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Birthdays

Talbot Wilson Chambers

1819-02-25 - 1896-02-03

Robert Hall Chilton

1815-02-25 - 1879-02-18

Clement Anselm Evans

1833-02-25 - 1911-07-02

Reuben Ashford Finnell

1826-02-25 - 1915-03-09

Quincy Adams Gillmore

1825-02-25 - 1888-04-11

Benjamin Peffer Lamberton

1844-02-25 - 1912-06-09

Samuel Medary

1801-02-25 - 1861-11-07

Granville Ross Rider

1830-02-25 - 1913-01-01

David Tod

1805-02-25 - 1868-11-13

George Alfred Trenholm

1807-02-25 - 1876-12-09

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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	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Legal/Political	Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873

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Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “Kansas and the South,” February 25, 1857	02/25/1857
Newspaper	Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet; From Nicaragua; Union State Convention	02/25/1857
Letter	Thomas F. Page to William Still, February 25, 1857	02/25/1857