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Birthdays

Ellison Capers

1837-10-14 - 1908-04-22

James Tracy Hale

1810-10-14 - 1865-04-06

Samuel Blanchard How

1790-10-14 - 1868-02-29

Preston King

1806-10-14 - 1865-11-12

George Middleton

1800-10-14 - 1888-12-31

William Milo Stone

1827-10-14 - 1893-07-08

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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

Diary	Diary Entry by Edmund Ruffin, October 14, 1857	10/14/1857
Letter	Charles Francis Himes to Helen Himes	10/14/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “The American Panic,” October 14, 1857	10/14/1857
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Crisis at Last,” October 14, 1857	10/14/1857
Newspaper	The Utah Troubles	10/14/1857