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 |