Birthdays
Samuel Riley Bird
Turns 32 on this date
Howell Cobb
Turns 45 on this date
William Hemsley Emory
Turns 49 on this date
Thomas Andrews Hendricks
Turns 41 on this date
James Kennedy Moorhead
Turns 54 on this date
Henry Bascom Ridgaway
Turns 30 on this date
Albert Ritchie
Turns 26 on this date
Peter Godwin Van Winkle
Turns 52 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Almost three hundred drown on Lake Michigan in an excursion steamer collision | 09/07/1860 |
| Education/Culture | Anna Mary Robertson, the future artist "Grandma Moses," is born in Greenwich, New York | 09/07/1860 |
| Education/Culture | In baseball, Union and Excelsior play one of the lowest scoring games on record, final score 7-4 | 09/07/1860 |
| US/the World | In Italy, Garibaldi enters Naples in triumph | 09/07/1860 |
| Campaigns/Elections | Senator Douglas's campaign swing reaches Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | 09/07/1860 |
| US/the World | The Prince of Wales' tour moves on to Toronto, capital of Upper Canada |
09/07/1860 to 09/12/1860 |
Documents
| Letter | Letter from William Tecumseh Sherman to D. F. Boyd, September 7, 1860 | 09/07/1860 |
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “Massachusetts Thoroughly Abolitionized,” September 7, 1860 | 09/07/1860 |