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FOOD HISTORY TIMELINE
1880 to 1884          -          Next

1880 The first successful shipment of frozen mutton made it to London from Australia, aboard the SS Strathleven.

1880 One farmer out of every four was a tenant farmer.  Of gainfully employed persons, 49 percent were engaged in agriculture.

1880 In JUne at the 1st International Miller's Exhibition in Cincinnati, Ohio, Washburn Crosby Co. of Minnesota (forerunner of General Mills) won 3 top medals for their flour, including the 'Gold Medal' for Superlative Flour. They adopted 'Gold Medal' as the name of their best flour.

1880 The population of the U.S. is now 50,189,209. Farmers are 49% of the labor force. There are about 4,009,000 farms, averaging about 134 acres.

1880 There are more than 160,000 miles of railroad in the U.S.

1880 A patent was issued for a glass milk bottle was issued to Warren Glass Works.

1880 Commander's Palace Restaurant opened in New Orleans.

1880 A.P. Abourne patented a method for refining coconut oil.

1880 Sir John Boyd Orr was born. A Scottish scientist and nutrition expert, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to eliminate world hunger.

1880 Lydia Maria Francis Child died. An American abolitionist and author of novels and children's books. She also wrote books of advice for women including 'The Frugal Housewife' (1829).

1880 E.W. 'Billy Ingram was born. Ingram was cofounder, with Walter A. Anderson, of the White Castle hamburger chain.

1880 The wholesale price of Lobster was 10 cents per pound.

1881 Clara Barton founded The American Red Cross in Washington D.C.

1881 James Harvey Logan of Santa Cruz, California developed the Loganberry, a cross between a red raspberry and a wild blackberry.

1881 Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was born. A famous dessert of Australian or New Zealand origin was named for her.

1881 Edwing Houston and Elihu Thomson patented a centrifugal separator, which could be used in separating milk.

1881 The Ice Cream Sundae was invented. Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, supposedly invented the Ice Cream Sundae, when he served a customer ice cream topped chocolate syrup (used to flavor ice cream sodas). It was a Sunday, and flavored soda water was not served on Sundays to respectable people.

1881 Lorenzo Delmonico, famed restaurateur died. Born 1813 in Marengo, Switzerland. In 1851 he joined his uncles in their catering and pastry shop in New York. He transformed the business into one of the most famous restaurants in the country.

1881 Dr. Satori Kato of Japan introduced the first instant coffee at the Pan American World Fair.

1882 Bela Lugosi (Bιla Ferenc Dezso Blaskσ) was born.  Best known for his role as the blood drinking vampire in the 1931 film 'Dracula'

1882 Alan Alexander Milne was born. Creator of Winnie the Pooh, the honey loving bear.

1882 Anna Pavlova was born. Birth of Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. A famous dessert of Australian or New Zealand origin was named for her. It is a meringue with whipped cream and fruit.

1882 The first shipment of frozen meat left Port Chalmers, New Zealand for Britain aboard the SS Dunedin of the Albion Line.

1882 Charles Darwin Died. Pioneering English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution. His works include 'Origin of Species' and 'The Descent of Man.'

1882
The first frozen mutton from New Zealand arrived in Britain.

1882 Henry Seely of New York City received the first American patent for an electric iron.

1882 Bela Lugosi born (aka Dracula).

1882 Felix Frankfurter, U. S. Supreme Court justice, was born.

1882 Swiss flour manufacturer Julius Maggi begins commercial production of the first bouillon cubes. He developed them so the poor had a cheap method for making nutritious soup.

1882 Modern cream separator invented.

1883 Roselle, New Jersey becomes the first town in the world to be lit up with Edison's incandescent light bulbs. The overhead wires powered 150 street lights, the railway station and about 40 houses.

1883 First national gathering of cattlemen called by U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture, George Loring. A permanent organization, The National Cattle Growers Association, is established at a second meeting in 1884.

1883 Oscar F. Mayer & Bros. was established.

1883 Garnet Carter was born. He invented miniature golf in 1926.

1883 The 'Ladies Home Journal' began publication.

1883 Peter Cooper died. American inventor and founder of the 'Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.' He also obtained the first American patent for the manufacture of gelatin. In 1895, a cough syrup manufacturer, Pearl B. Wait purchased the patent and developed a packaged gelatin dessert. Wait's wife, May David Wait named it Jell-O.

1883 Alfred Packer was convicted of cannibalism in Colorado. (Actually he was convicted of murder, since cannibalism was not against the law). He was sentenced to death, but was retried in 1886 and sentenced to 40 years. He was paroled in 1901, and died in 1907.

1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened. It took 14 years to build at a cost of $18 million, and was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.

1883 Gabriel Gustav Valentin died. This German-Swiss physiologist was the first to discover the digestive activity of pancreatic juice.

1883 Horlick's developed the process to dehydrate milk, and patented it in 1883, calling it Malted Milk. Horlick's originally produced a food for babies and invalid's, that could be shipped without spoiling.

1883 The quagga, a zebra-like mammal of southern Africa  became extinct when the last mare at Amsterdam Zoo died. They had been hunted to extinction.

1883 Elmer Maytag was born. Founder of the Maytag Co., washing machine manufacturer. One of his descendants was Fred Maytag II, whose Maytag Dairy Farms manufactures Maytag Blue Cheese.

1883 The Orient Express made its first run from Paris to Constantinople

1883 Laurence M. Klauber was born. Klauber was an American herpetologist and inventor who was a rattlesnake expert. If you want to know anything or everything about rattlesnakes, see his book ‘Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories and Influence on Mankind.’

1884
Ball Brothers Glass Mfg Co began producing fruit jars.

1884 Gregor Johann Mendel Died. Mendel was an Austrian botanist whose work was the foundation of the science of genetics. Working mainly with garden peas (some 28,000 plants over 7 years), he discovered what was to become known as the laws of heredity.

1884 Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio received a patent for an egg beater.

1884 Casimir Funk was born. Funk was a Polish-American biochemist who came up with the word 'vitamine' later changed to 'vitamin.'

1884 Adolphe Duglere died. A pupil of Careme, head chef of the Rothschild family, and head chef of the famous 19th century Paris restaurant, the Cafe Anglais.

1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick died. He is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper.

1884 L. Blue patented a hand corn sheller.

1884 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent for 'flaked cereal' (corn flakes). It was his brother Will Kieth Kellogg who became rich & famous by marketing the new cereal commercially.

1884 John Mayenberg, of St. Louis, Missouri, patented evaporated milk

1884 Percy Everitt patented a coin operated scale.

1884 William Fruen of Minneapolis, Minnesota patented an automatic liquid vending machine.

1884 John Simpson Chisum died. An American cattle rancher, in 1867 he blazed the Chisum Trial from Paris, Texas to New Mexico. He developed the largest cattle herd in the United States.

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