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Birthdays

Frederick William Benteen

1834-08-24 - 1892-06-22

Hiram Gregory Berry

1824-08-24 - 1863-05-02

Thomas Fenwick Drayton

1808-08-24 - 1891-02-18

John Day Easter

1830-08-24 - 1912-01-06

George Whitefield John

1839-08-24 - 1864-03-15

Edmund Ayres Maginniss

1832-08-24 - 1910-01-01

George Earl Maney

1826-08-24 - 1901-02-09

John Newton

1822-08-24 - 1895-05-01

Theodore Parker

1810-08-24 - 1860-05-10

James Redpath

1833-08-24 - 1891-02-10

George Hume Steuart

1828-08-24 - 1903-11-22

Marie Brose Tepe

1834-08-24 - 1901-05-01

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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	Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, "Lincoln and Douglas at Ottawa," August 24, 1858	08/24/1858
Letter	Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, August 24, 1858	08/24/1858