Daily Report

Wednesday, May 16, 1860

Birthdays

John Ashmead, detail

John Wayne Ashmead

54 years old today

Alexander Robinson Boteler, circa 1870, detail

Alexander Robinson Boteler

45 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Charles Mifflin Boyd

34 years old today

Martin Robison Delany, detail

Martin Robinson Delany

48 years old today

William Henry Seward, circa 1860, detail

William Henry Seward

59 years old today

Edmund Kirby Smith, detail

Edmund Kirby Smith

36 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	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Visit the Mississippi,” May 16, 1860	05/16/1860
Newspaper	Recollection by Murat Halstead, Republican National Convention, May 16-18, 1860	05/16/1860 - 05/18/1860
Book	Recollection by Henry C. Whitney, Republican National Convention, May 16-18, 1860	05/16/1860 - 05/18/1860