Birthdays
Samuel Benton Callahan
Turns 26 on this date
Benjamin Franklin Flanders
Turns 43 on this date
Julia Dent Grant
Turns 33 on this date
John McIntosh Kell
Turns 36 on this date
Horace Burton Strait
Turns 24 on this date
Lloyd Tilghman
Turns 43 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 |
| US/the World | U.S. Commissioner James Bowlin arrives in Paraguay to negotiate a commerce and navigation treaty | 01/26/1859 |