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Daily Report

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Sunday, August 12, 1860

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Birthdays

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Wesley Allen

22 years old today

Stephen Baker, circa 1862, detail

Stephen Baker

41 years old today

Daniel Davidson Bidwell, circa 1863, detail

Daniel Davidson Bidwell

41 years old today

John Horace Forney, detail

John Horace Forney

31 years old today

Samuel Stehman Haldeman, detail

Samuel Stehman Halderman

48 years old today

Conway Wing Hillman, circa 1867, detail

Conway Wing Hillman

4 years old today

John Rodgers, detail

John Rodgers

48 years old today

William Price Sanders, detail

William Price Sanders

27 years old today

John Clarke Young, detail

John Clarke Young

57 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

Newspaper
New York Herald, “A Crowd of Douglasites in the Mud,” August 12, 1860 08/12/1860

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