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Birthdays

Reuben Baxter Detrick

1827-08-27 - 1904-11-07

William Hayden English

1822-08-27 - 1896-02-07

Hannibal Hamlin

1809-08-27 - 1891-07-04

Emory Upton

1839-08-27 - 1881-03-15

James Alexander Walker

1832-08-27 - 1901-10-21

Roger Hanson Weightman

1827-08-27 - 1863-01-04

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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	Recollection by A.A. Terrell, Freeport, August 27, 1858	08/27/1858
Periodical	Boston (MA) Liberator, “Underground Railroad,” August 27, 1858	08/27/1858
Newspaper	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Faithful Witness,” August 27, 1858	08/27/1858
Letter	Joseph Medill to Abraham Lincoln, August 27, 1858	08/27/1858
Newspaper	New York Evening Post, "Senatorial Canvass in Illinois," August 27, 1858	08/27/1858