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Birthdays

Chapman Vinson Brooks

37 years old today

George Walker Crawford

61 years old today

Ivy M. Duggan

28 years old today

William Lambert Gooding

8 years old today

Josiah Bushnell Grinnell

38 years old today

Paul Octave Hébert

41 years old today

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

36 years old today

David James Holmes

29 years old today

John Carmichael Jenkins

50 years old today

Horatio Collins King

22 years old today

Luther Crawford Ladd

16 years old today

Richard Van Boskirk Lincoln

37 years old today

Joseph King Fenno Mansfield

56 years old today

James Montgomery

45 years old today

John Smith Phelps

45 years old today

Richard Henry Whiteley

29 years old today

Levi Woodbury

70 years old today

Events

Legal/Political
Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate to
Legal/Political
Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives to
Legal/Political
Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate to
Personal
Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio to
Personal
Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State to