenridge lumber mill cut-over timber land to farm and raise strawberries.
Benjamin Franklin Flanders |
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