Birthdays

James Edmund Bailey
Turns 36 on this date

John Anthony Copeland Jr.
Turns 24 on this date

Charles C. Davis
Turns 28 on this date

Thomas Bull Jacobs
Turns 46 on this date

George Godfrey Leland
Turns 34 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Religion/Philosophy | The cornerstone of New York City's new Catholic cathedral, Saint Patrick's, is laid | 08/15/1858 |
Documents
Letter | John B. Woods to William Still, August 15, 1858 | 08/15/1858 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Political Joking," August 15, 1858 | 08/15/1858 |
Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |