Daily Report

Wednesday, May 27, 1857

Birthdays

Alfred Horatio Belo, detail

Alfred Horatio Belo

18 years old today

Amelia Bloomer, detail

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

39 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Neff Coombs

34 years old today

John Gray Foster, detail

John Gray Foster

34 years old today

Robert Frederick Hoke, detail

Robert Frederick Hoke

20 years old today

Julia Ward Howe, photograph, circa 1861, detail

Julia Ward Howe

38 years old today

Richard Watson Humphriss, detail

Richard Watson Humphriss

21 years old today

George Washington Johnson, detail

George Washington Johnson

46 years old today

Edwin Gray Lee, detail

Edwin Gray Lee

21 years old today

John Quincy Marr, detail

John Quincy Marr

32 years old today

Samuel Franklin Miller, circa 1864, detail

Samuel Franklin Miller

30 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Smith

81 years old today

Cornelius Vanderbilt, photograph, detail

Cornelius Vanderbilt

63 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	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
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “Emancipation of Dred Scott and Family,” May 27, 1857	05/27/1857
Letter	G. S. Nelson to William Still, May 27, 1857	05/27/1857
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Southern Rights," May 27, 1857	05/27/1857