Birthdays

Barnard Elliot Bee Jr.
Turns 36 on this date

Austin Blair
Turns 42 on this date

John Hepburn Campbell
Turns 40 on this date

Richard Stoddert Ewell
Turns 43 on this date

Amos Preston Gilbert
Turns 19 on this date

John King Jackson
Turns 32 on this date

Adam Rankin Johnson
Turns 26 on this date

Martin Kalbfleisch
Turns 56 on this date

John Alexander Logan
Turns 34 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Personal | Wife of Henry Ward Beecher has narrow escape in carriage accident | 02/08/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Tenement Houses,” February 8, 1860 | 02/08/1860 |
Letter | Charles Billinghurst to Abraham Lincoln, February 8, 1860 | 02/08/1860 |