Birthdays

Lemuel Jackson Bowden
Turns 44 on this date

Charles Henry Davis
Turns 52 on this date

Henry Wager Halleck
Turns 44 on this date

Robert Roberts Hitt
Turns 25 on this date

Thomas Edwin Massey
Turns 37 on this date

William Alexander Richardson
Turns 48 on this date

James Phillip Sims
Turns 22 on this date

John Palmer Usher
Turns 43 on this date

James David Watters
Turns 25 on this date
Events
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 | New York Herald, “The Gila Gold Mines,” January 16, 1859 | 01/16/1859 |