“Admission of Oregon,” New York Times, February 14, 1859

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Admission of Oregon
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“Admission of Oregon,” New York Times, February 14, 1859, p. 4: 4.
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U.S. Postmaster-General Aaron V. Brown dies in office in Washington, DC

Aaron Venable Brown of Tennessee, the sitting United States Postmaster-General in the Buchanan Cabinet, died on this day in Washington, DC. He was a former Governor of Tennessee, law partner of James K. Polk, and had been appointed to the Cabinet in 1852 as reward for his years of loyal Democratic service. He was 63 years old at the time of his death. (By John Osborne)
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“Disunion,” Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, January 5, 1859

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Disunion
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“Disunion,” Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, January 5, 1859, p. 2: 1.
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Harriet Jacobs (American National Biography)

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Jean Fagan Yellin, "Jacobs, Harriet," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00839.html.
As a fugitive slave in the South, Jacobs hid for almost seven years in a tiny space under the roof of her grandmother's home. In June 1842 she escaped to Philadelphia. She was eventually reunited with her children in the North. In 1849 she joined an abolitionist circle in Rochester, New York.
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