Birthdays

Samuel Cushman Caldwell
Turns 23 on this date

Thomas Care
Turns 27 on this date

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
Turns 36 on this date

Adam Gilchrist
Turns 53 on this date

David McMurtrie Gregg
Turns 26 on this date

Charles Murray Harris
Turns 38 on this date

Benjamin Franklin Kelley
Turns 52 on this date

Thomas Overton Moore
Turns 55 on this date
Events
Legal/Political | The federal trial of Oberlin-Wellington rescuer Simeon Bushnell continues in Cleveland, Ohio |
04/06/1859 to 04/14/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “The Next Presidential Election,” April 10, 1859 | 04/10/1859 |