---

---

Birthdays

George Boardman Boomer

1832-07-26 - 1863-05-22

Henry Cousins Chambers

1823-07-26 - 1871-05-01

Alexander Nisbet

1777-07-26 - 1857-11-23

Joseph Augustine Scranton

1838-07-26 - 1908-10-12

Julian Monson Sturtevant

1805-07-26 - 1886-02-11

---

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

San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, “If a Republican President?,” July 26, 1859

07/26/1859