Daily Report

Friday, September 18, 1857

Birthdays

Willard Cutter, detail

Willard Cutter

20 years old today

Herschel Vespasian Johnson, engraving from a Brady image, detail

Herschel Vespasian Johnson

45 years old today

Andrew Galbraith Miller, detail

Andrew Galbraith Miller

56 years old today

Marcellus Augustus Stovall, detail

Marcellus Augustus Stovall

39 years old today

Henry Constantine Wayne, detail

Henry Constantine Wayne

42 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	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
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 Terrible Panic in Mississippi,” September 18, 1857	09/18/1857
Newspaper	Rev. John Angel James’s Opinion of the Dred Scott Decision	09/18/1857