Daily Report

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Birthdays

Edward Dickinson Baker

48 years old today

Martin Waltham Bates

73 years old today

George William Curtis

35 years old today

Nathan Allen Farwell

47 years old today

Alexander McNutt Hamilton

29 years old today

Timothy Otis Howe

43 years old today

James Henry Jarrett

27 years old today

Henry Smith Lane

48 years old today

Moses Fowler Odell

41 years old today

Wilson Shannon

57 years old today

Thomas Benton Smith

21 years old today

John Crawford Vaughn

35 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 York Times, “The Mint,” February 24, 1859	02/24/1859
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859	02/24/1859