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Sunday, August 24, 1856

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Birthdays

Frederick William Benteen, detail

Frederick William Benteen

22 years old today

Hiram Gregory Berry, detail

Hiram Gregory Berry

32 years old today

Thomas Fenwick Drayton, detail

Thomas Fenwick Drayton

48 years old today

John Day Easter, detail

John Day Easter

26 years old today

George Whitefield John, detail

George Whitefield John

17 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Edmund Ayres Maginniss

24 years old today

George Earl Maney, detail

George Earl Maney

30 years old today

John Newton, detail

John Newton

34 years old today

Theodore Parker, detail

Theodore Parker

46 years old today

James Redpath, detail

James Redpath

23 years old today

George Hume Steuart, photograph, detail

George Hume Steuart

28 years old today

Mary Tepe, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1863, detail

Marie Brose Tepe

22 years old today

Events

Legal/Political
Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate 03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political
Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives 03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Slavery/Abolition
Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. 10/01/1854 to 10/01/1856
Legal/Political
Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate 03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political
Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress 03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857


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