GRANDMA SOLBERG WAS BORN 126 YEARS AGO TODAY

1887: The year Grandma was born:

On February 5 it snowed in San Francisco.  On February 8, the first ski club in the USA was started in Red Wing, Minnesota.

 

Chester Greenwood, of Maine, got the patent for earmuffs on March 13.

 

On April 10, President Lincoln was re-buried, with his wife, in Springfield, Illinois.

 

On June 21 Great Britain celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

 

On December 2, Charles Dickens was in New York and gave his first reading in the USA.

 

And, in 1887, the Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse published this photo (CLICK HERE) of the dock on the Mississippi River at La Crosse.