Daily Report

Wednesday, December 16, 1857

Birthdays

Kinsley Scott Bingham, circa 1862, detail

Kinsley Scott Bingham

49 years old today

John Snyder Carlile, circa 1857, detail

John Snyder Carlile

40 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Alfred Creigh

47 years old today

John Ewen, detail

John Ewen

49 years old today

Samuel Garland, Jr., engraving, detail

Samuel Garland Jr.

27 years old today

Robert Selden Garnett, detail

Robert Selden Garnett

38 years old today

Henry Heth, detail

Henry Heth

32 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Thompson Holmes

77 years old today

Myer Strouse, detail

Myer Strouse

32 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

George T. Tyler

14 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, “Shocking Murder by a Female Slave,” December 16, 1857	12/16/1857
Newspaper	The Lecompton Convention	12/16/1857