| Personal |
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Mary Brown dies in San Francisco, California |
| Personal |
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Moncure Conway moves back to America, settles in New York City |
| Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey dies in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Personal |
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Isaac Cook dies in Eureka Springs, Arkansas |
| Personal |
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David Davis dies in Bloomington, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Elihu Washburne dies in Chicago, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Gustave Philipp Koerner's wife dies |
| Personal |
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John Wentworth dies in Chicago, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Leonard Swett dies in Chicago, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Simon Cameron dies in Maytown, Pennsylvania |
| Legal/Political |
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John McAuley Palmer serves in the United States Senate |
| Personal |
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William Herndon dies at his home in Fancy Creek Township, Illinois |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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Moncure Conway returns to South Place Chapel in London |
| Personal |
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Ozias Mather Hatch dies in Springfield, Illinois |
| Personal |
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William Danenhower dies in Washington, DC |
| Personal |
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Burton Chauncey Cook dies in Evanston, Illinois |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Lyman Trumbull speaks at the People’s Party convention in Chicago, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Andrew Gregg Curtin dies in Bellefonte, Pennslyvania |
| Personal |
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Fulfilling one of her goals, Harriet Tubman opens a home to care for sick and impoverished African Americans |
| Personal |
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John Courts Bagby dies in Rushville, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Gustave Philipp Koerner dies in Belleville, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Lyman Trumbull dies in Chicago, Illinois |
| Personal |
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A supporter of the women's suffrage movement, Tubman speaks at the 1896 Rochester Convention |
| Personal |
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Moncure Conway moves back to New York City after his wife is diagnosed with cancer |
| Personal |
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Moncure Conway leaves America for Paris, France |
| Personal |
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Adele Cutts Douglas dies in Washington, DC |
| Personal |
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Joseph Medill dies in San Antonio, Texas |
| Personal |
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John McAuley Palmer dies in Springfield, Illinois |
| Personal |
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William Still dies in Philadelphia |
| Personal |
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Moncure Conway attends the Nathaniel Hawthorne centennial celebration in Concord, Massachusetts |