Birthdays

Blanche Kelso Bruce
Turns 18 on this date

Robert Christie Buchanan
Turns 48 on this date

Lewis Garrard Clarke
Turns 44 on this date

David Radnor Coover
Turns 27 on this date

James Fleming Fagan
Turns 31 on this date

Hiram Bronson Granbury
Turns 28 on this date

William Dean Howells
Turns 22 on this date

John Moore Leonard
Turns 26 on this date

Albin Francisco Schoepf
Turns 37 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | Five newspaper offices burn in Memphis, Tennessee fire | 03/01/1859 |
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 | New York Times, “Terrible Steamboat Disaster,” March 1, 1859 | 03/01/1859 |