Daily Report

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Birthdays

Cyrus Irving Ditty

20 years old today

Dwight Dwight Townsend

33 years old today

Mary Eunice Harlan

13 years old today

Hiram McCullough

46 years old today

Isaac Mendenhall

53 years old today

Wilbur Fisk Townsend

20 years old today

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees

32 years old today

John T. Wilkins

39 years old today

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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

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Documents

Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Is a Bowling Alley a Nuisance?,” September 26, 1859	09/26/1859
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Fourth Ward Reading-Room,” September 26, 1859	09/26/1859