Birthdays

Augustus Frank
Turns 33 on this date

Henry Byrd Lewis
Turns 33 on this date

John Ritchie
Turns 42 on this date

Henry Robinson Torbert
Turns 25 on this date

Elijah Catlin Wadhams
Turns 34 on this date
Events
US/the World | Estafania, Queen of Portugal, dies of diptheria in Lisbon, aged twenty-two | 07/17/1859 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The convention charged with creating a Kansas State Constitution is meeting in Wyandotte, Kansas |
07/06/1859 to 07/28/1859 |
Business/Industry | The sternwheeler "Chippewa" reaches to within twelve miles of Fort Benton on the Upper Missouri | 07/17/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “Conflagration in the Pike’s Peak Goldmines,” July 17, 1859 | 07/17/1859 |