Daily Report

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Birthdays

James Crook

23 years old today

Stephen Elliott

29 years old today

Arthur Middleton Manigault

35 years old today

Thomas Peck Ochiltree

20 years old today

Lorenzo Thomas

55 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

Letter	Ralph Waldo Emerson to Sarah Hathaway Forbes, October 26, 1859	10/26/1859
Letter	Lydia Maria Child to Henry Alexander Wise, October 26, 1859	10/26/1859
Letter	Lydia Maria Child to John Brown, October 26, 1859	10/26/1859
Newspaper	Carlisle (PA) American, “Arrest of a Supposed ‘Harper’s Ferry Insurrectionist,’” October 26, 1859	10/26/1859