Birthdays

Richard Snowden Andrews
Turns 28 on this date

Daniel Decatur Emmett
Turns 43 on this date

Thomas Langrell Harris
Turns 42 on this date

Joseph Horace Lewis
Turns 34 on this date

William Wallace Merrick
Turns 21 on this date

Theodore Runyon
Turns 36 on this date

Stewart Taylor
Turns 22 on this date

Robert Ewing Younger
Turns 5 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
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "Freemen, Remember," October 29, 1858 | 10/29/1858 |
Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |