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Friday, August 26, 1859
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Theodore Washington Brevard

Turns 24 on this date
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James Harlan

Turns 39 on this date
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Benjamin Grubb Humphreys

Turns 51 on this date
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John Auchincloss Inglis

Turns 46 on this date
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John Edward McCahan

Turns 27 on this date
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John McKinney

Turns 62 on this date
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Samuel James Powell

Turns 35 on this date

Events

Foreign Final resistance to the Russian conquest of the Caucasus ends with the capture of Chechen leader Shamil 08/26/1859

Documents

Newspaper Boston (MA) Liberator, “Meetings in Boston,” August 26, 1859 08/26/1859