Birthdays

Frederick H. Beecher
Turns 17 on this date

William Laws Boswell
Turns 30 on this date

James Henry Lane
Turns 44 on this date

James John Patterson
Turns 20 on this date

John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn
Turns 47 on this date

Richard Wootton
Turns 66 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Documents
Letter | Edmund Turner to William Still, June 22, 1858 | 06/22/1858 |
Letter | John L. Scripps to Abraham Lincoln, June 22, 1858 | 06/22/1858 |
Newspaper | Louisville (KY) Journal, "The U.G. Railroad," June 22, 1858 | 06/22/1858 |