Birthdays

Edmund Jackson Davis
Turns 31 on this date

John R. Effinger
Turns 23 on this date

George Washington Getty
Turns 39 on this date

Joseph Alexander Murray
Turns 43 on this date

Alexander Peter Stewart
Turns 37 on this date

Alfred Rudolph Waud
Turns 30 on this date

Joseph Worthington White
Turns 36 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
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 |
Newspaper | Ripley (OH) Bee, “What is Democracy?,” October 2, 1858 | 10/02/1858 |