On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

* 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, France-Scottish actor, director, and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

* 1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer ( d. 1938 )

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

* 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter ( d. 1900 )

* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and inventor ( d. 1939 )

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and composer ( d. 1936 )

* November 21 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker ( b. 1860 )

In 1860, Froude's wife Charlotte died ; in 1861, he married her close friend Henrietta Warre, daughter of John Warre, M. P.

Henrietta Szold ( December 21, 1860 – February 13, 1945 ) was a U. S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization.

Dr. Thomas Hill, the son of Thomas Hill, president of Antioch College from 1860 to 1862, and then of Harvard University from 1862 to 1868 and Henrietta Barker.

The Baumgardener's Covered Bridge was built in 1860 by Davis Kitch at a cost of $ 1, 284.

In 1860, Davis was among the richest cotton planters in the state.

Image: Andrew Jackson Davis. 003. jpg | Andrew Jackson Davis, about 1860

Farish was born in Mayersville, Mississippi the son of William Stamps Farish I ( 1843 – 1899 ) and Katherine Maude Power ( 1860 – 1931 ) and the grandnephew of Jefferson Davis.

The rule then remained in place for almost the next hundred years, and often led to Democratic National Conventions which dragged on endlessly, most famously at the 1860 convention, when the convention adjourned in Charleston without making a choice and reconvening in separate groups a short time later, and the 1924 convention, when " Wets " and " Drys " deadlocked between preferred candidates Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo for 103 ballots before finally agreeing on John W. Davis as a compromise candidate.

In the 1860 Democratic National Convention at Charleston, South Carolina, he advocated the nomination of Jefferson Davis ( voting for him on the first 57 ballots ) and opposed Stephen A. Douglas, and in the ensuing campaign he supported John C. Breckinridge.

Butler supported Davis as he believed that only a moderate Southerner could keep the Democratic party from dividing in 1860.

Davis was educated at the Western Military Institute, now Montgomery Bell Academy, which he attended from 1860 – 1861.

Andrew Jackson Davis, about 1860

May seems to have dropped out of the picture and by 1860 the paper was owned by the firm of P. Davis and Son.

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist and food manufacturer, founder of the Kellogg's Company ( d. 1951 )

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

* 1860 – Abner Powell, American baseball player ( d. 1953 )

* 1860 – Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator ( d. 1927 )

* 1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter ( b. 1860 )

* 1860 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician ( d. 1929 )

* 1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player ( d. 1932 )

* 1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician ( d. 1915 )

* Dare, Philip N. American Communes to 1860: A Bibliography.

* Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860 – 1914.

* 1860 – William Corless Mills, American museum curator ( d. 1928 )

* 1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, American pioneer ( d. 1931 )

* 1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player ( b. 1860 )

* 1927 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer ( b. 1860 )

* 1860 – Robert Bacon, American politician ( d. 1919 )

* 1860 – Elias M. Ammons, American politician ( d. 1925 )

* 1860 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer ( d. 1927 )

* 1860 – Susanna M. Salter, American politician ( d. 1961 )

* 1896 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer ( b. 1860 )

* 1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player ( b. 1860 )