Birthdays

William Gay Brown Sr.
Turns 58 on this date

Frances Adeline Seward
Turns 53 on this date

Thomas Coke Sharp
Turns 40 on this date

Adolf Wilhelm August Friedrich Steinwehr
Turns 36 on this date

John Renshaw Thomson
Turns 58 on this date

William Carlisle Wilson
Turns 29 on this date

Thomas John Wood
Turns 35 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Documents
Letter | David Davis to Abraham Lincoln, September 25, 1858 | 09/25/1858 |
Newspaper | New York Times, “Expansion of Russia,” September 25, 1858 | 09/25/1858 |
Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |
Book | Recollection by John M. Palmer, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 |
08/21/1858 to 10/15/1858 |