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Birthdays

Alexander Blain Anderson

40 years old today

George Ashmun

55 years old today

Romeyn Beck Ayres

34 years old today

Clara Harlowe Barton

38 years old today

Daniel A. Beckley

26 years old today

William Plummer Benton

31 years old today

Milledge Luke Bonham

46 years old today

Walker Brooke

46 years old today

Richard Bennett Carmichael

52 years old today

Joseph Crane

56 years old today

William Henry Herndon

41 years old today

David Watts Hulings

66 years old today

Jesse Olds Norton

47 years old today

Stephen Clegg Rowan

51 years old today

Preston Smith

36 years old today

Thomas Alfred Smyth

27 years old today

William Thompson

38 years old today

Joseph Payson Wright

23 years old today

Martha Coffin Wright

53 years old today

William Sholl Young

34 years old today

Events

Legal/Political
Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate to
Legal/Political
Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives to
Legal/Political
Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate to
Personal
Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio to
Personal
Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State to