Daily Report

Thursday, December 17, 1857

Birthdays

Manning Ferguson Force, detail

Manning Ferguson Force

33 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Stansbury Gorsuch

37 years old today

Joseph Henry, detail

Joseph Henry

60 years old today

James Thadeus Holtzclaw, detail

James Thadeus Holtzclaw

24 years old today

Samuel Jones, detail

Samuel Jones

38 years old today

Frederick West Lander, detail

Frederick West Lander

36 years old today

John O'Neill, detail

John O'Neill

35 years old today

William Gaston Steele, circa 1864, detail

William Gaston Steele

37 years old today

No image yet available for this woman

Delia Ann Webster

40 years old today

John Greenleaf Whittier, detail

John Greenleaf Whittier

50 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, “Secretary Stanton’s Call for an Extra Session of the Kansas Legislature,” December 17, 1857	12/17/1857
Letter	William Brady to William Still, December 17, 1857	12/17/1857