| mid-Jan | Purchases Glenmont, his home in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey. |
| Feb 24 | Marries Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio. |
| Mar-Apr | Honeymoons in Fort Myers, Florida, and keeps a set of notebooks, witnessed by Mina. |
| May 16-31 | Workers strike at the Edison Machine Works. |
| Spring | Is involved in negotiations to form the Edison United Manufacturing Company to act as a sales agent for his electric light manufacturing companies. |
| Moves to Glenmont. | |
| June 23 | Announces that the Edison Machine Works will relocate to the former site of the McQueen Locomotive Shop in Schenectady, New York. |
| Oct | Begins experiments on an improved phonograph. |
| Nov | Moves his laboratory to the Edison Lamp Works in East Newark (Harrison), New Jersey |
| Fall | Executes twenty patent applications relating to electric lighting. |
| Dec 30 | Becomes ill with pleurisy and is confined to Glenmont. |
