Daily Report

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Birthdays

Isaac Erwin Avery

31 years old today

George Alexander Coffey

39 years old today

Rodolphus Holland Duell

35 years old today

Edgar Everett Hastings

13 years old today

Laura Smith Haviland

51 years old today

Samuel Jordan Kirkwood

46 years old today

Richard Lucian Page

52 years old today

Amy Kirby Post

57 years old today

John Winfield Wallace

41 years old today

William Wilkins

80 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	Hartford (CT) Courant, “Untitled,” December 20, 1859	12/20/1859
Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859	12/20/1859
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Capture of a Slaver with 300 Negroes,” December 20, 1859	12/20/1859