John Brown Gordon (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
"Gordon, John Brown," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000313.
GORDON, John Brown, a Senator from Georgia; born in Upson County, Ga., February 6, 1832; attended private schools and the University of Georgia at Athens; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga.; engaged in coal mining; upon the outbreak of the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as captain of Infantry and rose to lieutenant general; resumed the practice of law in Atlanta, Ga.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1868; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1873; reelected in 1879 and served from March
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Edwin Cassander Manning (Kansas State Historical Society)

Obituary
Kansas State Historical Society, "Edwin Cassander Manning," Twentieth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka, KS: Kansas State Historical Society, 1916), 62-63.
Another life member of this Society passed from among us when death touched Edwin Cassander Manning, December 11, 1915. Mr. Manning was one of our strongest members. His interest in the Society he maintained through sickness and health until the day of his death. He served as our president in 1911 and has had a long period of service on our Board of Directors.

Augustus O. Hiester (Notes and Queries)

Obituary
William Henry Egle, "Obituary: Augustus O. Hesiter," Notes and Queries Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1895), 290-291
Augustus O. Hiester was born at Reading, November llth, 1808,and was the son of Gabriel and Mary Otto Hiester. When twelve years of age he was sent to Downingtown Academy, then in charge of Joshua Hoops, a Hicksite Quaker. Later he was sent to Lebanon and placed under the care or Rev. Mr. Ernst, a Lutheran minister, by whom in company with A. E Shulze, son of ex-Governor Shulze, he was prepared for college. He entered the freshman class at Dickinson in 1821, the year that President Mason was succeeded by William Neil, D.

Baltimore Excelsiors defeat Washington Potomacs in first intercity baseball game outside New York City

On a fine day in the capital, the best teams in Baltimore and Washington DC met on the "White Lot" behind the White House.  More than a thousand watched the Baltimore Excelsiors beat the Washington Potomacs 40-12.  The batting hero for Baltimore was 34 year old physician and third baseman John W.F. Hank, a Dickinson graduate of 1846. This was perhaps the first intercity baseball game played outside the New York area.  (By John Osborne)
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