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 |