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 |