Birthdays
Thomas E. Bramlette
Turns 41 on this date
Philip Auld Harrison Brown
Turns 16 on this date
Samuel Middleton Dickson
Turns 21 on this date
James Rood Doolittle
Turns 43 on this date
Charles James Thompson McIntire
Turns 28 on this date
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Turns 65 on this date
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy
Turns 42 on this date
Alonzo Jacob Ransier
Turns 24 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 35th Congress is in a ten-day holiday recess until January 5, 1858 |
12/24/1857 to 01/04/1858 |
Documents
| Letter | Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, January 3, 1858 | 01/03/1858 |
| Newspaper | New York Herald, "The Kansas Trouble in Congress," January 3, 1858 | 01/03/1858 |