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Birthdays

Henry Bergh

1813-08-29 - 1888-03-12

William Gannaway Brownlow

1805-08-29 - 1877-04-29

Anna Ella Carroll

1815-08-29 - 1894-02-19

Cuvier Grover

1828-08-29 - 1885-06-05

Thomas Lawson

1789-08-29 - 1861-05-15

George Washington McCrary

1835-08-29 - 1890-06-23

Richard Rush

1780-08-29 - 1859-07-30

Elijah Veirs White

1832-08-29

Frederick Enoch Woodbridge

1818-08-29 - 1888-04-25

Luke Edward Wright

1846-08-29 - 1922-11-17

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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	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862

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Documents

Newspaper	St. Louis (MO) Republican, “Let the Jubilee be General,” August 29, 1858	08/29/1858
Letter	Richard James Oglesby to Abraham Lincoln, August 29, 1858	08/29/1858