“Brooks and Sumner,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, December 6, 1860

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Brooks and Sumner
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“Brooks and Sumner,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, December 6, 1860, p. 2: 2.
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Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York murders Philip Barton Key in the street in Washington D.C.

Daniel Sickles shot and killed Philip Barton Key on a Sunday morning near Lafayette Park in Washington D.C. following his wife's confession the previous day of her protracted adultery with Key.   Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, nephew of Chief Justice Taney, and himself a U.S. District Attorney, had rented a house on 15th Street in the capitol for their assignations and it was near there that Sickles waited for him and shot him down.  (By John Osborne)
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Trial of Daniel Sickles for the murder of Philip Barton Key in Washington, DC, April 1859

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The Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for the murder of P. Barton Key, Esq., at Washington, D.C.
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Illustration Collections, Library of Congress
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Original illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, April 9, 1859, p. 232

Daniel Sickles murders Philip Barton Key in Washington DC, February 27, 1859

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Homicide of P. Barton Key by Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, at Washington, on Sunday, Feb. 27, 1859
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Original illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, March 12, 1859, p. 169

Teresa Baglioli Sickles, 1859, detail

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Teresa Baglioli Sickles
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Original illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, March 12, 1859, p. 168

Teresa Baglioli Sickles, 1859

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Teresa Baglioli Sickles
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Original illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, March 12, 1859, p. 168

Celebrated historian William H. Prescott dies of a stroke at his home in Boston

William Hickling Prescott, one of America's most famous historians, was struck down with a stroke in his library at his Beacon Hill home in Boston and died two hours later aged sixty-two. Almost blind since his college years at Harvard, he had produced remarkable works on the history and literature of Spain, especially as they concerned the New World at the time of Ferdinand and Isabella. His three-volume Conquest of Mexico gained him such fame that Prescott, Arizona was named for him. (By John Osborne)
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William Hickling Prescott, detail

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Prescott, Wm. H. (Historian)
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William Hickling Prescott

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Prescott, Wm. H. (Historian)
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