Daily Report

Wednesday, October 13, 1858

Birthdays

Jeremiah W. Asher

46 years old today

Lafayette Curry Baker

32 years old today

Henry Haywood Bell

50 years old today

George William Brown

46 years old today

James Cook Conkling

42 years old today

George Purnell Fisher

41 years old today

Edwin Lycurgus Griffith

20 years old today

William Lyon

39 years old today

John Rock

33 years old today

Benjamin Wood

38 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	Quincy (IL) Whig, "The Friends of Hon. Abraham Lincoln," October 13, 1858	10/13/1858
Newspaper	New York Herald, "Exhausted to the Dregs," October 13, 1858	10/13/1858
Newspaper	New York Times, "Important From Mexico," October 13, 1858	10/13/1858
Book	Recollection by Carl Schurz, Quincy Debate, October 13, 1858	10/13/1858
Book	Recollection by Horace White, Quincy Debate, October 13, 1858	10/13/1858