Daily Report

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Birthdays

Manning Ferguson Force

36 years old today

John Stansbury Gorsuch

40 years old today

Joseph Henry

63 years old today

James Thadeus Holtzclaw

27 years old today

Samuel Jones

41 years old today

Frederick West Lander

39 years old today

John O'Neill

38 years old today

William Gaston Steele

40 years old today

Delia Ann Webster

43 years old today

John Greenleaf Whittier

53 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

Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The Tempest Brewing at the North," December 17, 1860

12/17/1860