Events from the year 1858 in the United States.
Incumbents
State governments
Events
- February 6 â A fight, the 1858 Congressional brawl, breaks out on the floor of the U.S. House between Representatives of the Northern and Southern states.
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)
- Unknown – Sarah Jim Mayo, Washoe basket weaver (died 1918)
Deaths
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