Birthdays

Hamilton Fish
Turns 50 on this date

Graceanna Lewis
Turns 37 on this date

Francis Sutton Livingston
Turns 20 on this date

Benjamin Addison Massey
Turns 39 on this date

John Eugene Smith
Turns 42 on this date
Patrick Henry Taylor
Turns 20 on this date

Frederic Winthrop
Turns 19 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
Newspaper | New York Times, "Douglas and Lincoln on the Stump," August 3, 1858 | 08/03/1858 |
Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |
Letter | Thomas J. Pickett to Abraham Lincoln, August 3, 1858 | 08/03/1858 |