Events

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Date
Type Title
Personal Mary Brown dies in San Francisco, California
Personal Moncure Conway moves back to America, settles in New York City
Personal Theophilus Lyle Dickey dies in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Personal Isaac Cook dies in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Personal David Davis dies in Bloomington, Illinois
Personal Elihu Washburne dies in Chicago, Illinois
Personal Gustave Philipp Koerner's wife dies
Personal John Wentworth dies in Chicago, Illinois
Personal Leonard Swett dies in Chicago, Illinois
Personal Simon Cameron dies in Maytown, Pennsylvania
Legal/Political - John McAuley Palmer serves in the United States Senate
Personal William Herndon dies at his home in Fancy Creek Township, Illinois
Religion/Philosophy - Moncure Conway returns to South Place Chapel in London
Personal Ozias Mather Hatch dies in Springfield, Illinois
Personal William Danenhower dies in Washington, DC
Personal Burton Chauncey Cook dies in Evanston, Illinois
Campaigns/Elections Lyman Trumbull speaks at the People’s Party convention in Chicago, Illinois
Personal Andrew Gregg Curtin dies in Bellefonte, Pennslyvania
Personal - Fulfilling one of her goals, Harriet Tubman opens a home to care for sick and impoverished African Americans
Personal John Courts Bagby dies in Rushville, Illinois
Personal Gustave Philipp Koerner dies in Belleville, Illinois
Personal Lyman Trumbull dies in Chicago, Illinois
Personal A supporter of the women's suffrage movement, Tubman speaks at the 1896 Rochester Convention
Personal Moncure Conway moves back to New York City after his wife is diagnosed with cancer
Personal - Moncure Conway leaves America for Paris, France
Personal Adele Cutts Douglas dies in Washington, DC
Personal Joseph Medill dies in San Antonio, Texas
Personal John McAuley Palmer dies in Springfield, Illinois
Personal William Still dies in Philadelphia
Personal Moncure Conway attends the Nathaniel Hawthorne centennial celebration in Concord, Massachusetts