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Birthdays

William James Bowdle

1834-10-08 - 1876-08-01

George Willis Foulke

1822-10-08 - 1850-03-04

Cyrus Franklin Guldin

1829-10-08 - 1856-11-29

John Milton Hay

1838-10-08 - 1905-07-01

Thomas Henry Hines

1838-10-08 - 1898-01-23

Albert Gallatin Hodges

1802-10-08 - 1881-03-16

Wells Andrews Hutchins

1818-10-08 - 1895-01-25

William A. Jayne

1826-10-08 - 1916-03-20

Clarke Lewis

1840-10-08 - 1896-03-13

William Hagy Ludwig

1808-10-08 - 1848-11-28

Matthew Whitaker Ransom

1826-10-08 - 1904-10-08

John Henninger Reagan

1818-10-08 - 1905-03-06

Nathaniel Barratt Smithers

1818-10-08 - 1896-01-16

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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

Washington (DC) National Era, “Lynching an Abolitionist in Mississippi,” October 8, 1857

10/08/1857