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List of events
Events from the year 1858 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : Andrew B. Moore (Democratic )Governor of Arkansas : Elias Nelson Conway (Democratic )Governor of California : J. Neely Johnson (Know Nothing) (until January 8), John B. Weller (Democratic ) (starting January 8)Governor of Connecticut : Alexander H. Holley (Republican ) (until May 5), William A. Buckingham (Republican ) (starting May 5)Governor of Delaware : Peter F. Causey (Know Nothing)Governor of Florida : Madison S. Perry (Democratic )Governor of Georgia : Joseph E. Brown (Democratic )Governor of Illinois : William Henry Bissell (Republican )Governor of Indiana : Ashbel P. Willard (Democratic )Governor of Iowa : James W. Grimes (Whig ) (until January 13), Ralph P. Lowe (Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Kentucky : Charles S. Morehead (Know Nothing)Governor of Louisiana : Robert C. Wickliffe (Democratic )Governor of Maine : Joseph H. Williams (Republican ) (until January 6), Lot M. Morrill (Democratic ) (starting January 6)Governor of Maryland : Thomas W. Ligon (Democratic ) (until January 13), Thomas H. Hicks (Know Nothing)/(Republican ) (starting January 13)Governor of Massachusetts : Henry Gardner (Know Nothing) (until January 7), Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican ) (starting January 7)Governor of Michigan : Kinsley S. Bingham (Republican )Governor of Minnesota : Samuel Medary (Democratic ) (until May 24), Henry H. Sibley (Democratic ) (starting May 24)Governor of Mississippi : William McWillie (Democratic )Governor of Missouri : Robert Marcellus Stewart (Democratic )Governor of New Hampshire : William Haile (Republican )Governor of New Jersey : William A. Newell (Republican )Governor of New York : John Alsop King (Republican ) (until end of December 31)Governor of North Carolina : Thomas Bragg (Democratic )Governor of Ohio : Salmon P. Chase (Republican )Governor of Pennsylvania : James Pollock (Whig ) (until January 19), William F. Packer (Democratic ) (starting January 19)Governor of Rhode Island : Elisha Dyer (Republican )Governor of South Carolina : Robert Francis Withers Allston (Democratic ) (until December 10), William Henry Gist (Democratic ) (starting December 10)Governor of Tennessee : Isham G. Harris (Democratic )Governor of Texas : Hardin R. Runnels (Democratic )Governor of Vermont : Ryland Fletcher (Republican ) (until October 10), Hiland Hall (Republican ) (starting October 10)Governor of Virginia : Henry A. Wise (Democratic )Governor of Wisconsin : Coles Bashford (Republican ) (until January 4), Alexander W. Randall (Republican ) (starting January 12)
Lieutenant Governors
Events
Ongoing
Births
January 6 – Albert Henry Munsell , painter, teacher of art and inventor of the Munsell color system (died 1918 )
January 9 – Elizabeth Gertrude Britton , botanist (died 1934 )
January 11 – Harry Gordon Selfridge , department store magnate (died 1947 )
February 6 – Jonathan P. Dolliver , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1900 to 1910 (died 1910 )
February 15 – John Joseph Montgomery , glider pioneer (died 1911 )
February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman , Native American author, physician, reformer and co-founder of Boy Scouts of America (died 1939 )
February 28 – Richard P. Ernst , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1921 to 1927 (died 1934 )
March 9 – Gustav Stickley , furniture designer and architect (died 1942 )
March 12 – Adolph Ochs , newspaper publisher (died 1935 )
March 24 – Elia Goode Byington , newspaper proprietor, editor, and manager (died 1936 )
March 30 – DeWolf Hopper , musical theater performer (died 1935)
April 23 – Leonor F. Loree , railroad executive (died 1940 )
April 29 – Georgia Hopley , journalist, political figure and temperance advocate (died 1944 )
June 17 – Mary F. Hoyt , first woman appointed to the U.S. federal civil service , in 1883 (died 1958 )
June 20 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt , African American author, essayist and political activist (died 1932 )
June 28 – Otis Skinner , actor (died 1943 )
July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville , editor and writer (died 1924 )
August 18 – Thomas S. Rodgers , admiral (died 1931 )
September 1 – Andrew Jackson Zilker , philanthropist (died 1934 )
September 12 – J. H. Smith , politician and pioneer (died 1956 )
September 30 – Estelle M. H. Merrill , journalist (died 1908 )
October 2 – Emma Amelia Cranmer , prohibition reformer and suffragist (died 1937 )
October 7 – Joseph E. Ransdell , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1913 to 1931 (died 1954 )
October 12 – John L. Sullivan , heavyweight boxer (died 1918)
October 15 – William Sims , admiral (died 1936 )
October 27 – Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909, 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 (died 1919 )
October 30 – Wilson Eyre , architect (died 1944 )
November 8 – Lawrence Yates Sherman , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1913 to 1921 (died 1939)
November 21 – Charles A. Towne , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1900 to 1901 (died 1928 )
November 26 – Katharine Drexel , Roman Catholic foundress, first American canonized as a saint , in 2000 (died 1955 )
December 15 – Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye , biographer (died 1923 )
December 24 – Harriet Pritchard Arnold , author (died 1901 )
December 25 – Herman P. Faris , temperance movement leader (died 1936)
December 31 – Harry Stewart New , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1917 to 1923 (died 1937 )
Deaths
See also
References
^ "Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, 1858" . Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2009-10-27 .Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (Vol. II) compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904.
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