Birthdays

Phineas Taylor Barnum
Turns 49 on this date

David Glasgow Farragut
Turns 58 on this date

John Henry Lease
Turns 27 on this date

Lemuel Gregory Olmsted
Turns 51 on this date

Jesse Bowman Young
Turns 15 on this date
Events
Legal/Political | A convention assembles in Wyandotte, Kansas to create a Kansas State Constitution | 07/05/1859 |
Science/Technology | American merchant captain discovers the Midway Islands | 07/05/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Terrible Tornado in Virginia,” July 5, 1859 | 07/05/1859 |