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Birthdays

Lemuel Jackson Bowden

1815-01-16 - 1864-01-02

Charles Henry Davis

1807-01-16 - 1877-02-18

Henry Wager Halleck

1815-01-16 - 1872-01-09

Robert Roberts Hitt

1834-01-16 - 1906-09-20

Thomas Edwin Massey

1822-01-16 - 1910-01-01

William Alexander Richardson

1811-01-16 - 1875-12-27

James Phillip Sims

1837-01-16 - 1887-05-30

John Palmer Usher

1816-01-16 - 1889-04-13

James David Watters

1834-01-16 - 1908-03-29

William Lebbeus Whitney

1823-01-16 - 1899-01-02

Thomas R. Williams

1815-01-16 - 1862-08-05

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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
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Newspaper

New York Herald, “The Gila Gold Mines,” January 16, 1859

01/16/1859