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 |