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Daily Report

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Friday, August 16, 1861

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Birthdays

Joseph Bradford Carr, detail

Joseph Bradford Carr

33 years old today

Henry Winter Davis, detail

Henry Winter Davis

44 years old today

No image yet available for this man

John Punchard Jewett

47 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

Edward Emile Leclerc

42 years old today

James Franklin Purvis, detail

James Franklin Purvis

27 years old today

Dickinson College Alumnus - No photograph currently available

John Severn Tyler

21 years old today

Events

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
Legal/Political
Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania 01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867

Documents

Newspaper
Chicago (IL) Tribune, “East Tennessee,” August 16, 1861 08/16/1861

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