Birthdays
Samuel Lewis Casey
Turns 36 on this date
Alexander Gilmore Cattell
Turns 41 on this date
Peter Cooper
Turns 66 on this date
James Johnson
Turns 46 on this date
Abraham Lincoln
Turns 48 on this date
Robert Ransom Jr.
Turns 29 on this date
Charles Carroll Walcutt
Turns 19 on this date
Henry Lawson Wyatt
Turns 15 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second regular session of the 34th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December and early March |
12/02/1856 to 03/02/1857 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Washington (DC) National Era, “Affairs in Kansas,” February 12, 1857 | 02/12/1857 |