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 |