Birthdays

Samuel Lewis Casey
Turns 38 on this date

Alexander Gilmore Cattell
Turns 43 on this date

Peter Cooper
Turns 68 on this date

James Johnson
Turns 48 on this date

Abraham Lincoln
Turns 50 on this date

Robert Ransom Jr.
Turns 31 on this date

Charles Carroll Walcutt
Turns 21 on this date

Henry Lawson Wyatt
Turns 17 on this date
Events
Science/Technology | Charles Darwin, busy in the preparation of his great work on the origin of species, celebrates his fiftieth birthday | 02/12/1859 |
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 | Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Marshall’s Posse,” February 12, 1859 | 02/12/1859 |