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Daily Report

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Thursday, August 25, 1859

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Birthdays

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Thomas Carroll Bailey

28 years old today

Clinton Levering Cobb, Brady image, detail

Clinton Levering Cobb

17 years old today

Percival Drayton, detail

Percival Drayton

47 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Louis Frederick Eichelberger

56 years old today

Bret Harte, circa 1890, detail

Francis Brett Harte

23 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Charles William Keesee

33 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
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

Documents

Letter
Thomas Garrett to William Still, August 25, 1859 08/25/1859

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