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1884 7/3/1884 City-County (now Brackenridge) Hospital opens in Austin; it is the oldest public hospital in Texas.
1884 11/28/1884 Texas Confederate Home for Veterans is chartered, in order to provide a home for disabled and indigent Confederate veterans.
1884 12/3/1884 Cattleman and outlaw Joseph Olney dies at Bowie as the result of an accident.
1885 2/7/1885 Cowboy song writer Charlie Siringo is born on Matagorda Island.
1885 2/20/1885 John Manning, a ranchman for the past eight years near Fort Concho, shot and killed Tom Green, known as "Concho Tom," near Monahans, after Green had kidnapped Manning's twelve year old daughter, who was rescued.
1885 2/24/1885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral of the U.S. Navy, is born in Fredericksburg. 1886 2/12/1886 Texas Telegraph and Telephone Company of Galveston files a charter, with capital stock valued at $100,000.
1886 3/21/1886 A shoot-out at the Jenkins Saloon, known as "the Tascosa Gunfight" leaves four dead.
1886 5/21/1886 Taylor County News reports severe crop damage caused by the year's record drought. All wheat, potato, oat and garden crops have died, and corn and cotton crops are in danger.
1886 10/12/1886 Hurricane and tidal surge of 15 feet from Matagorda Bay kill 250 in Indianola.
1886 10/25/1886 Texas State Fair opened in Dallas, and has grown to be one of the most popular state fairs in America.
1886 12/20/1886 Driskill Hotel opens in Austin as one of the premier hotels in Texas.
1887 12/15/1887 Fort Worth and Denver railway runs excursion train to encourage settlement and economic development of north Texas
1888 3/20/1888 Coke Stevenson, destined to be the 35th Governor of Texas, is born in Mason County.
1888 4/4/1888 Baseball great Tris Speaker, nicknamed "the Grey Eagle," is born in Hubbard.
1888 5/16/1888 The new State Capitol building at Austin is dedicated.
1888 5/18/1888 Capitol building in Austin is dedicated by Texas State Senator Temple Houston.
1888 7/2/1888 Two U.S, Democratic party factions, "the Jaybird-Woodpecker War" starts in for political control of Fort Bend County.
1888 7/27/1888 Randall County organized, though contested by big ranching elements.
1888 9/26/1888 J. Frank Dobie, Texas historian, folklorist and author, is born in Live Oak County, Texas.
1889 2/16/1889 Oil tycoon H. L. Hunt is born.
1889 11/7/1889 The Texas Hereford Association is organized in San Antonio, Texas in a boot shop.
1889 12/6/1889 Jefferson Davis, only President of the Confederate States, dies.
1890 1/30/1890 Louis Jordan is born in Fredericksburg; he becomes an All-American football player, and the first officer killed in World War I.
1890 2/4/1890 Fletcher Stockdale, acting governor for 34 days in the aftermath of the Civil War, dies in Cuero.
1890 3/11/1890 Texas governor and U.S. senator W. Lee O'Daniel is born in Malta, Morgan County, Ohio.
1890 5/15/1890 Pulitzer prize-winning writer Katherine Anne Porter is born at Indian Creek, Texas.