Daily Report

Friday, January 02, 1857

Birthdays

No image yet available for this man

Joseph Randolph Cockerill

39 years old today

African American Soldier - No photograph currently available

Isaac Cole

33 years old today

Augustus Caesar Dodge, detail

Augustus Caesar Dodge

45 years old today

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings, detail

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings

41 years old today

Aaron Harding, detail

Aaron Harding

52 years old today

William Shorten Henerey

30 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

William Brown McIlvaine

50 years old today

Shadrach Minkins

43 years old today

William Winter Payne

50 years old today

William Emmett Simms

35 years old today

Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858

Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “Explosion of a Locomotive,” January 2, 1857	01/02/1857
Diary	Jan. 2, 1857, Diary William Henry Hart	01/02/1857
Letter	Mr. N. Coryell to William Still, January 2, 1857	01/02/1857
Newspaper	The London Times on Buchanan's Position.	01/02/1857