Birthdays

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Turns 56 on this date

William M. Lemen
Turns 25 on this date

Henry Hopkins Sibley
Turns 43 on this date

Bennett Henderson Young
Turns 16 on this date
Events
Science/Technology | Charles Darwin begins the final editing of his great work on evolution | 05/25/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Cleveland (OH) Herald, “You Don’t Know the People of Ohio,” May 25, 1859 | 05/25/1859 |