Daily Report

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Birthdays

John Minor Botts

57 years old today

Waldo Porter Johnson

42 years old today

George Washington Lee

27 years old today

Samuel Preston Moore

46 years old today

Samuel Wesley Scrivener

35 years old today

Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow

43 years old today

Cornelius Van Cleef

60 years old today

Elijah Ward

43 years old today

David Flavell Woods

22 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	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Greeley as an Orator,” September 16, 1859	09/16/1859
Speech	Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859	09/16/1859