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Birthdays

Elizabeth Buffum Chace

1806-12-09 - 1899-12-13

John Cooper

1775-12-09 - 1848-02-18

Ephraim Ralph Eckley

1811-12-09 - 1908-03-27

Henry Sheffie Geyer

1790-12-09 - 1859-03-05

Thomas Saunders Gholson

1808-12-09 - 1868-12-12

John Jeremiah Jacob

1829-12-09 - 1893-11-24

William M. Line

1823-12-09 - 1905-05-09

Frederick Augustus Pike

1816-12-09 - 1886-12-02

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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	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
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	News of the Day	12/09/1857
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Runaway Slave in Brooklyn, N.Y.,” December 9, 1857	12/09/1857