Daily Report

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Birthdays

Silas Benson Best

25 years old today

André Cailloux

36 years old today

Benjamin Davenport Chenoweth

37 years old today

Matthew Duncan Ector

39 years old today

Henry Stuart Foote

57 years old today

William Henry Miller

32 years old today

William Henry Miller

32 years old today

John Creed Moore

37 years old today

David Trotter Patterson

43 years old today

Samuel Simon Schmucker

62 years old today

William Eccleston Stewart

22 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

Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Lincoln’s Flight to Washington,” February 28, 1861

02/28/1861