Daily Report

Saturday, July 17, 1858

Birthdays

Augustus Frank, circa 1864, detail

Augustus Frank

32 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Henry Byrd Lewis

32 years old today

John Ritchie, detail

John Ritchie

41 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Henry Robinson Torbert

24 years old today

Elijah C. Wadhams, detail

Elijah Catlin Wadhams

33 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	Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, "Prepare for the Fight," July 17, 1858	07/17/1858
Letter	Gustave Philipp Koerner to Abraham Lincoln, July 17, 1858	07/17/1858