Daily Report

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Birthdays

Alexander Cummings

49 years old today

Joseph Finegan

45 years old today

Norman Hall

30 years old today

Francis Jackson Merriam

22 years old today

John Anthony Nicholson

32 years old today

Stephen Hinsdale Weed

28 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	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Gov. Wise to Mrs. Child," November 17, 1859	11/17/1859
Newspaper	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Trial of the Harper's Ferry Insurgents," November 17, 1859	11/17/1859
Newspaper	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "The Plea Will Not Avail Them," November 17, 1859	11/17/1859
Newspaper	Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Reward for Fugitive Insurgents," November 17, 1859	11/17/1859
Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Brown's Gang," November 17, 1859	11/17/1859