Birthdays
James Sproat Brown
Turns 35 on this date
William Henry Butler
Turns 39 on this date
William Bowen Campbell
Turns 52 on this date
William Oliver Cornman
Turns 18 on this date
Frederick Douglass
Turns 41 on this date
John Rice Eden
Turns 33 on this date
George Franklin Edmunds
Turns 31 on this date
Warren Holden
Turns 42 on this date
Events
| Education/Culture | George Eliot publishes her best-selling three volume novel Adam Bede | 02/01/1859 |
| Business/Industry | New decimal standard of weight for grains comes into effect in the Liverpool Corn Exchange | 02/01/1859 |
| Slavery/Abolition | The New York State Anti-Slavery Convention meets in Albany and advocates the dissolution of the Union |
02/01/1859 to 02/02/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 35th U.S. Congress is sitting between early January and early March, 1859 |
01/05/1859 to 03/02/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Slave Market of New Orleans,” February 1, 1859 | 02/01/1859 |