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Birthdays

John Wesley Allen

1838-08-12 - 1896-01-01

Stephen Baker

1819-08-12 - 1875-06-09

Daniel Davidson Bidwell

1819-08-12 - 1864-10-19

John Horace Forney

1829-08-12 - 1902-09-13

Samuel Stehman Halderman

1812-08-12 - 1880-09-10

Conway Wing Hillman

1856-08-12 - 1942-10-09

John Rodgers

1812-08-12 - 1882-05-05

William Price Sanders

1833-08-12 - 1863-11-19

John Clarke Young

1803-08-12 - 1857-06-23

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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	Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1855 to 11/24/1858
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

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Documents

Newspaper	Interesting from Kansas	08/12/1857
Letter	Letter from Charles Francis Himes to William Daniel Himes, August 12, 1857	08/12/1857
Letter	Hiram Wilson to William Still, August 12, 1857	08/12/1857