Birthdays

Thomas Samuel Ashe
Turns 48 on this date

Henry Lewis Baugher
Turns 56 on this date

Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke
Turns 43 on this date

Samuel Colt
Turns 46 on this date

John Irvin Gregg
Turns 34 on this date

Isaac R. Merrill
Turns 46 on this date

Roger Atkinson Pryor
Turns 32 on this date

Lemuel Snively
Turns 26 on this date

Robert John Walker
Turns 59 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida | 07/19/1860 |
Education/Culture | Cornelius Conway Felton inaugurated as new President of Harvard University | 07/19/1860 |
Education/Culture | Hamilton College in Clinton, New York graduates seventeen men of the class of 1860 | 07/19/1860 |
Personal | Lizzie Borden born in Fall River, Massachusetts | 07/19/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “An Important Change,” July 19, 1860 | 07/19/1860 |
Newspaper | New York Times, “Sanitary Condition of the City,” July 19, 1860 | 07/19/1860 |