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Legal/Political	Sun, March 4, 1849 - Sat, March 3, 1855	William H. Bissell serves in the US House of Representatives
Legal/Political	Mon, January 12, 1857 - Sun, March 18, 1860	William H. Bissell serves as Governor of Illinois
Personal	Thu, April 25, 1811	William H. Bissell is born in Hartwick, New York
Legal/Political	Sat, February 2, 1850	William H. Bissell denounces seccessionism in speech to US House of Representatives
Personal	Sun, March 18, 1860	William H. Bissell becomes the first Illinois governor to die in office
Personal	Tue, February 16, 1858	William Guerrier of the Ward and Guerrier Company dies in an explosion in Wyoming
Personal	Tue, August 17, 1858	William Graham, former U.S. Congressman, dies at his farm near Vallonia, Indiana
Personal	Sat, August 28, 1858	William Fitzhugh Gordon, former Congressman from Virginia, dies in Albemarle County, Virginia
Personal	Sat, May 6, 1837	William Elisha Stoker is born in Chambers County, Alabama
Personal	Thu, October 8, 1840	William Danenhower marries Elizabeth Uber
Personal	Tue, February 22, 1820	William Danenhower is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Personal	Mon, May 28, 1894	William Danenhower dies in Washington, DC
Crime/Disasters	Tue, February 8, 1859	William and Mary College loses its main building to fire
Education/Culture	Fri, December 16, 1859	Wilhelm Grimm, of Grimm's Fairytales, dies in Berlin
Personal	Tue, April 16, 1867	Wilbur Wright, one of the two brothers who revolutionized human flight, is born in Indiana.
Personal	Wed, February 8, 1860	Wife of Henry Ward Beecher has narrow escape in carriage accident
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, November 2, 1859	Widespread violence in Baltimore as the state elections are held
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, May 11, 1856	Whitsunday or Pentecost
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, May 27, 1855	Whitsunday or Pentecost
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, May 27, 1860	Whitsunday or Pentecost
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, May 23, 1858	Whitsunday or Pentecost
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, May 31, 1857	Whitsunday or Pentecost
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, September 17, 1856	Whig National Convention opens in Baltimore
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, December 12, 1859	Whig Frederick Walker Lincoln, Jr. re-elected Mayor of Boston
Business/Industry	Sun, April 1, 1866	Western Union absorbs US Telegraph and takes control of virtually all the American telegraph industry
Crime/Disasters	Wed, July 11, 1860 - Thu, July 12, 1860	West Washington Market in New York City suffers severe damage in a midnight fire
Campaigns/Elections	Sun, December 16, 1860	Wendell Phillips speaks against mobs in Boston and almost causes a riot
Crime/Disasters	Fri, June 3, 1859 - Sun, June 5, 1859	Weeks of heavy rainfall bring serious flooding to the upper Mississippi
Crime/Disasters	Mon, June 20, 1859 - Fri, July 1, 1859	Weeks of dangerously high temperatures prevail in central California
US/the World	Mon, February 3, 1862	Watched by the U.S.S. Tuscarora, the Confederate warship Nashville sails from Southampton