Daily Report

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Birthdays

Rush Elmore

41 years old today

Richard W. Johnson

33 years old today

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

53 years old today

James Madison Marvin

51 years old today

William Pape

10 years old today

Edward Alfred Pollard

29 years old today

John Locke Scripps

42 years old today

John William Clark Watson

52 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	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Terrible Catastrophe,” February 27, 1860	02/27/1860
Speech	Abraham Lincoln, Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860	02/27/1860