Birthdays

Edward Dickinson Baker

1811-02-24 - 1861-10-21

Martin Waltham Bates

1786-02-24 - 1869-01-01

George William Curtis

1824-02-24 - 1892-08-31

Nathan Allen Farwell

1812-02-24 - 1893-12-09

Alexander McNutt Hamilton

1830-02-24 - 1880-09-07

Timothy Otis Howe

1816-02-24 - 1883-03-25

James Henry Jarrett

1832-02-24 - 1919-01-24

Henry Smith Lane

1811-02-24 - 1881-06-18

Moses Fowler Odell

1818-02-24 - 1866-06-13

Wilson Shannon

1802-02-24 - 1877-08-30

Thomas Benton Smith

1838-02-24 - 1923-05-21

John Crawford Vaughn

1824-02-24 - 1875-09-10

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 Times, “The Mint,” February 24, 1859	02/24/1859
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859	02/24/1859