Daily Report

Saturday, May 28, 1859

Birthdays

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, detail

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

52 years old today

Alpheus Baker, detail

Alpheus Baker

31 years old today

Charles Joseph Baker, engraving, detail

Charles Joseph Baker

38 years old today

Pierre G. T. Beauregard, Brady image, detail

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

41 years old today

William Birney, detail

William Birney

40 years old today

Sempronius Hamilton Boyd, detail

Sempronius Hamilton Boyd

31 years old today

William Alfred Buckingham, detail

William Alfred Buckingham

55 years old today

Basil Wilson Duke, circa 1875, detail

Basil Wilson Duke

21 years old today

Ephraim Thomas Carroll Richmond

16 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
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

Documents

Newspaper	Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "The Slave Trade and Slave Stealing," May 28, 1859	05/28/1859
Newspaper	(Concord) New Hampshire Statesman, “Expenses of the White House,” May 28, 1859	05/28/1859