Daily Report

Monday, October 11, 1858

Birthdays

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Huston Dashiell

37 years old today

Alfred Washington Ellet, detail

Alfred Washington Ellet

38 years old today

Elkanah Bracken Greer, detail

Elkanah Bracken Greer

33 years old today

African American Soldier - No photograph currently available

Asbury Johnson

10 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

William James Maclay

32 years old today

Hunter Holmes McGuire, detail

Hunter Holmes McGuire

23 years old today

Samuel McClung McPherson, detail

Samuel McClung McPherson

21 years old today

Levi Scott, detail

Levi Scott

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	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	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “Time Table by the Butterfield Overland Mail Route,” October 11, 1858	10/11/1858
Letter	James G. Wright to Abraham Lincoln, October 11, 1858	10/11/1858