Daily Report

Wednesday, July 29, 1857

Birthdays

Elijah Babbitt, circa 1862, detail

Elijah Babbitt

62 years old today

Luigi Palma di Cesnola, circa 1900, detail

Luigi Palma di Cesnola

25 years old today

Thomas Corwin, detail

Thomas Corwin

63 years old today

Robert Emory, detail

Robert Emory

43 years old today

Alvan Cullem Gillem, detail

Alvan Cullem Gillem

27 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Matthew Henry Henderson

49 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Henry C. Hitner

15 years old today

James Blair Steedman, detail

James Blair Steedman

40 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Lemuel Todd

40 years old today

Clement Laird Vallandigham, detail

Clement Laird Vallandigham

37 years old today

Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “A Fugitive Slave Excitement in Philadelphia,” July 29, 1857	07/29/1857
Letter	Manual T. White to William Still, July 29, 1857	07/29/1857