Daily Report

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Birthdays

George Gordon Meade

43 years old today

Jonathan Kenyon Peck

34 years old today

Noah Pinkney

12 years old today

Theodore Medad Pomeroy

34 years old today

Charles Shiels Wainwright

32 years old today

Alfred Newton Weir

18 years old today

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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
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Newspaper	(St. Louis) Missouri Republican, “Senator Douglas,” December 31, 1858	12/31/1858
Newspaper	New York Times, “Sleeping Cars upon Railroads,” December 31, 1858	12/31/1858