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 |