Daily Report

Tuesday, February 28, 1860

Birthdays

Silas Benson Best

24 years old today

André Cailloux

35 years old today

Benjamin Davenport Chenoweth

36 years old today

Matthew Duncan Ector

38 years old today

Henry Stuart Foote

56 years old today

William Henry Miller

31 years old today

William Henry Miller

31 years old today

John Creed Moore

36 years old today

David Trotter Patterson

42 years old today

Samuel Simon Schmucker

61 years old today

William Eccleston Stewart

21 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	New York Herald, “Trouble among the Republican President Makers,” February 28, 1860	02/28/1860
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Fraudulent Voting,” February 28, 1860	02/28/1860