1870-1880 1870 Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea published. 1870 15th Amendment gives blacks right to vote. 1870 John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Company, in Cleveland, OH. 1870 Robert E. Lee dies, October 12. 1871 Dr. B. F. Goodrich opens rubber factory in Akron, OH. 1871 Chicago fire of October 8-11 blamed on Mrs. O'Leary's cow. 1872 Susan B. Anthony leads protest for women at polling place. 1872 Yellowstone National Park created; first national park. 1873 Ulysses S. Grant takes oath on March 4 for second term of Presidency. 1873 Bellevue Hospital in NYC starts first school of nursing. 1875 Gold discovered in the Sioux holy grounds; Black Hills of South Dakota. 1875 First running of Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, May 17. 1876 Colorado admitted as 38th state on Aug 1. 1876 Custer makes his way into history at Little Big Horn in Montana. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell becomes 2nd man to invent telephone. The 1st, Elisha Gray, arrived at patent office 1 hour after Bell. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes takes oath on March 4 as 19th President. 1877 Thomas Alva Edison, invents phonograph. 1877 Crazy Horse dies in Nebraska prison from stab wounds. 1877 First commercial telephone exchange is in Boston. 1878 First electric street lighting anywhere is on Cleveland Public Square. 1878 Thomas Alva Edison, invents the electric light. 1879 John D. Rockefeller organizes the Standard Oil Trust.