Daily Report

Sunday, August 22, 1858

Birthdays

Frederick Augustus Conkling, circa 1860, detail

Frederick Augustus Cockling

42 years old today

Thomas Treadwell Davis, detail

Thomas Treadwell Davis

48 years old today

Joseph Gillespie, detail

Joseph Gillespie

49 years old today

William Selby Harney, detail

William Selby Harney

58 years old today

Nathaniel Harrison Harris, detail

Nathanial Harrison Harris

24 years old today

John R. McBride, Brady image, circa 1865, detail

John Rogers McBride

26 years old today

Joseph Anthony Mower, detail

Joseph Anthony Mower

31 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Henry Eshleman Oakes

34 years old today

George Stoneman, Jr., detail

George Stoneman Jr.

36 years old today

Edward Davis Townsend, detail

Edward Davis Townsend

41 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 Herald, “The Illinois Campaign,” August 22, 1858	08/22/1858
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Joseph O. Cunningham, August 22, 1858	08/22/1858
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Times, "The Campaign-- Douglas Among the People," August 22, 1858	08/22/1858