Daily Report

Friday, May 16, 1873

Birthdays

John Ashmead, detail

John Wayne Ashmead

67 years old today

Alexander Robinson Boteler, circa 1870, detail

Alexander Robinson Boteler

58 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Charles Mifflin Boyd

47 years old today

Martin Robison Delany, detail

Martin Robinson Delany

61 years old today

William Henry Seward, circa 1860, detail

William Henry Seward

72 years old today

Edmund Kirby Smith, detail

Edmund Kirby Smith

49 years old today

Events

Legal/Political

Elihu Washburne serves as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France

03/17/1869 to 09/10/1877