Timelines for year 1892
Jesse James
When his assassin Robert Ford was murdered in 1892 by Edward O'Kelley, O'Kelley was pardoned due to a petition with over 7,000 signatures asking for his release.
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
When she was 30 (in 1892), Sir Henry Irving offered her a spot in his touring company. She turned him down to raise her children.
Charles Harris
His most famous musical composition is the song "After The Ball", written in 1892. The song was a flop at first, but became a huge hit when it was interpolated into the 1891 play, "A Trip To Chinatown", which was still running at the time. It has remained popular to this day as an example of the kind of popular music played in the 1890s. It was interpolated by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II into their classic 1927 musical, "Show Boat", to be sung at a climactic, poignant part in the story, and is always used in stage productions of the show. It was also used in the 1936 and 1951 film versions, but not in the 1929 part-talkie version.
William Holden
Family: Mother: Mary Beedle (nee Ball). Father: William Franklin Beedle, born 1892. Brother: Robert Westfield Beedle, born 1921; died January 1, 1944. Brother: Richard P. Beedle, born 1925.
Lynn Borden
She is a distant cousin of Lizzie Andrew Borden, aka "Lizzie Borden", the central figure in a notorious axe-murder case in Fall River, MA, in 1892, which gave rise to a popular limerick: "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41" (she was actually acquitted of the murders).
Irving Berlin
His first wife, Dorothy, was born in March, 1892. She died of typhoid fever and pneumonia.
Dave Coulier
Parents are Dave and Arlen (and they are still alive), grandparents are Theodore Coulier (1892-1971) and Miriam Coulier (1901-1998).
Clifton Webb
In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle (1869-1960), moved to New York with her beloved "little Webb," as she called him for the remainder of her life. She dismissed questions about his father, Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, a railroad ticket clerk, by saying, "We never speak of him. He didn't care for the theater." Webb and Maybelle lived together until her death at age 91. When Clifton's obsessive grieving for his mother continued on for well over a year, close friend Noel Coward, keeping their lengthy friendship in mind, is said to have remarked with a bit of exasperation, "It must be difficult to be orphaned at seventy." Webb never recovered from his mother's death. He made one film, then spent the remainder of his life in ill health and seclusion.
June Allyson
Her father, Robert Geisman, was born in Roanoke, VA on September 29, 1892 and died in Ventura County, California on April 19, 1983 at the age of 90. Her mother, Clara Josephine Provost, was born in New York, NY on October 21, 1897 and died on April 23, 1994 in Ventura County, California at the age of 97.
Dorothy Davenport
Daughter of actress Alice Davenport and actor Harry Davenport. Sister of actresses Ann Davenport (1892-1968) and Kate Davenport (1896-1954); half-sister of actor Arthur Rankin (1900-1947).
Sister of actresses Ann Davenport (1892-1968) and Kate Davenport (1896-1954); half-sister of actor Arthur Rankin (1900-1947).
Norman Phillips Jr.
His father, also named Norman Phillips (c. 1892 - 11 February 1931, Culver City) was also an actor.
James J. Corbett
World heavyweight boxing champion, 1892-1897. Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1990.
Emmett Dalton
The simultaneous bank robberies in Coffeyville, Kansas, on October 5, 1892, that resulted in the deaths of all the entire Dalton gang -- except for Emmett -- yielded a grand total of $21.98.
Tim Camarillo
Worked as a Development Associate for The Florence Crittenton Center one of the oldest nonprofit organization and group home for girls in the City of Los Angeles Established in 1892.