Daily Report

Monday, August 31, 1857

Birthdays

Goode Bryan, detail

Goode Bryan

46 years old today

James Adams Ekin, circa 1865, detail

James Adams Ekin

38 years old today

Joseph Smith Fowler, detail

Joseph Smith Fowler

37 years old today

Galusha Aaron Grow, circa 1858, detail

Galusha Aaron Grow

34 years old today

Homer Augustus Nelson, detail

Homer Augustus Nelson

28 years old today

John Thompson Nixon, detail

John Thompson Nixon

37 years old today

Pierre Soule, detail

Pierre Soulé

56 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	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

Documents

Letter	Letter from Allen Hersh to Charles Francis Himes, August 30, 1857	08/31/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Convention of the Southern New School Presbyterians,” August 31, 1857	08/31/1857