Daily Report

Thursday, September 02, 1858

Birthdays

Hiram Pitt Bennet, circa 1865, detail

Hiram Pitt Bennet

32 years old today

Thomas Holliday Hicks, engraving, detail

Thomas Holliday Hicks

60 years old today

Charles Truman Hotchkiss, detail

Charles Truman Hotchkiss

25 years old today

Henry Hotze, detail

Henry Hotze

25 years old today

Henry Miles Moore, detail

Henry Miles Moore

32 years old today

James Harrison Wilson, detail

James Harrison Wilson

21 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	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Little Giant," September 2, 1858	09/02/1858
Newspaper	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, "Douglas - Lincoln," September 2, 1858	09/02/1858
Newspaper	New York Evening Post, “The Senatorial Contest in Illinois,” September 2, 1858	09/02/1858