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Birthdays

Samuel Read Anderson

1804-02-17 - 1883-01-02

George Childs Burling

1834-02-17 - 1885-12-24

William Lewis Dayton

1807-02-17 - 1864-12-01

Francis Jay Herron

1837-02-17 - 1902-01-08

William Ward Orme

1832-02-17 - 1866-09-13

William Farrar Smith

1824-02-17 - 1903-02-28

Elikim Persons Walton

1812-02-17 - 1890-12-19

Phillip Alexander Work

1832-02-17 - 1911-03-17

John Wright

1777-02-17

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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 African Slave Trade and the Law in the South,” February 17, 1859

02/17/1859