Dashed left edge = started before October 1897 ·
Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond October 1897
Events in October 1897 1
1831 – 1897George Pullman (1831-1897)Born 3 March 1831Pullman was an American industrialist who invented the Pullman sleeping car and built a company town near Chicago to house his workers. A strike at his factory in 1894 became one of the most significant labor conflicts in American history.