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Birthdays

Joseph Randolph Cockerill

1818-01-02 - 1875-10-23

Isaac Cole

1824-01-02 - 1889-01-01

Augustus Caesar Dodge

1812-01-02 - 1883-11-20

Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings

1816-01-02 - 1897-08-03

Aaron Harding

1805-01-02 - 1874-12-24

William Shorten Henerey

1827-01-02 - 1871-09-23

William Brown McIlvaine

1807-01-02 - 1898-05-07

Shadrach Minkins

1814-01-02 - 1875-12-13

William Winter Payne

1807-01-02 - 1874-09-02

William Emmett Simms

1822-01-02 - 1898-06-25

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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	Samuel Galloway serves in the Thirty-fourth US Congress	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1857
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Legal/Political	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858

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Documents

Newspaper	New York Times, “Explosion of a Locomotive,” January 2, 1857	01/02/1857
Diary	Jan. 2, 1857, Diary William Henry Hart	01/02/1857
Letter	Mr. N. Coryell to William Still, January 2, 1857	01/02/1857
Newspaper	The London Times on Buchanan's Position.	01/02/1857