Daily Report

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Birthdays

Joseph Randolph Cockerill

41 years old today

Isaac Cole

35 years old today

Augustus Caesar Dodge

47 years old today

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings

43 years old today

Aaron Harding

54 years old today

William Shorten Henerey

32 years old today

William Brown McIlvaine

52 years old today

Shadrach Minkins

45 years old today

William Winter Payne

52 years old today

William Emmett Simms

37 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	New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Quick,” January 2, 1859	01/02/1859
Book	Recollection of Jesse W. Fell, Conversation with Abraham Lincoln in early 1859	01/02/1859