The 1890s
1891
- James Huff Stout introduces manual training and domestic science into
the Menomonie Public Schools through the Stout Manual Training School --
three instructors teach about 40 grammar and secondary students.
- Benjamin Harris is president.
- Wireless telegraphy begins.
- W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
- James Naismith invents basketball.
- Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" published.
1892
- Grover Cleveland elected president.
- Diesel patents internal combustion engine.
- Ellis Island opens in Upper New York Bay.
- First automatic telephone switchboard introduced.
1893
- Stout's new three-story manual training school building is ready for occupancy.
- World Exhibition held in Chicago.
- Henry Ford builds his first car.
1894
- Elected president of Menomonie Board of Education, J.H. Stout finances
the introduction of kindergarten into the three Menomonie grammar schools.
- Stout first elected to Wisconsin State Senate.
- Art department added to the Stout Manual Training School.
- Modern Olympic Games organized by Baron de Coubertin.
- Edison opens his Kinetoscope Parlor in New York.
- Kipling publishes "The Jungle Book."
1895
- Cuba fights Spain for independence.
- First professional football game played.
- Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" ballet first performed.
1896
- Knapp, Stout & Co., Company celebrates 50th anniversary.
- Nobel Prizes established.
- Klondike gold rush begins.
- Utah becomes 45th state.
1897
- The manual training school and public high school are destroyed by fire,
replaced with brick structures.
- Senator Stout appointed to University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
- William McKinley inaugurated president.
- J.J. Thomson discovers electron.
1898
- Stout re-elected to Senate.
- United States declares war on Spain over Cuba.
1899
- Kindergarten Training School opens to meet need for kindergarten teachers.
- Senator Stout finances beautification plan for schools and city.
- First magnetic recording of sound.
