Daily Report

Thursday, December 08, 1859

Birthdays

August Belmont

46 years old today

Robert Bullock

31 years old today

William Downey

34 years old today

Clinton Bowen Fisk

31 years old today

Otis Gibson

33 years old today

Lewis Winans Ross

47 years old today

Henry Timrod

59 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, "Virginia Wants the Nation to Foot Her Bills," December 8, 1859	12/08/1859
Newspaper	Hartford (CT) Courant, "Arrest of a Militia Officer," December 8, 1859	12/08/1859
Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Gov. Seward and Harpers Ferry," December 8, 1859	12/08/1859