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Birthdays

Barnard Elliot Bee Jr.

1824-02-08 - 1861-07-22

Austin Blair

1818-02-08 - 1894-08-06

John Hepburn Campbell

1820-02-08 - 1895-04-12

Richard Stoddert Ewell

1817-02-08 - 1872-01-25

Amos Preston Gilbert

1841-02-08 - 1893-08-01

John King Jackson

1828-02-08 - 1866-02-27

Adam Rankin Johnson

1834-02-08 - 1922-10-20

Martin Kalbfleisch

1804-02-08 - 1873-02-12

John Alexander Logan

1826-02-08 - 1886-12-26

Andrew Gordon Magrath

1813-02-08 - 1893-04-09

Edwin Denison Morgan

1811-02-08 - 1883-02-14

William Tecumseh Sherman

1820-02-08 - 1891-02-14

Lawrence Taliaferro

1794-02-08 - 1871-01-22

James Watson Webb

1802-02-08 - 1884-06-07

James Alexander Williamson

1829-02-08 - 1902-09-07

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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
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

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Documents

Newspaper

Newark (OH) Advocate, “Abolition Threat of John P. Hale,” February 8, 1861

02/08/1861