1890-1899: Timeline

A chronology of actions and the events they produced from 1890 through 1899.

1890

Alberta Lucile Hart is born. Later in life she takes on a male identity and lives as Alan L. Hart. See: Alberta Lucille Hart/Alan L. Hart: October 4, 1890-July 4, 1962.

Donald Hendry, one of the Americans caught up in a sex scandal in Württemberg, Germany, after returning to America, attends medical school from 1890 to 1892. See: Americans in Württemberg Scandal, 1888/Part 3.

1891

Grant Wood, the future artist, is born. See: Grant Wood: 1891-1942

June 19: Mascolo v. Montesanto, a civil suit involving completed "buggery" between two boys, is appealed in Connecticut.

1892

Alice Mitchell murders Freda Ward: Memphis, Tennessee

May: James G. Kiernan: "Heterosexual," "Homosexual"

1899

A. B. Holder: "A Peculiar Sexual Perversion Found Among North American Indians"