Daily Report

Thursday, October 29, 1857

Birthdays

Richard Snowden Andrews, detail

Richard Snowden Andrews

27 years old today

William Creighton, Jr., detail

William Creighton Jr.

79 years old today

Daniel Decatur Emmett, circa 1860, engraving, detail

Daniel Decatur Emmett

42 years old today

Thomas Langrell Harris, detail

Thomas Langrell Harris

41 years old today

Joseph Horace Lewis, detail

Joseph Horace Lewis

33 years old today

William Wallace Merrick, detail

William Wallace Merrick

20 years old today

Theodore Runyon, detail

Theodore Runyon

35 years old today

Stewart Taylor, photograph, 1859

Stewart Taylor

21 years old today

Robert Younger, detail

Robert Ewing Younger

4 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

Newspaper	Departure of Troops, Lynch Law in PA, Dilemma of the Kansas Shriekers	10/29/1857
Newspaper	Washington (DC) National Era, “Douglas’s Organ on Kansas,” October 29, 1857	10/29/1857
Newspaper	Washington (DC) National Era, “James Buchanan a Mystery to Himself,” October 29, 1857	10/29/1857
Letter	James Gillespie Birney to Gerrit Smith, October 29, 1857	10/29/1857
Newspaper	Washington (DC) National Era, “Reports of the Kansas Press,” October 29, 1857	10/29/1857