Daily Report

Tuesday, May 15, 1860

Birthdays

Laurence Simmons Baker

30 years old today

Thomas Leonidas Crittenden

41 years old today

Richard Schell

50 years old today

Jacob Thompson

50 years old today

Julia Ann Toombs

47 years old today

Isaac Ridgeway Trimble

58 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	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “The Great Mistake of the Buchanan’s Administration,” May 15, 1860	05/15/1860
Diary	Entry by Orville Browning, May 16, 1860	05/15/1860