Daily Report

Thursday, August 12, 1858

Birthdays

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Wesley Allen

20 years old today

Stephen Baker, circa 1862, detail

Stephen Baker

39 years old today

Daniel Davidson Bidwell, circa 1863, detail

Daniel Davidson Bidwell

39 years old today

John Horace Forney, detail

John Horace Forney

29 years old today

Samuel Stehman Haldeman, detail

Samuel Stehman Halderman

46 years old today

Conway Wing Hillman, circa 1867, detail

Conway Wing Hillman

2 years old today

John Rodgers, detail

John Rodgers

46 years old today

William Price Sanders, detail

William Price Sanders

25 years old today

John Clarke Young, detail

John Clarke Young

55 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 Herald, "Newly Discovered Gold Mines," August 12, 1858	08/12/1858
Letter	Gustave Philipp Koerner to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1858	08/12/1858