Daily Report

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Birthdays

Benjamin Franklin Brooke

39 years old today

Samuel Maxwell Harrington

56 years old today

Isaac McIIvaine

60 years old today

William Edward Miller

23 years old today

John Hovey Rice

43 years old today

Abram Joseph Ryan

21 years old today

William Holland Thomas

54 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

Letter	Samuel Gridley Howe to John Murray Forbes, February 5, 1859	02/05/1859
Newspaper	New York Times, "Mexican News," February 5, 1859	02/05/1859
Newspaper	Lawrence (KS) Herald of Freedom, “Crime is Crime,” February 5, 1859	02/05/1859