Event of Interest
Feb 9 US President Ulysses S Grant signs law resulting in US Army Signal Service’s establishment of its "Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce", later known as the National Weather Service
- Feb 10 City of Anaheim in California incorporates for the 1st time, but disincorporates after two years as the tax burden was too high
- Feb 10 The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) forms in NYC
- Feb 12 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
- Feb 12 Utah becomes the second territory in the United States to pass a law allowing women the vote, after Wyoming in 1869
- Feb 14 Esther Morris appointed US' first female in Justice of the Peace in South Pass City, Wyoming, after previous justice, R.S. Barr, resigned to protest passage of Wyoming Territory's women's suffrage amendment in 1869
- Feb 14 Seraph Young becomes the first woman to legally vote in the modern United States, two days after the Utah legislature passed a law allowing women the vote
- Feb 15 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minnesota
- Feb 23 Mississippi is readmitted to US after the Civil War
1st African American Congressman
Feb 25 Hiram R. Revels is sworn in as 1st African American member of Congress as US Senator from Mississippi (R)
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