Birthdays

Augustus Williamson Bradford
Turns 53 on this date

John Porter Hatch
Turns 37 on this date

John Latshaw Landis
Turns 21 on this date

Samuel Martin Magraw
Turns 50 on this date

Alexander Kelly McClure
Turns 31 on this date

Christopher Gustavus Memminger
Turns 56 on this date

Francisco Perea
Turns 29 on this date

William Trickett
Turns 19 on this date
Events
US/the World | American sailors on shore leave riot at the port of Colón in Panama | 01/09/1859 |
Crime/Disasters | Eighty-thousand bushels of rice burn in a Charleston, South Carolina fire | 01/09/1859 |
Legal/Political | The Patent Office assembles an "Advisory Board for Agriculture" in Washington D.C. |
01/03/1859 to 01/11/1859 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The second session of the 35th U.S. Congress is sitting between early January and early March, 1859 |
01/05/1859 to 03/02/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Memphis (TN) Appeal, “The Plans of the Opposition for 1860,” January 9, 1859 | 01/09/1859 |